 From: $6.87 Asiago Vecchio has an unmistakeably marked flavor, with a distinctive, slightly sharp taste. It is a semi-hard Italian gourmet cheese with a granular texture, is scattered with small to medium-sized holes and has a strawlike color.
It is usually made in the late autumn-winter period with semi-skimmed milk, specifically chosen from the splendid high mountain pastures of the Trentino region and the Asiago plateau, which, together with its long natural ageing, guarantee its quality and bring out its rich flavor.
It is an excellent table cheese, that aged for approximately 1 year and can be eaten alone or with typical regional dishes.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 po... |  Sold out, more expected soon Grana Padano is a sweet and savory gourmet cheese, the name Grana was popularly bestowed upon the cheese because of its 'grainy' consistency which was markedly different from the other cheeses known until then.
Grana Padano was created at the beginning of the millennium by the Cistercian monks of Chiaravalle who used ripened cheese as a way of preserving surplus milk. By 1477 it was held to be the most famous cheese of Italy. Grana Padano is produced throughout the regions of Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto, and in the provinces of Trento, Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì, Piacenza and Ravenna.
Grana Padano is a cylindrical, cooked hard cheese which is matured slowly. It may be used as a cheese in yo... |
 Your Price: $15.37 Parmigiano-Reggiano is a member of the Grana family of very hard Italian cheeses and it has been produced in small-size dairy farms for many hundreds of years. In the English-speaking world this famous cheese is generally known as Parmesan.
Parmesan cheese is made in squat drums which look rather like small beer barrels. The rind is a shiny golden brown color and has the name of the cheese printed allover it. The paste is a good straw-yellow color with a grainy, flaky, and brittle texture which hardens as the cheese matures. The maturation time is 24 months or more.
The cheese has a radial grain which makes it difficult to cut with a knife. Instead it is split open with a special wide-blad... |  From: $8.28 Piave Vecchio or Old Piave is made from the pasteurized cow's milk. The cheese is made by a cooperative in the Piave River Valley region of Belluno, Italy in 15-pound wheels with the name impressed in the rind.
This gourmet cheese has been aged for about 10 months and has a dense texture and butterscotch aroma and flavor that resembles a young Parmigiano Regiano.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of approximately 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |