Worldwide Pariani is known for their top quality nuts and nut products. The founder, Mattia Pariani , began his love affair with Italian DOP hazelnuts (tonda gentile trilobata ) while studying at the university of Turin where his dissertation on hazelnut oil won the National Innovation Prize. Not satisfied with spending a lot of time on research and writing theses, Mattia started his own business. He bought the best hazelnuts, and he focused on the extraction and bottling of its own oil from them, the Piemonte hazelnuts (arguably the best in the world!) and he quickly gained a reputation as the ultimate artisan producer of products around Italian nuts. Pastry chefs kneel for them. The passion of this nutty professor is clearly visible in all Pariani products. Taste his Crema Pariani IGP and you will go nuts! PS Say 'top notch nuts' ten times without stumbling in ten seconds and win a prize!