About us

A cocktail of perspectives, a creative ensemble of passionate storytellers, a team of diverse professionals united by their love for food and wine.

RETROGUSTI is an international project born to reveal the hidden “aftertastes” in food and wine culture, exploring its roots, values and lesser-known traditions through original and captivating storytelling.

Through the details and connections that enrich the bond with food and wine, RETROGUSTI brings to light the wonderful complexity of food and wine culture, leveraging an online magazine and a network for organising thematic events.

Editorial Information

Retrogusti is a project of Retrogusti ETS (Tax Code 94338210480).

Publication registered at the Court of Florence no. 6238 dated 03/03/2026.

Editor-in-Chief: Angelo Loreto

Retrogusti is about connections.

Connections with the land, with what it produces and with those who make it.

Connections between those who tell the stories and those who are passionate about them.

Above all, it is the thread that weaves an invisible tapestry as it winds through places, products and people united by the same desire for discovery.

Through the details and connections that enrich the bond between food and wine, Retrogusti brings to light the wonderful complexity of this relationship. Made of encounters, small gestures, great intuitions, handed-down traditions, and everyday passion.

Retrogusti, a laboratory of food and wine relationships.

Angelo Loreto

Angelo Loreto

I was born in Campania, I live in Puglia. As a child, the essays at school earned me the highest…

Irene Chiarugi

Irene Chiarugi

Aquarium, like Retrogusti. 

Ilaria Burgassi

Ilaria Burgassi

I have always thought that a person is the mirror of their own passions and that to know them, the…

Francesca Concas

Francesca Concas

I am a Sardinian living in Florence. I love cultural exchanges, the sea, travel, border places, and unexpected stories. Food,…

Nunzio Scavo

Nunzio Scavo

I live on passions, dreams, and projects, driven by admiration for all that is beautiful.

Franco Peluso

Franco Peluso

With the sun of Puglia in my heart, I am always in search of new gastronomic experiences to live and…

Filippo Lazzerini

Filippo Lazzerini

Convinced, like Carmelo Bene, that every biography is "incredibly risky, imaginary, and real at the same time," I have been…