AGRICOLA IVONNE DI NICOLETTA IVONNE

In Verrès, in the lower Aosta Valley, Nicoletta Ivonne runs a farm dedicated to Fontina DOP. The milk comes exclusively from Valdostana breed cows, the animal upon which the entire dairy culture of this alpine region rests: a choice that links the cheese not to an abstract technique but to a precise ecosystem of pastures and altitudes. Each wheel develops the elastic texture and minute holes that distinguish true Fontina from any imitation. These characteristics arise from the environment before the hand: the altitude, the meadow grasses, and the knowledge passed down through generations among the valley's producers all contribute to shaping them. In Ivonne's work, the denomination is not just a label, but the synthesis of a vertical territory, where the cheese carries the memory of the slopes where the cattle grazed. A product that tells, in every slice, the geography that generated it.

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