Azienda Agricola La Piuma di Bertussi Michele

In Marcheno, along the Valle Trompia, Michele Bertussi's dairy operates in a landscape that cheesemaking has shaped for centuries. His sole denomination is Nostrano Valtrompia DOP, the valley's emblematic cheese: a hard cheese made from raw milk, colored and scented with saffron, aged for at least twelve months. The resulting wheel is golden and distinctly mineral, an expression of one of the nineteen municipalities bound by the protected origin's regulations. Here, the milk composition and alpine pastures establish a consistency that cannot be reproduced elsewhere: it's not just a matter of the cheesemaker's hand, but of altitude, grass, and season. Bertussi operates within these strict limits, where each wheel bears the geography of the valley. Nostrano Valtrompia thus remains a cheese of its territory before being a signature product, measured by months of aging and mountain raw material rather than any claim.

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