Venchi

The Venchi story goes all the way back to 1800. The first chocolate from this house saw the light of day in the Piedmont region. Silviano Venchi, a young ambitious man, had a passion for chocolate from an early age. He grew up in Turin and enjoyed the smells of the chocolate makers and bakeries that wafted through the streets there. Sometimes he would hide in the kitchens to see how the cakes, the breads and also the chocolate were made. No wonder he later opened his own shop in 1878. Silviano was known for not enjoying his products per se, but rather the faces of the customers when they were tasting them. Today, Venchi has become one of the world's most famous and delicate chocolate makers. To this day, the house still works according to the procedures and with the ingredients that Silviano wrote and used. Almost everything is still done by hand.