Asiago vs Rosa Camuna
Asiago
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- Italy
- Place
- Veneto
- Status
- PDO
Asiago is a cow's-milk cheese from the Asiago plateau in Veneto and from the protected zone around it. Pressato is young, pale, and mild. D'allevo is aged until it is firm and sharper.
Rosa Camuna
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Bloomy rind
- Country
- Italy
- Place
- Val Camonica, Lombardy
Rosa Camuna is a mild semi-hard cheese from Val Camonica in Lombardy, Italy. It is made from partially skimmed cow's milk. The wheel is not a plain round. Makers shape it like the Camunian rose, the four-lobed flower carved on rocks in the valley and used as a symbol of Lombardy. A short rest leaves an ivory paste with small, even eyes and a thin rind that carries a light white bloom.