Secrets of Parmigiano Reggiano and Balsamic Vinegar

4.9
(59 reviews)

6 hours (approximately)
Offered in: English and 1 more

I’ll bring you along a complete tour to discover all the steps of Parmigiano Reggiano’s production. We’ll see where the animals are bred and where the milk is mould. We’ll go into the cheese factory during milk processing and we'll witness in cooking and making cheese wheels. We’ll see then the process of salting and maturing up to enter the huge “caveau”, where thousands of cheeses wheels are guarded and laid out in long rows in the silent maturation rooms and where the scent of cheese will smell so nice and exciting that we won’t be able to resist till the final tasting of cheese.
on this special tour you will be able to touch the newborn calves on our farm which happens almost every day.
you will taste the original king of cheeses and many other local artisanal products such as real balsamic vinegar aged over 30 years and parma ham and lambrusco wine
and at the end you will take home with you a piece of real Parmiginao Reggiano aged for 24 months included in this tour

What's Included

Please Wait for my instructions before booking the train to come to me
To have transfer from the train station and the tour select option: tour with transfer
Balsamic Vinegar tasting of 8/15/30 years old
Tasting cheese of 3 different maturation times 12/24/36 months /typical local salami Parma ham ,coppa, salame, 1 glass of wine Lambrusco DOC
1 cappuccino and sweet pie and savoury cake
(400 gr./ 1 pound )of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese aged 24 months in transportable vacuum packaging
Disposable coat and shoe covers for access to the dairy production area and the cow farm
Vanilla ice cream with Balsamic Vinegar
To have transfer book option: tour with transfer, Wait for my instructions before booking the train

Meeting and pickup

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End point
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Itinerary

Duration: 6 hours (approximately)
  • 1

    We’ll go into the cheese factory during milk processing and we'll witness in cooking and making of cheese wheels. We’ll see then the process of salting and maturing up to enter the huge “caveau”, where thousands of cheese wheels are guarded and laid out in long rows in the silent maturation rooms and where the scent of cheese will smell so nice and exciting that we won’t be able to resist till the final tasting of cheese and local typical products. I will give you a lab coat and a cap for access to the production area. I’ll bring you along a complete tour to discover all the steps of Parmigiano Reggiano’s production.

    2 hours Admission ticket free
  • 2

    Farm with cows milked and newborn calves. We’ll see the places, where the animals are bred and where the milk is mold. If we are lucky we will see a newborn calf it often happens in the morning.

    30 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 3

    An ancient farm transformed into a farmhouse where we will have a coffee break in the morning as soon as we arrive and at the end of the tour we will do the tasting of cheeses aged 12, 24, and 36 months with typical Emilian salami and a glass of Lambrusco DOC wine and 3 aged balsamic vinegar of 8 and 15 and 30 years.

    1 hour Admission ticket included
  • 4

    tour of the ancient vinegar factory and tasting of balsamic vinegar

    1 hour Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Only people over the age of 13 can participate
  • sconsigliato ai viaggiatori con difficoltà motorie
Supplied by Claudio Bonoretti

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