What is alpine cheese or malga cheese?

Among the cheeses that provide very strong and intense flavors, with a bitter aftertaste, a characteristic that makes them unique in the landscape of dairy products, the mountain cheeses stand out.
But what is mountain cheese? It is a product that comes from a series of agricultural and livestock activities that take place in mountain pastures during the summer months.

The mountain pastures are alpine pastures: depending on the territory, they vary in the type of land or buildings. The equipment used for production can also differ, as can the type of animals. Grazing activities are performed uphill or downhill. The adventure of mountain pasture and livestock herding begins like this: with the ascent to the pasture in May-June, ending with the transhumance in September, that is, the return to the plains.

The alpine pastures especially host cattle, which live in privileged environmental conditions: the quality of the air and sunlight, the green mountain pastures, and the activities that keep them in perfect health ensure that mountain cattle grow healthy, fully in touch with the green and immersed in their nature.

What are mountain cheeses?

It is in these contexts, in these particularly favorable places, that the mountain cheeses are born. Produced directly at the mountain pasture itself and then transported down to the valley after about 20 days, they exhibit unique and peculiar characteristics also due to an unparalleled vegetation: each cheese thus carries the flavors of a specific place, of certain pastures and mountains.

The cheeses from the Italian mountain pastures located in the Venetian or Lombard Alps possess typical vegetal scents, often fermented.

Although slightly fruity, they have a distinctive strong and intense flavor, with a bitter aftertaste, which makes them unique in their kind.

To enjoy these flavors, try the experience of a aged cheese from Malga Novezza, refined, summery, and floral, or a Monte Veronese dop d’Allevo, exclusively made from cow's milk, fresh, and intense.
Taste the Castelmagno dop, a noble, precious, and irresistible cheese, or the smoked ricotta from the mountain pasture: a product that tells the story of the shepherds of the mountain pastures of the Veronese mountains, reaching back to the ancient Cimbri people, who carried a smoking technique still in use today.

And finally, to fully understand the meaning and spirit of mountain pastures, enjoy our complete platter with the flavors of the pastures: a range of products that will make you feel immersed in green.