Say Cheese with a big smile as you taste and love this amazing, freshly prepared beautiful Formaggio served with even more love and kindness in Modena. So you find yourself 253 miles north of Rome and you just enjoyed the Modena Olive oil factory tour and shopping spree. It gets better! The Ferrari Museum is the next stop but you are famished. Perfecto! I absolutely and wholeheartedly recommend this fantastic amazing, beautiful tour of this cheese factory and the store that comes with these generous samplings, ( more like a all you can eat and then some cheese fest), the wine pairings w huge pours and the very big gift bags all for just the equivalent of $69 US. The factory is immaculate, just huge and very well organized. The tour in English is about an hour long and covers the lovely 1000 plus year history, the science behind the production( as viewed through the big microscopes), the patience of the process and the magnificent end result - 150,000 eighty eight pound individually annually produced packages of the one of the most fresh and delicious cheeses .... Ever! The Parmigiano Reggiano. There are five regions that produce this; we got to enjoy 20% of that. Definitely will be back to enjoy the individual taste in each one. I just love that for all of us eggplant parm and chicken parm lovers and fans back in NY and all over the US, this is a fantastic opportunity to see, taste and experience the source and the real deal! read more

Caseificio Sociale 4 Madonne - Every Cheese lover's ultimate dream, now reality. Amazing tour and tasting, Modena Italy. - Cheese Shops Near Me - Modena, Missouri

This is exactly what I was hoping for when I booked a cheese tour in Modena. Getting to learn the process and then see it happening and then being able to taste some before we left. Well worth the money. Highly recommend it. read more

We came out here for a cheese tour - it was about 15 min from our hotel in Modena, but you do need a car. I think they produce something like 2 or 4% of all the parmigiano reggiano in the world, and they source from 4 local dairies in the region. The tour was done in English, and we had a small group of 4 of us. You get an explanation of the process, how much milk goes into a wheel, how many days the cheese has in each stage of its production, and you can see everything happening in action behind glass windows. The final room with the racks full of aging parmigiano reggiano is super impressive. They also have a photo of the infamous earthquake that caused the prior racks to collapse (as seen on Chef's Table). I actually learned a lot about the DOC parmigiano reggiano on this tour. We finished with tastings (you can pay for different levels of tastings). Our's had charcuterie, grissini, water, Lambrusco, and of course cheese. We tasted everything from the early stage stuff shaven off the wheels to ricotta to 12 month parmigiano, up to 48 month. There was also a red cow one that was rare and more expensive, but I think I prefer the regular parmigiano. As it's aged, it gets a little dryer, so I actually preferred the 24 month. Afterwards, you can buy stuff in the shop. They had lots of parmigiano reggiano choices vacuum sealed (including a biodynamic one), and prices were better than at the Mercato Albinelli in the city. They also had pastas, meats (reasonably priced culatello!), house made yogurt, cookies, jams, olive oil, balsamic - lots of great food gifts. If you like cheese, it's definitely worth a visit out here! read more

Very well done, hour-long, tour in English and tasting afterwards in modern facility. The tour was easy to arrange ahead of time on their website. Everything was well organized. Highly recommended read more