Società Cooperativa Agricola Vallenostra

The headquarters of the Vallenostra Agricultural Cooperative Society is located in the heart of Val Borbera, straddling Piedmont and Liguria, in the province of Alessandria. The activity has been carried out for more than twenty years now by Roberto Grattone and Agata Marchesotti, pioneers of an authentic tourist activity that respects a territory that is still uncontaminated, rich in sites of historical, cultural, archaeological and food and wine interest. Vallenostra can boast the management of its own artisanal cheese factory in Mongiardino Ligure, a place where, thanks to the initiative and passion of Roberto and Agata, an important work has been carried out aimed at the recovery and enhancement of the territory.

The dairy, in addition to producing cheeses with raw cow and sheep milk, as was the case in the distant past, can be visited. Among others, the most famous and renowned cheese is certainly Montébore, which is produced following an ancient recipe that, however, risked being lost forever after World War II, but which today, thanks to the immense work carried out thanks to the Vallenostra Agricultural Cooperative Society, which is for all intents and purposes the only producer worldwide, has been rediscovered, allowing us to bring back to light a more unique than rare cheese that has even become a Slow Presidium Food capable of surprising, thanks to its delicacy, even the most refined palates.

Also in Mongiardino Ligure you can also find a farmhouse in which the kitchen of expert hands are able to interpret with great skill and imagination all the fruits of the magnificent land of the lower Piedmontese, products strictly seasonal and at Km0. It can therefore undoubtedly be said that the Vallenostra Agricultural Cooperative Society is a reality created in the name of the rediscovery of ancient flavors, with a view to protecting and transmitting all those peasant traditions that have been the symbol of the identity of an entire territory since time immemorial