Fontina vs Rosa Camuna
Fontina
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Pressed
- Rind
- Washed rind
- Country
- Italy
- Place
- Aosta Valley
- Status
- PDO
Fontina Val d'Aosta is a cow's-milk cheese from the Aosta Valley, and a protected cheese. The rind is washed. The paste is elastic and smells of the cellar.
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.