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Packsize | 18 LB QUARTER, 70 LB WHEEL |
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Parmigiano-Reggiano, a grana style cheese from the Parma area in Italy, is considered by many to be the world`s greatest cheese. It is a cooked and unpressed, semi-fat, hard cheese made from raw cow`s milk. The cheese is encased within a yellowish-golden and slightly oily rind on which the brand name Parmigiano Reggiano is stenciled in small dots. Only wheels that are good enough to earn DOP status may wear these markings. This finely grained and highly soluble cheese is ranges in color from ivory white to straw-yellow.
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Type: Hard
Country: Italy
Boschetto al Tartufo Bianchetto is a fresh cheese from sheep`s milk and cow`s milk. A precious harmony between the pronounced taste, the pungent truffle`s flavor and the delicate, sweet taste of the tender paste.
Produced according to ancient traditions in the sheepfolds by Sardinian shepherds with raw milk to preserve the high nutritional value of sheep’s milk. The texture inside is firm, it has a characteristic smoky aroma and a spicy, savory taste. It has the typical shape “a dorso di mulo” that means rounded sides, a wrinkled rind, smoked and dark in color due to the treatment with olive oil during maturation. The cheese inside is white tending to straw-yellow. After selecting the best cheese, the Pinna Company takes care of the maturation, the smoking process and the product marketing stage.
A semi-cooked cheese with an intense aroma, flavorsome and a typical product of the Sardinian cheese-making tradition. The rind is smooth, dark-yellow in color, surface-treated with olive oil; the texture is compact, more or less firm depending on the length of maturation, and pale-yellow in color. The unique characteristics of this cheese were officially recognized in 1996, by the award of the “Protected Designation of Origin” label, which has helped safeguard production technique, protecting the original flavor and increasing its presence on the market.
The ancient Italian cheese, Montasio, dates back to the 13th century. Born in the beautiful Carnic Alps of northeastern Italy, Montasio was first known as “Carnia” (the name of Friuli’s culture-colliding, mountainous region found between Austria – to the north, and Slovenia – to the east). The herb-saturated alpine pastures on which the cattle graze account for the high-butterfat content milk that forms Montasio’s unmistakable richness and slightly sweet, grassy flavor. After 2 months of controlled aging, Montasio is sold as fresco, Italian for “fresh”. It is the youngest variety of this renowned semi-hard, cooked cheese. Montasio fresco has a white, dense paste dotted with holes, a smooth texture, and a nutty, tangy, yet delicately mild taste within its soft rind that bears the official Montasio Protection Consortium stamp and identification numbers.
The original Fontina produced in the Italian Alps is a semisoft, washed-rind unpasteurized cow’s milk cheese aged about 3 months. Rich and buttery cheese, Fontina finishes with an earthy flavor. It’s excellent for fondues and au gratin dishes.