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Secrets of Parmigiano Reggiano and Balsamic Vinegar
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4 Hours 30 Minutes
Mobile ticket
Pickup offered
Offered in: English, Italian
Overview
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
- Private transportation
- 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
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- disposable coat and shoe covers for access to the dairy production area and the cow farm
Meeting And Pickup
Meeting point
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Just In case you will arrive by your car the meeting will be at 08:40 at the B and B Antico Podere Emilia where you can park easily and for free.
Start time
08:00 AM
End Point
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Just In case you will arrive by your car the meeting will be at 08:40 at the B and B Antico Podere Emilia where you can park easily and for free.
Just In case you will arrive by your car the meeting will be at 08:40 at the B and B Antico Podere Emilia where you can park easily and for free.
Pickup points
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Pickup details
Coming from Bologna or Florence I suggest train Frecciarossa 9504 Coming from Milan I suggest train frecciarossa 9515. The meeteng is at 08.10 at Reggio Emilia AV train station, located in via città del tricolore (RE) Coming From Parma or Modena the meeting will be at 07.50 at Reggio Emilia Centrale train station, located in Piazzale Guglielmo Marconi (RE). BE CAREFUL: It's not possible to manage any type of delay. If you are late you can still reach me by taxi from the train station. Before booking the train send us a message by chat or WhatsApp mobile to have more instructions.
What To Expect
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 Included
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
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 Hours • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Only people over the age of 13 can participate
Operated by Claudio Bonoretti
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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