{"id":1561,"date":"2018-09-20T11:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montasio.com\/2018\/09\/20\/ll-formaggio-montasio-dop-prodotto-della-montagna-pdm-e-solo-di-pezzata-rossa-italiana-pri-il-ritorno-al-futuro-della-tradizione-casearia\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:00:24","slug":"montasio-pdo-cheese-product-of-the-mountain-pdm-and-italian-red-pied-only-pri-pezzata-rossa-italiana-back-to-future-in-the-dairy-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/2018\/09\/20\/montasio-pdo-cheese-product-of-the-mountain-pdm-and-italian-red-pied-only-pri-pezzata-rossa-italiana-back-to-future-in-the-dairy-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Montasio PDO cheese \u201cProduct of the Mountain\u201d (PDM) and \u201cItalian Red Pied Only\u201d (PRI, Pezzata Rossa Italiana): \u201cback to future\u201d in the dairy tradition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Product and process innovations may contribute to reinforce the relationship between an Italian excellence like Montasio PDO, territory and traditions. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the past, the focus of dairy production was the selection of cattle breeds with a high productive specialization and industrialization of transformation processes. Today, the <strong>product\u2019s origin <\/strong>and <strong>protection <\/strong>of the <strong>environment <\/strong>and <strong>animals\u2019 health <\/strong>are a priority. In fact, even customers are more and more interested on these themes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this context, the experimentation supported by the Research and Technological Innovation Center for Agriculture of the University of Udine in collaboration with the Livestock Owner\u2019s Association of Friuli Venezia Giulia moves forward for the sake of the production of <strong>Montasio Pdo<\/strong> cheese with the labels <strong>\u201cProduct of the Mountain\u201d<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cItalian Red Pied Only\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to obtain the Montasio Pdo label, the cheese shall be produced in the area indicated by the Consortium for the Promotion of the product: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/montasio-cheese\/#production-area\">http:\/\/www.montasio.com\/montasio-cheese\/#production-area<\/a>. Moreover, only the cheese produced with raw milk collected, processed and matured (for at least 60 days) at over 600 meters of altitude may be classified as \u201cProduct of the Mountain\u201d. The further indication \u201cItalian Red Pied Only\u201d refers to the milk, which shall derive from animals that are inscribed in the herd book of this breed, recognized as \u201cbreed of national utility\u201d in the 50s already. Where does the Red Pied come and when did it first appear? This specific cow takes origin from an experiment for the genetic improvement of the old Friulian breed through subsequent crossbreeds with the <strong>Fribourg<\/strong> breed first and <strong>Simmenthal <\/strong>at a later stage. In the early Sixties, this breed became very popular all around Italy and in 1986, the <strong>Friulian Red Pied<\/strong> turned into the <strong>Italian Red Pied<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Organoleptic and nutritional characteristics of cheese are deeply influenced by <strong>feeding of cows<\/strong>, which during summer graze free. The production of Montasio Pdo in the Alpine areas has a positive impact on the environment, since it contributes to the protection of <strong>agrobiodiversity<\/strong> and conservation of <strong>grasslands and pasture areas<\/strong>, as well as to the <strong>employment <\/strong>of inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Montasio PDO-PDM-PRI is available at the <strong>Malga Montasio <\/strong><strong>already<\/strong>, easily accessible by car from Sella Nevea (Municipality of Chiusaforte), and at the farm shops of the <strong>Dairy of<\/strong> <strong>Ugovizza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product and process innovations may contribute to reinforce the relationship between an Italian excellence like Montasio PDO, territory and traditions. \u00a0 In the past, the focus of dairy production was the selection of cattle breeds with a high productive specialization and industrialization of transformation processes. Today, the product\u2019s origin and protection of the environment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[154,105,107,155,156],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montasio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}