Hello! Today is our last day here in Italy and we had to end it with a tour and tasting of cheese! We woke up, ate some croissants and expresso at the villa and then rode about 30 minutes to the cheese producer. A young man and his wife own 200 sheep and they specialize in pecorino cheese, yogurt and ricotta. He showed us around the building where they take the sheep milk to transform into the delicious cheeses and yogurt. The most interesting part of the tour was going into the basement where the cheeses are aged. They had a great system of labeling and knowing which batches of cheese go together. The sheep only graze on the grass in the pasture so they are very natural. He said he doesn’t think that grains and other processed animal feeds are needed to produce healthy sheep, which I thought was informational. We were able to taste the pecorino cheese with some local honey, bread and prosciutto. I bought some to cheese ...
