WHO WE ARE

Born from the ground up.
April 2025.

OUR STORY

Born from the ground up.
April 2025.

Riva & C. srls was founded in April 2025 in Cortazzone, a village of seven hundred souls on a ridge in the province of Asti, surrounded by oak forests and vineyards that have been producing extraordinary things, quietly, for centuries.

We work with our own network of certified foragers operating in the Monferrato hills, and complement this with carefully selected Italian and European suppliers when needed, always maintaining full transparency on origin, territory, and traceability.

Our commercial focus is on export, with wholesale supply to resellers, restaurants, and hotels across Piedmont and Italy. We do not sell directly to the end consumer.

Our ambition reaches beyond a single product. Riva & C. was founded to promote the gastronomic excellences of Piedmont as a whole. The truffle is our current focus, chosen for the sheer uniqueness of the product, but it is the beginning of a wider story.

OUR MISSION

"The truffle is a small luxury — precious, yet accessible. A scent of the earth that reconnects us to our origins."

Our mission, in two lines.

Beyond the scent, our work is built on process. In a trade defined by opacity — where the rarity and volatility of the product make consistency genuinely hard to achieve — we treat method, standardisation, and traceability as our true competitive advantage. What nature makes difficult to standardise, we standardise through discipline.

PHILOSOPHY

In the age of AI,
nature still decides.

The truffle cannot be farmed, rushed, or optimised. You find it at dawn, with a dog, in a forest — and it is the truffle that decides whether it wants to be found. There is no app, no algorithm, no shortcut.

In a world increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence, the truffle is a quiet act of resistance. A reminder that the most extraordinary things still depend on the slow walk of a person and their animal, and on the ever-surprising discovery of a buried treasure.

Riva & C. is built on this conviction. We believe transparency, traceability, and a genuine respect for the land are not marketing claims — they are the only way to do this right.

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