Name Sola (Sora or Soera) Seal of quality Typical food-farming product (PAT) Description Sola (Sora or Soera) is a semi-matured or matured cheese, with a semi-soft texture, which is produced in the Southern part of the Province of Cuneo between the Mondovi and Cuneo zones. It is made using both sheep’s and goat’s milk that…
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Robiola d’Alba
Name Robiola d’Alba Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) Description A soft cow’s milk cheese, white in colour and without a rind. Each cheese weighs about 300 g. with a diameter of 9- 13 cm and convex edge of 2-4 cm. The minimum maturing period is of between 4 -5 days, although according to…
Toma di Elva o Caso di Elva (Casale di elva, Tumo de caso)
Name Toma d’Elva Seal of quality Typical food-farming product. (PAT) Description This is a cheese made from partially skimmed cow’s milk, the cow’s being of Piedmont breed. It is mature cheese, with a thin, light yellow rind, the cheese is yellow of a crumbly texture. The whole cheese has a diameter of 20 cm, with…
Tomino delle Valli Saluzzesi
Name Tomino dalle Valle Saluzzesi Seal of quality Typical food-farming product. (PAT) Description Very fresh cheese made from whole cow’s milk with a very soft and humid texture. The cheese normally weighs between 100 – 200 g. It comes in a cylindrical shape and in variable sizes, with flat faces 30 cm in diameter, and…
Toumin Dal Mel
Name Toumin Dal Mel Seal of quality Prodotto Agroalimentare Tradizionale (PAT) / Typical food-farming product. Procedures are in course to obtain PDO status. Description This cheese comes in a tapered cylindrical disk-like form with a diameter of between 10 and 12 cm , an extremely convex rim between 1- 2 cm in height: the average…
Toma Piemontese PDO
Name Toma Piemontese PDO Seal of quality Protected Designation of Origin with Reg. EEC 1263 dated 01/07/1996. Description This cheese comes in circular forms with flat or semi-flat faces and a diameter of between 15- 35 cm and a circumference height ranging from 6 – 12 cm ; consequently, even the weight of each whole…
Raschera PDO
Name Raschera PDO Seal of quality Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) – Reg. EC n° 1263/96. Description Raschera PDO is a hard, semi-fat, raw, pressed cheese of an ivory white colour. The fresher forms have a fine and delicate taste, whereas the aged cheese is stronger, persistent and savoury, and is usually sharper. The mountain-pasture…
Nostrale dell’Alpe
Name Nostrale dell’Alpe Seal of quality Typical food-farming product (PAT) Description This is a fat cheese (at times semi-fat) made from cow’s milk that is produced in summer on the mountain pastures of the province of Cuneo . Its distribution is such that it presents various external and gustatory characteristics and is carried out according…
Murazzano PDO
Name Murazzano PDO Seal of quality Protected designation of origin with EEC Reg. 1263 dated 01/07/1996. Description Murazzano PDO is a fat fresh cheese produced from sheep’s milk, pure or in a percentage not inferior to 60%. Sheep’s milk comes mainly from the native breed Pecora delle Langhe (Langhe Sheep) that, after having been in…
Castelmagno PDO
Name Castelmagno PDO Seal of quality Protected Designation of Origin Reg. EEC 1263 dated 01/07/1996. Description This cheese comes in a cylindrical form with flat faces measuring 15- 25 cm in diameter, 12- 20 cm circumference and weight ranging from 2 to 7 kg . As for the fresher forms, the rind is thin and…