Viani cured meats
From San Gimignano to the world
We export to more than 30 countries.
Since 2016, we have exported to the United States, under the USDA/APHIS approval the American market requires, bringing Tuscan cured meats to international tables too.
The same standards that apply in San Gimignano are what let us clear the strictest controls abroad: a Finocchiona PGI that arrives on the other side of the ocean is still identical to the one made here.
4 slicing lines
Exports to more than 30 countries
USDA/APHIS approval
25,000-square-meter plant
Viani cured meats: certified and traceable quality
The evidence, not the words
Our quality is verified by third parties, not promised by us. We are certified to the most widely recognised international standards:
IFS Food and BRC Global Standard for Food Safety — the two food safety benchmarks required by international retail and export markets
CSQA
PRODUCT CERTIFICATION
CERTIFICATE NO. 57572
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STANDARD
ISO 22005:08
TRACEABILITY IN
AGRI-FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS
Deli products from Tuscan Supply Chain
USDA/APHIS approval
export to the United States since 2016
EC establishment code
Alongside these sit the two designations behind our flagship products: Prosciutto Toscano PDO (we have belonged to the Consortium since it was established in 1990) and Finocchiona PGI (among the producers who pushed for its recognition).
Viani cured meats, from Tuscany onward
Tuscan pork, traced from farm to slice
The meat in our Prosciutto Toscano PDO comes from pigs born, raised and slaughtered in Italy, in the regions within the PDO ham circuit.
Every animal is identified, every step is documented. For us, traceability is not a certificate on the wall; it is being able to say, for every product, exactly where it came from. For the buyer, that is the difference between trusting and knowing.
Viani Cured Meats: a story that starts in 1922
Four generations, the same trade.
It all started in 1922, in Certaldo, when Sollecito opened his butcher shop: skilled hands, good raw material, a trade. Since then, we have passed the work down from generation to generation, without ever moving its centre: Tuscan cured meats, the tie to this land, a way of producing that holds together old recipes and today’s tools.
Today we are structured and certified cured meat producers. We have a family history behind us and a quality built over time, not just claimed in words. That is what holds it all together: the 1922 workshop and our plant today do the same trade, only with different tools.
Our first hundred years
1922
Sollecito Viani opens the first butcher shop with an artisan workshop in Certaldo. This is where it all begins.
1940s–50s
The workshops double in number, and Alvaro joins his father’s business
Late
1950s
Alvaro builds the first structured workshop with an attached slaughterhouse, right under the family home.
1973
The first industrial facility opens in Certaldo. Over time, Fabio and later Marta, Alvaro’s children, join the family business.
Late
1980s
The process to recognise Prosciutto Toscano as a PDO begins, and Viani joins from the start.
1994
Construction begins on the new Viani facility, moving from Certaldo to San Gimignano, from the province of Florence to that of Siena.
1997
In January, the new facility opens in Cusona, in the countryside of San Gimignano: large, modern, highly organised.
1997
Prosciutto Toscano PDO production begins, following recognition of the designation the year before.
2002
Quality becomes a certified system, later expanding to IFS, BRC and ISO 22005 certifications for traceability of cured meats made with pork born and raised in Tuscany.
2005
The first two clean-room slicing lines are added to the facility.
2011
A new production wing of around 8,000 sq m opens, dedicated solely to producing and ageing dry-cured hams: technologically advanced, and the first of its kind in the region.
2015
Finocchiona becomes PGI. We have produced it for as long as we can remember, and we were among those who pushed for the recognition.
2016
We receive USDA/APHIS approval to export aged and cooked ham to the United States.
2018
A department dedicated solely to ham deboning is set up; in 2024 it is fully relocated, renewed, and approved for export to the USA.
2024
We receive USDA/APHIS approval to export lightly aged products to the United States: Finocchiona can now reach America too.
The Viani facility
in San Gimignano
More space, same method
We did not grow by breaking with the past; we grew by organising it better. The original workshop evolved into a first, a second, and finally a third new facility, with clean-room slicing lines and dedicated space for curing dry hams. But we still age the leg the way we always have, in the same air, on the same timeline.
There is only one logic: bring together the salumi craft of the past and the production capacity of today, so tradition and control work on the same side, not against each other. For us, technology exists to protect the trade, not to replace it.
We'll be waiting for you at the table.
We are not just a cured meats producer. We are a hundred years of the same family, now in its fourth generation. We save recipes that risked disappearing, and we bring them into a structure able to carry them far.
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