Cotechino is a cured meat produced since old times, once it was a "poor" sausage in fact it was usually arranged with vegetables soup and legumes soup.
Fine grained pork rind is minced separately, then the medium grained lean muscle is added together with the other ingredients: "sweet" Cervia salt, sterilised Tellicherry pepper,a pinch of chilli pepper and cinnamon, peppercorns.
All the ingredients are mixed with the addition of Sangiovese wine without any chimical additive which might facilitate the production at the expence of the final taste.