Grana Padano EAT-Box: Live Tour of San Pietro Dairy and Guided Tasting
Your EATales guide for Grana Padano is Laura Zecchini, spokeswoman for the award-winning Latteria San Pietro. She will show you how soil, tradition, art and science combine to create this exceptional grainy cheese – the “Grana” of Grana Padano.
It all begins with hay, the ‘precious forage’ that grows so well in the Po valley – the “Padano” of Grana Padano means ‘from the Po Valley’. Dairymen nurture their cows using digitalization and scientific milking technology that closely monitor milk quality and the cowshed environment.
You will visit the cowshed and learn about milking technology and digitalization used to monitor the quality of the milk, as well as the environment of the cows.
Then you will see artisan cheesemakers who apply the human touch to processes and techniques both age-old and regulated by the European Union through Grana Padano’s protected designation of origin – PDO (DOP in Italian.)
The craft of the dairyman is the heart of the production. He is the first person who, every day, begins working in the morning, and the last going home.
Grana Padano cheese is then shaped and stored. You will also be stunned by the amazing view of the storage room.
The sight of thousands of golden cheese wheels, each 24-40 kg (53-88 lbs.), stacked floor to ceiling in storage rooms is indeed impressive!
At the end of the streaming live tour, Laura will guide you as you sample the cheeses you received in your EAT-Box.
Itinerary
- Visit the Cheese Factory in a live streaming together with Laura Zecchini
- Learn the history behind the Grana Padano cheese and the factory
- Discover a hidden spot in Italy
- Enjoy the EAT-Box with a selection of 2 kinds of Grana Padano cheese
- Have a cheese guided tasting
- Get a discount for your next holiday in Italy
Included
Destination: Lombardy
Length of stay: 60min
Period: Year round
Fee includes:
- A live-streamed 60-minute tour of the Latteria San Pietro in Mantua, Lombardy with Laura Zecchini as your expert guide.
- Your EAT-box shipped directly to your home containing two shrink-wrapped wedges of Grana Padano cheese:
- one aged 24 months (700-800 gr approx)
- one aged 34 months (700-800 gr approx)
- a cheese knife
- a box with genuine Po River Valley hay
- a Grana Padano recipe mini-book. - A detailed letter to prepare you for your guided tour and tasting.
- 10% discount certificate on future off-the-beaten-track tour in Italy, with EATales Partner Storywalking
Gift
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Delivery Information
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Please note: shipping costs for the EAT-box are not included in the fee.
Live Virtual Tour Information
Once you have ordered your EATales Experience and received your EAT-Box, please contact us to schedule your Live Tour. Tours are available from Monday to Saturday year round. Certain blackout dates apply.
There is a maximum of 15 participants per live streamed tour, but it could be just your group. If you wish to guarantee a private tour, please email us at experiences@eatales.travel.
Disclaimer
Cheese production takes place in the morning, Italian time. At the time of your tour, it may be finished for the day. If so, you will still see the process via video while enjoying every other part of your live tour and tasting with Laura.