Since 1353, the Conti Serego Alighieri, descendants of the poet Dante, have cultivated their estates in Valpolicella with love and care, specialising in wine and other traditional agricultural products of the area to make a range of high quality foods for the table. 

This fine variety of rice, particularly well suited to the making of risottos, comes from ancient rice fields that once belonged to the Serego Alighieri family sited in the heart of the traditional production zone on the plains south of Verona and bordering the province of Mantua.