Frogmore Street, since 1976 · Italian quarter, Abergavenny · 50 years in one shop
01873 268160 · info@carpaninis.co.uk
Carpaninis Frogmore Street · Est. 1976 Browse the shop
1976 to 2026 Fifty years on Frogmore Street · Italian quarter, Abergavenny

Carpaninis. Frogmore Street, since 1976.

Angelo and Maxine Carpanini opened the doors at number 44 in 1976, with a passion to share the work of independent Italian producers with the people of Wales. Their son Marco runs the next chapter. Three generations of Carpaninis on the same family board, on the same street, for half a century.

1976Angelo and Maxine open at 44 Frogmore Street
3Generations: Angelo, Maxine, Marco
50Years in one shop, 2026 the half-century
Build a hamper Our own brand
Carpaninis emporium interior, 44 Frogmore Street, Abergavenny
44 FROGMORE STREET · SINCE 1976 Two doors from Il Gusto. Three from Casa Bianca. The Italian quarter of Abergavenny.
1976Angelo & Maxine open
50Years, one shop, one street
88Lines on the shelves
5Food Hygiene Rating, Monmouthshire
MADE BY CARPANINIS · ABERGAVENNY · SINCE 1976

Our own brand. The spine of the shop.

Eight lines we make and bottle ourselves, alongside the Italian imports. Welsh gin distilled to a family recipe, a slow organic rum, the hand-painted Splatter olive oil, the bronze-die Paccheri, the Tagliatelle, the Belgian chocolates we send out by the box, the Venezia Sun frame. The own brand is what separates a Frogmore Street hamper from any other deli’s.

Carpaninis Welsh Gin
Own brand

Carpaninis Welsh Gin

Lemon & Honey, 70cl, distilled for the shop

£30
Carpaninis Welsh Rum
Own brand

Carpaninis Welsh Rum

Organic, 70cl, slow and dark

£30
Splatter Handcrafted EVOO
Own brand

Splatter Handcrafted EVOO

White Splatter, 500ml, painted by hand

£30
Venezia Sun
Own brand

Venezia Sun

Tortoise, champagne, black. Our own frame.

£50
Artisan Paccheri
Own brand

Artisan Paccheri

Bronze-die pasta, 500g, our recipe

£9
Artisan Tagliatelle
Own brand

Artisan Tagliatelle

Ribbon pasta, 250g, slow-dried

£7
Assorted Belgian Chocolates
Own brand

Assorted Belgian Chocolates

315g, the gift the locals send south

£25
Basil-flavoured Italian EVOO
Own brand

Basil-flavoured Italian EVOO

Italy-shaped bottle, 100ml

£9
THE HAMPER BENCH · AT THE BACK OF THE SHOP · SINCE THE EARLY 1980s

Build a hamper, wrapped on the counter, while you wait.

Tell us the size. Walk the shop. Pick anything you like off the 88 lines on the shelves, from the Welsh Gin to the Italian Cantucci, from a 500g of Paccheri to a Venezia Sun frame. Set the budget. We arrange, ribbon and finish the hamper on the counter, in front of you, before you leave. Maxine has run the hamper bench through every Christmas since the bench was first installed.

Smallest
A bottle, a chocolate, a wrap. From £25.
Christmas
Booked in from October. Ribbon and tag on the day.
Festival weekend
Third weekend of September, when Abergavenny fills.
Anywhere in the UK
Wrapped, boxed and posted from Frogmore Street.
Email about a hamper
Carpaninis Cantucci and Vin Santo gift box, a typical hamper inclusion

Cantucci & Vin Santo · one of the bench’s most-built hamper cores.

SOURCED IN ITALY · SOLD ON FROGMORE STREET

The imports. Named producers, in the back room.

Beside the own-brand spine sits the wall of Italian imports the family has sourced personally for half a century. Borgo de’ Medici from Tuscany. Olive oil from Puglia. Sardinian sweets. The kind of provenance you get because the buying trip is run by a Carpanini.

Cantucci & Vin Santo
Italian import

Cantucci & Vin Santo

Fig and walnut biscuits with Tuscan dessert wine

Pesto & Penne
Italian import

Pesto & Penne

Genovese pesto, bronze-die penne, a Wednesday supper

Cacio e Pepe set
Italian import

Cacio e Pepe set

Pecorino, peppercorns, the pasta to carry them

Garlic & Chilli Oil
Italian import

Garlic & Chilli Oil

Italy-shaped 100ml, the most-given small gift

THREE GENERATIONS · ONE FROGMORE STREET ADDRESS · 1976 TO 2026

One family. Fifty years. The same Frogmore Street door.

