Farms, dairies, cooperatives and affineurs in Valpolicella that you can visit or buy from.
A guide to cheese farms in Valpolicella.
Family dairy at 1,150 m in Erbezzo, three generations of cheesemakers. It makes Monte Veronese and Grana Padano and sells at the dairy and online.
Cheeses: Monte Veronese, Grana Padano
Visiting: cheese, butter and ricotta sold directly at the dairy, online shop with refrigerated delivery
Dairy in Velo Veronese run by the Dalla Valentina family since 1957, with a shop. A Slow Food presidium maker of Monte Veronese di malga; also makes Grana Padano.
Cheeses: Monte Veronese, Monte Veronese di malga, Grana Padano
Visiting: dairy shop with local products, open Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday
The Albi family's dairy and farm shop beside their inn in the Lessinia park. A founding member of the Monte Veronese consortium, it also makes an organic line.
Cheeses: Monte Veronese
Visiting: farm shop (spaccio) selling the dairy's cheeses, restaurant, rooms and spa on the same site
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Latte intero, from whole milk and sold from 25 days, and d'allevo, from partly skimmed milk and sold from 90 days. Italian Wikipedia splits d'allevo into mezzano (90 days to 6 months, blue label) and vecchio (over 6 months, black label); latte intero carries a light green label.
Qualigeo's gastronomy note says d'allevo, the older and stronger type eaten at the end of a meal, goes well with slightly fruity red wines ("vini rossi leggermente fruttati").
Musella's cellar tastings at San Martino Buon Albergo serve its wines with Monte Veronese of different ageing, and the Moonlight Lessinia dinner on 25 October 2026 pours Musella wines with three ageings of Monte Veronese DOP.
Italy recognised Monte Veronese as a denominazione di origine by a decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 9 April 1993 (Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 196, 21 August 1993), and the EU registered it as a DOP in 1996.
By the letter M branded on the heel of the wheel next to the DOP mark, according to Slow Food.
The consortium says the milk comes only from cows on alpine pasture between May and October.
Slow Food's presidium lists La Casara in Roncà, Caseificio Achille (Dalla Valentina) in Velo Veronese, Caseificio Artigiano Dario Gugole in San Giovanni Ilarione and Caseificio Gardoni in Roverè Veronese. Dalla Valentina, in the Lessinia hills north of Valpolicella, has a shop open to visitors.
Italy recognised Monte Veronese as a denominazione di origine by a decree of the President of the Council of Ministers of 9 April 1993 (Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 196, 21 August 1993), and the EU registered it as a DOP in 1996.