Sheep farm and dairy in the Tavo valley below the Gran Sasso, founded 2024 to continue the Martinelli farm. Makes raw-milk Pecorino di Farindola with pig rennet and sells it at the farm shop.
Cheeses: Pecorino di Farindola, Ricotta di pecora
Website: caseariasanpanfilo.it
An aged Farindola is mushroomy and hay-scented and only mildly piquant. A dry Montepulciano d'Abruzzo meets those woodland notes with its fruit, and the moist sheep's-milk paste softens the wine's tannin.
A younger, semi-aged Farindola has milk and grass flavours that suit a dry, high-acid white. The Pecorino grape's acidity lifts the paste; the grape and the cheese happen to share a name.
Address: Contrada Trosciano Superiore 50, 65010 Farindola (PE), Abruzzo
Cooperative dairy at Calascio making Canestrato di Castel del Monte and aged sheep ricotta; visitors can stop at the dairy to buy cheese.
Cheeses: Canestrato di Castel del Monte, Ricotta di pecora stagionata
Visiting: stop at the dairy to buy cheese to take away
Family dairy founded 1956 at Sant'Eufemia a Maiella, specialising in pasta-filata cow's-milk cheeses: caciocavallo, scamorza and provoloncino, plus giuncata, ricotta and yogurt.
Cheeses: Caciocavallo abruzzese, Scamorza abruzzese, Giuncata abruzzese
Visiting: dairy shop
Dairy at Moscufo since 1975, buying milk from nearby farms. Makes caciocavallo, sheep, goat and mixed-milk cheeses and fresh dairy, and farms 18 ha of olives, cereals, fruit and vegetables.
Cheeses: Caciocavallo abruzzese
Visiting: dairy shop at Moscufo, second shop in Pescara, Via del Circuito 118
Goat farm at about 1,200 m in the Majella national park, making raw-milk cheeses without starter cultures from April to October, when the goats graze mountain pasture.
Cheeses: Formaggella with juniper and wild mint, Muffato a pasta cotta, Muffato a pasta cruda
Visiting: cheese pickup at the farm, arranged by phone or the contact form on its site
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