DOP cheese made with semi-skimmed raw milk. It is undoubtedly the most popular Italian cheese throughout the world. The rind is hard, smooth and large, with a straw-yellow or brown colour. The cheese is hard, grainy, white or straw-yellow coloured, with very fine holes, sometimes barely visible and evenly distributed. After 12 months of ripening, it develops tyrosine crystals. Table cheese or grating cheese, excellent on dry pasta and as an ingredient for filled pasta.
INGREDIENTS: milk, salt, rennet, natural whey injection.
TYPE OF MILK: semi-skimmed cow's milk.
MILK TREATMENT: raw.
RIPENING: minimum 270 days.
AVAILABILITY: all year.