Alimentari Zorzone – Baci di Zorzone

The counter is that of a mountain grocery, with local cheese and cured meats and the tobacco counter, no. 3 in the municipality in the register of the Customs and Monopolies Agency. Alongside it there is the range sold under the Baci di Zorzone brand, which according to the website now includes biscuits, rediscovered recipes from 1926-27, jams, chutneys, spreads, baked goods, teas and herbal teas, gift boxes and a liqueur.

On 1 October 2026 the online shop listed 35 products. Among the rediscovered recipes are the Cavrec de Zurzu', walnut biscuits from a 1927 recipe, and the Stelle Alpine del Menna, made with cornmeal, butter and Zorzone honey, from a notebook dating from 1926: according to La Voce delle Valli, the recipes were found by Samantha's husband in an old shopping notebook from the 1920s left in the shop. There are also jams with dialect names, Marmelada de Bignaga, de Fregu' and de Persèc, that is apricot, strawberry and peach, the Zorzonella hazelnut spread and the Baciottella, a caciotta-type cheese made from raw milk.

The biscuit was born in 2023, for the shop's twentieth anniversary. Samantha Palazzi, who worked as a nursery-school teacher before opening the grocery, wanted a biscuit to celebrate her customers, inspired by the ones her grandmother Emma used to bake at home and give to anyone passing by or coming home from work. The sources do not agree on the recipe: the online shop presents the classic Baci as born «from grandmother Emma's original recipe», while Samantha told BergamoNews that she never found it and created a new one, in the same spirit, with a pastry chef from the valley. Valbrembanaweb describes them as inspired by the Baci di Alassio.

Success came through social media. The videos filmed in the village, in Bergamasque dialect, also made the rest of the larder known, such as boiled potatoes with Baciottella, and on Monday evenings the profile hosts a live broadcast with a guest, a well-known personality or a figure from the village; in May 2026 BergamoNews counted more than 14,000 followers on Instagram. In January 2025 a challenge launched on social media gave birth to the fifth Bacio: the winning recipe, announced on 17 February, was to be made by the Pasticceria La Sirena in Serina, whose pastry chefs sat on the jury, and it is now in the online shop; for Easter 2024 came the Cavret duls de Zurzu', a cake shaped like a young goat, the dialect nickname of Zorzone's inhabitants, sold to order.

On 22 August 2026 the hamlet hosted the first Sagra dei Baci di Zorzone, organised with the Pro Loco, the Alpini and Fanti veterans' groups and the sports club; the programme included a photo exhibition in the shop on the people of Zorzone past and present and, outside the window, a large heart for souvenir photos and lovers' padlocks.

The hours are those published on the official website. The shop is closed on Sundays and on Wednesday afternoons; on the other days it takes a long midday break and reopens at 17. For orders, the liqueur and gift boxes the website asks you to write or call: the mobile 333 7209649 also answers on WhatsApp, the landline is 0345 95329.

From the website you can buy biscuits, jams, teas, the liqueur, boxes and the book; the clothing line with the Baci di Zorzone logo, made up of T-shirts, polo shirts and sweatshirts, and the liqueur can also be ordered by writing or calling. The website offers gift boxes to companies and is looking for bars and shops that want to become resellers.

If you come to the village you will find the products right at the counter. In 2023 La Voce delle Valli reported that the biscuits had already been sent as far as Switzerland, and in 2024 the Easter Cavret reached Frankfurt.

Zorzone is reached from the main village along the municipal road of via Capriana, which starts in the centre near the Piazzale degli Alpini. Without a car there is the Arriva–Bergamo Trasporti S50e shuttle, which climbs from piazza Tiraboschi in a quarter of an hour to contrada Santi, via Gasparelli and piazza Caduti del Lavoro, from Monday to Saturday only.

By car, OpenStreetMap shows two car parks less than 300 metres from the shop as the crow flies. The Museo dei Minerali e della Miniera is a few dozen metres away: the AREU register places the defibrillator at the museum entrance on the same via Pascusa, about 70 metres from the shop.