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Simple.
We didn't change the recipe. We use the ingredients you'd expect from a real Italian bake, in proportions that have worked for a hundred years. What's on the label is what's in the bag — nothing more, nothing made up.
Our Story
Where Dorellini begins.
A small Italian snack. One town in Puglia. Two of us who couldn't stop thinking about it.
What are Dorellini
An old tradition, in eight flavors.
Dorellini come from a tradition that runs deep in Puglia — a region in the south of Italy where the day is built around simple things done well, and where good food has always been a reason to gather. They belong to that world: small golden rings — Dorellini means 'little golden ones' — that have always been there to share, at a celebration or simply on an ordinary afternoon.
Their ring shape is not by chance — it echoes a wedding band, a small symbol of unity and good fortune. Passed around long tables at family gatherings, these crunchy rings have always carried a wish of joy and abundance.
Today Dorellini bring that tradition into everyday life. Eight flavors, six savory and two sweet — oven-baked in Puglia, made with simple ingredients, and made to fit anywhere: an aperitivo with friends, a lunchbox, a desk at the office, the drive home.
Where we are
Altamura.
Altamura is where it all begins. Our office is here, we live here, and whatever happens to Dorellini — every box, every flavor, every email we answer — starts in this town.
It is a real place in southern Puglia: quiet, and a little stubborn about its traditions. Altamura has been known for its bread for centuries — a bread so tied to this land that it carries a protected name of its own. Wheat runs through the character of the place, and that same care for simple, well-made things is the ground Dorellini grew from.
We didn't set out to invent anything. We grew up in this town, with these flavors on our own tables, and we wanted to carry them further — out to the world, without losing where they came from.
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The roots
The recipe came first.
The recipe behind Dorellini isn't new. It goes back to 1927 and to Sante Barile, who began making white-wine taralli in Puglia — one of the oldest and best-loved recipes in the south of Italy. It was never a complicated thing: flour, white wine, oil, a little salt, and the patience to bake it slowly until each ring turned golden and crisp.
What made it worth keeping was the care, and the care was handed down — from Sante to his sons, Giuseppe and Saverio, and on to his grandchildren today. Three generations, one recipe, kept faithfully. For most of that near-century it never needed a name: it belonged to one family, to one region, to the people who had grown up with it.
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Where it began
How we got here
It started with something we couldn't quite accept. A snack this good — this much a part of how we grew up — was known to almost no one beyond our own region, treated like a small local secret. We didn't think it deserved to stay one.
So we set out to change that: to take something we had loved at our own tables for as long as we could remember, and bring it to the world in a form that belongs to today. A modern brand, eight flavors chosen with care, and underneath all of it the same recipe we had always known. We never wanted to reinvent Dorellini — only to share them properly, with anyone who might come to love them too.
It is still the same idea we started with.
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What we believe
Three things, really.
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Always right.
There's always a reason for a Dorellino — a coffee in the morning, a glass of wine at six, a friend at the door, a long afternoon at the office. The right snack for any moment, as we like to say.
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Shared.
In Puglia, these rings were never a snack you ate alone. They were offered, passed around, shared at the table. Our box holds 36 single-serve bags — because there's always someone who wants one too.
The right snack for any moment.
Six savory, two sweet. All oven-baked in Puglia.
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