When you feel like splurging. The Mancini family built a custom-designed, small factory right in the middle of the wheat fields so they could control the quality of their wheat and every stage of control the quality of their wheat and every stage of their estate produced pasta production. Bronze dies are used to form the pasta: this gives an artisanal, textured finish to the pasta that makes it hold its sauces better. The pasta dries slowly at gentle temperatures so it retains all its wheat flavor and nutrients.. Bucatini is a down right fun pasta. A thick spaghetti like shape that is hollow in the center. Sauces don't just coat the noodle, it is filled with it.