Asiago DOP Seasoned Gold of Time 250g

Asiago DOP Seasoned Gold of Time 250g

The Asiago DOP Stagionato Oro del Tempo is a semi-fat cheese made from semi-cooked curd, obtained from a maturation of over 10 months. It is characterized by a firm texture and a sporadic small to medium-sized hole structure, along with a richer taste.

This cheese is the result of a particular selection among the wheels that exhibit characteristics more closely tied to Venetian dairy tradition: creaminess, sweetness, and more developed holes, features that allow these wheels to be marked as Oro del Tempo.

Aged Asiago, also known as d’allevo, has distant origins in the homonymous plateau that, for centuries, allowed the local population to live off the land and the vast sheep pastures.

It is precisely in this enchanting and fertile place that, around the year 1000, the tasty cheese made from sheep's milk was born, which is still called “pegorin” today in the lively Vicentine dialect.

Documents from those years testify that this cheese had become so renowned that the inhabitants of the seven municipalities paid taxes and tributes to the lords of Padua in the form of small cheeses.

However, it was around the 16th century that cattle began to be preferred over sheep because their grazing method, which avoided tearing grass out by the roots but gently trimming it, helped prevent landslides and erosion of the thin layer of humus covering the underlying rocks.

Thus, cow's milk replaced sheep's milk, leading to the birth of the dairy technique that is still preserved and handed down in the huts of the Asiago plateau and has moved to the dairies in the surrounding territories of the provinces of Vicenza and Trento, which form the production area of Asiago DOP cheese.

The Asiago Stagionato DOP Oro del Tempo is indeed the one that most closely adheres to the rigorous tradition of the plateau cheesemakers. Asiago obtained the Protected Designation of Origin in 1996, becoming a symbol of Made in Italy worldwide, highly appreciated not only in Italy but also abroad.

Asiago is a typical cheese from the homonymous plateau and is produced in the area that extends from the Po Valley to the pastures of the Asiago Plateau and Trentino.

The area of milk collection and production of Asiago DOP cheese specifically encompasses four provinces: the entire Vicenza and Trento provinces along with a small part of Padua and Treviso.

Nutritional values per 100 g
Energy 417 kcal/1730 kJ
Fats 34 g
of which saturates 24 g
Carbohydrates 0 g
of which sugars 0 g
Proteins 27 g
Salt 2.1 g

Asiago DOP Seasoned Gold of Time 250g: How is it produced

Agriform SCA, Veneto

Ingredients Asiago DOP Seasoned Gold of Time 250g

Ingredienti: latte vaccino pastorizzato, sale, fermenti lattici, caglio.
Crosta non edibile trattata con carbone vegetale E153 and conservante natamicina E235.

Nutritional values

Valori nutrizionali medi per 100 g
Energia 417 kcal/1730 kJ
Grassi 34 g di cui saturi 24 g
Carboidrati 0 g di cui zuccheri 0 g
Proteine 27 g
Sale 2,1 g