{"id":2292,"date":"2026-11-03T12:24:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/faq\/how-is-fontina-dop-from-alpine-pastures-made-and-where-can-you-visit-the-historic-production-sites\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:24:47","slug":"how-is-fontina-dop-from-alpine-pastures-made-and-where-can-you-visit-the-historic-production-sites","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/faq\/how-is-fontina-dop-from-alpine-pastures-made-and-where-can-you-visit-the-historic-production-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"How is Fontina DOP from alpine pastures made, and where can you visit the historic production sites?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/the-valley-of-the-hams\/fontina-dop-and-alpine-cheeses\/\">Fontina DOP<\/a> is a full-fat, semi-cooked cheese produced exclusively from raw whole milk from cows of the Valdostana breed (red spotted, black spotted, and chestnut). Processing begins within two hours of milking, without pasteurization or additives.<\/p>\n<p>Alpine Fontina is produced from late June to late September in alpine pastures located between 1,700 and 2,400 meters above sea level (such as Barasson, Merdeux, and Menouve), where the herds graze on summer alpine pastures. The minimum aging period is 90 days at approximately 10\u00b0C on spruce planks, with constant humidity above 90%. The historic aging cellars, carved out of the tunnels of the old copper mines, can be visited in Valpelline at the Visitor Center of the Cooperativa Produttori Latte e Fontina.<\/p>\n<p>In \u00c9troubles stands the Old Turnaria Dairy, founded in 1853, the first cooperative dairy in the Aosta Valley. The building houses an ethnographic museum featuring copper kettles, churns, and original tools used to produce Fontina, butter, and s\u00e9ras. Guided tours of the dairy museum can be arranged by contacting the \u00c9troubles Municipal Library (phone +39 0165 789101).<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about local cheeses on the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/the-valley-of-the-hams\/fontina-dop-and-alpine-cheeses\/\">\u201cFontina DOP and Alpine Cheeses<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"argomento":[685],"class_list":["post-2292","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","argomento-fontina-and-alpine-pasture-cheeses"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"argomento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitgsb.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/argomento?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}