The
Latteria Riccianico is a small dairy in Mugello, located in an unspoiled area amid the woods and hills of Firenzuola, where we make raw milk cheeses with organic forage from our farm: this is where the
Formaggio da serbo is born
Formaggio da serbo
Ours is a
farmhouse dairy. We have our own herd of
Alpine Brown cows and feed our cows mainly with the
organic forage we produce on our farm. From spring to autumn our cows graze freely and feed onÂ
wild spontaneous grasses.
It is a semi-hard, semi-cooked, unpressed cow's milk cheese.
Made with
whole raw milk, it has an edible amber-yellow rind, while the paste inside is golden yellow, compact, semi-hard with a certain elasticity and variable eyes. Ageing, which ranges from 3 months to 2 years, gives it an intense flavour with spicy notes.
The ideal serving temperature is 18 °C.
A note on the name of this cheese: "da serbo" comes from "serbare", a verb that has fallen out of use in the rest of Italy but is still used in Tuscany meaning to set something aside to use at a later time.
Aged cheese:
traditional flavour with at least 3 months of ageing