Fagiolo Rosso Scritto del Pantano di Pignola
Pantano di Pignola Red Bean
A few kilometres from Potenza, around the Pantano di Pignola, the Maddalena mountains close a basin into a natural amphitheatre, and the microclimate inside it is exact: July, August and September never pass 30 degrees and the humidity sits around 70 percent. The clay-silt soil drains well and yields heavily. The plant climbs; the seed is round to ovoid, beige with the dark red streaking that gives it its name, scritto, written.
Designation
- Certification
- Slow Food Presidium
- Category
- Fruit, vegetables and cereals, fresh or processed
Where it is made
above 600 m around Pignola, Potenza province
How it is made
After the Second World War the beans gave way to livestock, and the young left for the cities or for the chemical industry that came into the area.