Parco delle Alpi Marittime: Products

Products: Cheese

Alpi Marittime Park is characterized by the presence of Piemontese cow breeders and, during the summer, about 600 Frabosana (or Roaschina) sheep climb to the mountain grazing lands. Here, traditional raw-milk cheese is produced, above all Nostrale, while Tomino of Entracque is mainly produced by two cheese factories collecting the milk from areas outside the Park. Entracque is also the name of a top-quality potato production (a local variety has been re-launched, the so-called Piatlìna), while Cuneo bean is cultivated in about 70 thousand hectares of provincial territory, from Fossanese plain to the mountain valleys and Upper Langa. Among the ancient fruit cultivars there are Martin Sec pears (particularly suitable for cooking) and Buras, Carla, and Contessa apples. Moreover, in the forests adjacent the Park it is possible to pick fine chestnuts.

Roaschina Sheep

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Ariund delle Alpi

It is a well-known cheese in the area. It has a cylindrical shape, a compact and semi-fat texture.

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Cravoun

Fresh cheese, characteristic of the mountain pastures of the area of Cuneo. It is produced in the summer mountain pastures exclusively with whole raw goat's milk.

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Fresh Tomini

It is a white-texture fresh cheese produced in small rounds (50-100g) with pasteurized cow's milk. Thanks to its delicate taste of fresh milk, it is ideal to flavor with various sauces.

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Goat's Milk Cheese

Cheese produced with raw whole goat's milk, in rounds going from 3 hectograms to 2 kilos. The small cheese factory also produces ricotta cheese.

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Mountain butter

The cream extracted from the cow's milk used for the cheese production is also the main ingredient of a high quality butter, which is enriched by the summer fragrances of the alpine pastures.

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Mountain Toma or Nostrale

When it is fresh, it has a soft texture with small holes. When it is mature (from two to four months), it has compact and granulous texture with a spicy taste.

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Nostrale d'alpe

It is a raw, whole or semi-skimmed cow's milk cheese with raw and pressed texture, produced only with milk coming from mountain pastures. The cheese is cylinder-shaped with level base and a weight ranging from 3 to 7 Kilos, its lateral surface is...

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Ricotta

It is not a real cheese, because it derives from the coagulation of the proteins of whey, and not of milk. From this process, the well-known soft cheese with a curdled texture and a delicate taste is obtained.

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Robiola

This cheese with edible crust can be eaten fresh, in small rounds, or after a maturation period lasting about twenty days, in bigger rounds.

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Sheep's Milk Robiola

It is a small round of cheese made with sheep's milk, fresh or mature, with edible crust.

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Sheep's Milk Seiras

It is the famous whole sheep's milk ricotta, with a white color and a light consistency. The classical cone shape is given by the cloth closed at the corners, where ricotta is placed for the whey draining. After being salted and smoked, it matures...

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Sheep's Milk Sola Cheese

It is a cheese produced in the mountains with raw milk. It has the shape of a crushed parallelepiped recalling the sole of the shoes (after which it has been named). The rounds do not weigh more than 3 kilos.

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Toumin d'Entraigue

The most famous cheese products include tomino d'Entracque. It is a fresh and soft cheese produced with cow's milk; characterized by a delicate taste, it is ideal if you want to season it with various sauces. The one-month maturation period gives...

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