Rare Vacca Bianca milk, aged 36 months, delivers crystalline crunch and deep umami.
Rare 36-month Parmigiano Reggiano from Santa Rita Bio, made with milk from the ancient Vacca Bianca Modenese cow. Crystalline, nutty, deeply savory.
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Dense and dry, flakes into sharp shards under the knife with audible crunch from tyrosine crystals scattered through the paste.
Big, savory, and concentrated. Three years of aging on the rare white cow's milk pushes the umami and nuttiness well past a standard 24-month wheel.
Long savory finish that sits on the palate for a minute or more, with a sweet pineapple-broth note pulling underneath.
Very little fresh-milk character left at 36 months. The dairy has dried down into something deeper and more savory.
Toasted hazelnut and brown butter run right through the middle, with that aged-grana sweetness that lingers.
A quiet hay and dried-grass note underneath the nuttiness, the trace of the Vacca Bianca's pasture.
A small piquant lift on the back end from the long age, but mostly sweet and savory rather than sharp.
Natural rind
Hard, natural rind stamped with the Parmigiano Reggiano pin-dot brand. Inedible whole, but worth saving for broths and sauces.
Parmigiano-Reggiano stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.
A 36-month wheel wants something with acidity or bubbles to cut the concentration. Lambrusco is the classic Emilian partner; a bigger red like Barolo stands up to the savory finish.
A drop of traditional aged balsamico is the move with any older Parmigiano. Honey and fresh fruit play off the sweet, crystalline finish.
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“Organic Parmigiano Reggiano made from the milk of the Vacca Bianca Modenese, an ancient native white-cow breed once on the brink of extinction.”
Raw-milk, single-breed Parmigiano Reggiano DOP from Vacca Bianca Modenese herds, aged 36 months under organic certification.
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