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Salento is famous not only for its picture-postcard beaches, inland villages and art cities, but also for its typical products. Specifically, dairy products represent one of the many reasons why year after year more and more people come to Apulia to discover its gastronomic wonders.
What is the best tasting cheese? Honestly there is no answer to this question, taste is subjective and the quality of the product does the rest.
Today in Salento there are many cheese factories that operate following the ancient recipes thanks to which high quality caesari products are made. You can understand it from the shape of these products, from the taste.
In the production of dairy products, we always try to pay the utmost attention to everything that concerns not only the depth of taste of the product, but its shape, its appearance. Whoever comes here will easily notice this trend, which binds contemporaneity to antiquity allowing guests of local dairies to find that passion, that authentic taste which has always distinguished Puglia in the world.
In order to discover the peculiarities of Apulian dairies, all that remains is to set off on an adventure with a group of enthusiasts able to illustrate the process of transforming milk into artisanal dairy products.
The experience in the world of Apulian dairies will be composed by a theoretical part and a purely practical one and will concern all the phases of production of cheeses and dairy products. It will be enough to observe the various steps that are performed on the processing chain in order to know the production techniques of the fantastic Apulian dairy products.
Whoever wants to, can experience being an Apulian dairyman, venturing into the production of typical Apulian products. And at the end of the discovery of Salento’s cheese factory there will also be a delicious cheese tasting of local products. As is tradition, the tasting will be accompanied by the possibility of drinking a good glass of wine.
Otherwise, you can decide to taste a rich aperitif based on fresh cheeses, cold cuts, baked products paired with local wines.
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