Secrets of Parmigiano Reggiano & Balsamic Vinegar: Full Production Tour & Tasting

Highlights

• Full Parmigiano Reggiano Production Tour
• Balsamic Vinegar Tasting
• Gastronomic Experience

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Cavriago

   2h

   We’ll go into the cheese factory during milk processing and we'll witness in cooking and making of cheese wheels. We’ll see then the process of salting and maturing up to enter the huge “caveau”, where thousands of cheese wheels are guarded and laid out in long rows in the silent maturation rooms and where the scent of cheese will smell so nice and exciting that we won’t be able to resist till the final tasting of cheese and local typical products. I will give you a lab coat and a cap for access to the production area. I’ll bring you along a complete tour to discover all the steps of Parmigiano Reggiano’s production.

2. 2

   Stop 2

   30min

   Farm with cows milked and newborn calves. We’ll see the places, where the animals are bred and where the milk is mold. If we are lucky we will see a newborn calf it often happens in the morning.

3. 3

   Stop 3

   1h

   An ancient farm transformed into a farmhouse where we will have a coffee break in the morning as soon as we arrive and at the end of the tour we will do the tasting of cheeses aged 12, 24, and 36 months with typical Emilian salami and a glass of Lambrusco DOC wine and 3 aged balsamic vinegar of 8 and 15 and 30 years.

4. 4

   Albinea

   1h

   tour of the ancient vinegar factory and tasting of balsamic vinegar

Before you go

Location