Angelo Michael Carpanini and Maxine Jean Carpanini opened number 44 in 1976. Their son Marco John Paul Carpanini joined the board on the day the new family company was filed at Companies House in April 2026. The Welsh-Italian Carpanini surname travelled to Wales with the Bracchi diaspora, from the Apennine borderlands of northern Italy to the Cynon, Rhondda and Usk valleys, a generation before. Forty-four Frogmore Street is the Abergavenny chapter of that story.

1976
Angelo and Maxine Carpanini open the doors at 44 Frogmore Street. Italian imports onto a Welsh high street.
1980s
The build-your-own hamper bench is installed at the back of the shop. It has not moved since.
1990
Marco John Paul Carpanini is born. The next generation, on the same street.
2010s
The Carpaninis-branded spirits range begins. Welsh Gin, then Welsh Rum, then the Splatter EVOO.
2023
Food Hygiene Rating Very Good (5), Monmouthshire County Council.
April 2026
Carpanini Group Ltd and Carpanini Retail Ltd incorporated. Angelo, Maxine and Marco named on both boards. The succession in writing.
2026
Fifty years on Frogmore Street. The half-century year.
The Carpaninis shop, Abergavenny

CARPANINIS · ESTABLISHED 1976 · ANGELO, MAXINE, MARCO

FROM THE 2016 SHOP TOUR, BY A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
“Maxine has design and visual merchandising skills to rival the pros. El Capitan of the front of house.”
From a family-member shop-tour blog, 2016. The same hand has dressed the windows every season since.
WHAT FROGMORE STREET DOES, THAT NO ONE ELSE DOES

The own-brand emporium with the hamper bench at the back.

A deli on its own is one thing. An Italian import shop is another. What Carpaninis has built over fifty years is the rare third thing: a shop where roughly a quarter of the 88 lines on the shelves carry the family’s own packaging, and the hamper bench at the back wraps those own-brand lines together with the imports onto a single wooden tray, on the counter, while you wait.

  • Own-brand spirits. Carpaninis Lemon and Honey Welsh Gin, Organic Welsh Rum. Distilled for us, in Wales, in 70cl bottles with the Frogmore Street wordmark on the label.
  • Splatter EVOO. The White and Black Splatter Handcrafted Extra Virgin Olive Oils. Each bottle is hand-painted, 500ml, our own packaging on Pugliese oil.
  • The hamper as a service. Size, walk, choose, budget, wrap. Run continuously from the early 1980s. The Christmas calendar starts in October.
  • Bronze-die Italian pasta, our recipe. Paccheri (500g) and Tagliatelle (250g) carrying the Carpaninis label, slow-dried for the texture only bronze gives.
VISIT · 44 FROGMORE STREET · ABERGAVENNY NP7 5AN

Come in. Wander front to back.

Frogmore Street is the old commercial spine of Abergavenny, between Lion Street and White Horse Lane. The street’s name comes from the frogs that once lined the Gavenny brook. Number 44 sits in a tight three-shop Italian cluster: Carpaninis (44), Il Gusto (43), Casa Bianca (51). On the third weekend of September, the Abergavenny Food Festival routes its main foot-track past our door.

Address
44 Frogmore Street, Abergavenny NP7 5AN
Phone
01873 268160
Email
info@carpaninis.co.uk
Hours
Call ahead in 2026 while the new company settles. Christmas hamper bookings open in October.

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44 Frogmore Street, Abergavenny NP7 5AN. Between Lion Street and White Horse Lane, two doors from Il Gusto. Open in Google Maps ↗
FAQ · THE FIVE WE GET ASKED MOST

Five questions, the answers on the counter.

Do you build hampers to order while I wait?

Yes. Choose the hamper size, walk the shop, pick anything you like from the 88 lines on the shelves, set a budget. We arrange, wrap and ribbon it on the counter while you wait. The hamper bench has been at the back of the shop since the early 1980s.

Can I buy your Welsh gin and rum online or only in store?

Both. Carpaninis Lemon and Honey Welsh Gin (70cl, £30) and Carpaninis Organic Welsh Rum (70cl, £30) ship across Great Britain through this site, or pick them up on Frogmore Street any day we are open.

Where exactly are you on Frogmore Street?

Number 44, between Lion Street and White Horse Lane. Two doors from Il Gusto, three from Casa Bianca. The three of us make up the Italian quarter of Abergavenny.

Are you the same family as the Treorchy Carpaninis?

The Welsh-Italian Carpanini name spans several South Wales branches that came over with the Bracchi diaspora. The Abergavenny shop is its own family business, opened in 1976 by Angelo and Maxine, now in its second generation under their son Marco.

Do you ship internationally?

Yes, within reason. The spirits travel inside Great Britain only. Hampers, food and homeware ship across the UK and to most of Europe. Ask us on info@carpaninis.co.uk for anything further.