/ Typical products / Cheeses / Drunk Cheeses / Typical products / Cheeses / Drunk CheesesThe drunken cheeses are a true specialty in the landscape of Italian dairy production. The charming name given to them truly reflects reality: in fact, to "drunken" a cheese, it must literally be thrown into tubs filled with fresh pomace, just pressed and not squeezed.
The shape absorbs significant amounts of liquid from the must, reaching the heart of the cheese. The result is a sensational aged cheese, with unique flavor, color, and aroma!
Our drunken cheeses (always part of the category of aged cheeses) are Italian and come from excellence and award-winning dairies. In short, these are not just cheeses; they are true works of art!
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Our drunken cheeses are real specialties created by true artisans of taste: refined by immersion in tanks full of wine or pomace.
Would you have ever thought it could be so easy to find online for sale and purchase these rare delicacies at the right price? Yes, because we are talking about cheeses that are very hard to find and also in limited production. The drunken cheese is nothing more than a mature cheese that is refined under the pomace of fine wines, so it requires both the aging period and the refining period.
The immersion duration varies from 8 to 10 days for mature cheeses, while around 30 days for aged ones. Once extracted, they are dried and cleaned, then they are left to age for another 15 or 30 days before tasting them.
However, be careful not to make the mistake that many still commit; confusing refined cheese with blue cheese, which, unlike refined cheeses, is injected with "good" molds.
Not all cheese processing is studied and experimented; in the case of cheese drunkenness, we are faced with a twist of fate, one of those cases where man had to turn necessity into virtue, creating, without wanting to, a true myth of global dairy production. It is said that during World War I, in the Left Piave area of Treviso, during the retreat from Caporetto, to hide the loaves of cheese from starving Austro-Hungarians, they were hidden under a pile of pomace, considered waste material and therefore not subject to searches. Once the dangers passed, the loaves were recovered and in the meantime, they had changed color and consistency. This unusual maturation made the cheese much better, with a taste beyond spicy and fruity. Since then, drunkenness has evolved, and today drunken cheese with its various drunken techniques is part of culture and high-quality culinary preparations.
Spaghetti & Mandolino has always been synonymous with quality: we are the only e-commerce in Italy that guarantees, in online sales, only excellent drunken cheeses which, as such, deserve a shipping and packaging in accordance to preserve the integrity and freshness of each cheese thanks to special freshness-saving packaging!
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