Francesina

The Latteria Riccianico is a small dairy in the Mugello area, located in an unspoilt zone amid the woods and hills of Firenzuola, where we produce raw milk cheeses with organic fodder from our farm â this is where Francesina is born.

Francesina

ours is a farmhouse dairy. We produce all our cheeses from raw milk and the rinds are untreated. We have our own herd and we feed our cows mainly with the organic fodder we produce on our farm. It is a soft-paste fresh cheese whose rind is covered with a snow-white bloom, with pleasantly vegetal hints. And it is precisely this bloomy rind, reminiscent of French cheeses, that inspired its name. This is a cheese with a short ageing period, from 10 to 45 days. Initially the flavour is delicate with pleasant vegetal hints, while as ageing progresses it becomes more intense and piquant, and the paste takes on a creamier texture. Bloomy rind cheese, with an initially delicate flavour and pleasant vegetal hints. As it ages it acquires an intense flavour with piquant notes. The rind can always be eaten, except in the more advanced stages of ripening (after about a month), when it may take on more bitter notes. It can be enjoyed as a starter, at the end of a meal or at any time of day for a simple touch of goodness.