List of Italian PDO cheeses

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This List of PDO Italian cheeses includes all the Italian cheeses which have Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status under European Union regulations.

Prior to 1996 when the PDO system came into operation, many Italian cheeses were regulated under a Denominazione di Origine (DO) system, which arose out of the 1951 Stresa Conference and was established under the Italian law 125/54. These appellations of origin were recognized in a number of European countries with which Italy had bilateral agreements. (The international framework of recognition was further developed—and extended from cheese to include other agricultural products—by the Lisbon Convention of 1958, and the modifications made to it at Stockholm in 1967, and by the TRIPS accord of 1994.)

All of the existing “DO” cheeses were registered by the EU as “PDO” cheeses during the course of 1996.

The following table indicates for each cheese the year in which it acquired DO status (where applicable), the year of PDO registration and the approximate area within which the regulations permit it to be produced.

List of PDO Italian cheeses

Name and styles	DO	PDO	Milk	Production zone
				Regions	Provinces
Asiago  Asiago d’allevo “mezzano”  Asiago d’allevo “vecchio”  Asiago pressato	1978	1996	Cows	Veneto	Padua, Treviso (part), Vicenza (part)
				Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Trento (part)
Bitto	1995	1996	Cows (80%) Goats (20%)	Lombardy	Bergamo, Sondrio
Bra  dura  tenera  di Alpeggio	1982	1996	Cows	Piedmont	Cuneo, Turin
Caciocavallo Silano	1993	1996	Cows	Calabria	Crotone, Catanzaro, Cosenza
				Campania	Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Naples
				Molise	(Entire territory)
				Puglia	Bari, Taranto, Brindisi
				Basilicata	Matera, Potenza
Canestrato Pugliese	1985	1996	Sheep	Puglia	Province of Foggia
Casciotta d'Urbino[1]	1982	1996	Sheep (70%–80%) Cows (20%–30%)	Marche	Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Castelmagno	1982	1996	Cows Sheep and/or Goats (optionally a little)	Piedmont	Cuneo
Fiore Sardo[2]	1955	1996	Sheep	Sardinia	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Fontina	1955	1996	Cows	Aosta Valley	(Entire territory)
Formai de Mut dell'Alta Valle Brembana	1985	1996	Cows	Lombardy	Bergamo
Gorgonzola	1955	1996	Cows	Piedmont	Novara, Vercelli,
				Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia
Grana Padano	1955	1996	Cows	Lombardy	Lodi, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Mantova (to the north of the Po), Milan, Pavia, Sondrio, Lecco, Varese
				Piedmont	Alessandria, Asti, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Vercelli
				Trentino‑South Tyrol	Trento
				Veneto	Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona, Vicenza
				Emilia‑Romagna	Bologna (east of the Reno), Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Piacenza, Ravenna, Rimini
Montasio[3]	1986	1996	Cows	Friuli‑Venezia Giulia	Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, Trieste
				Veneto	Belluno, Treviso, Padua, Venice
Monte Veronese	1993	1996	Cows	Veneto	Verona
Mozzarella di Bufala Campana	1993	1996	Buffalo	Campania	Caserta, Salerno, Naples, Benevento,
				Lazio	Frosinone, Latina, Rome
Murazzano	1982	1986	Sheep (60%–100%) Cows (0%–40%)	Piedmont	Province of Cuneo
Parmigiano-Reggiano	1955	1996	Cows	Emilia‑Romagna	Modena, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Bologna (west of the Reno)
				Lombardy	Mantova (south of the Po)
Pecorino Romano	1955	1996	Sheep	Lazio	Rome
				Tuscany	Grosseto
				Sardinia	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Pecorino Sardo	1991	1996	Sheep	Sardinia	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Pecorino Siciliano	1955	1996	Sheep	Sicily	(Entire territory)
Pecorino Toscano[4]	1986	1996	Sheep	Tuscany	Arezzo, Pisa, Massa Carrara, Livorno, Grosseto, Firenze, Prato, Lucca, Pistoia, Siena
Provolone Valpadana	1993	1996	Cows	Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Mantova, Milan
				Veneto	Padua, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza
				Emilia‑Romagna	Piacenza
				Trentino‑South Tyrol	Trento
Quartirolo Lombardo	1993	1996	Cows	Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia, Varese
Ragusano	1995	1996	Cows	Sicily	Ragusa, Syracuse
Raschera	1982	1996	Cows Sheep and/or Goats (optionally a little)	Piedmont	Cuneo
Ricotta Romana[5]		2005		Lazio	(Entire territory)
Robiola di Roccaverano	1979	1996	Cows (max 85%) Sheep and/or Goats (min 15%)	Piedmont	Provinces of Alessandria, Asti
Spressa delle Giudicarie[6]		2003	Cows	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Western Trentino
Taleggio[7]	1988	1996	Cows	Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia
				Veneto	Treviso
				Piedmont	Novara
Toma Piemontese[8]	1993	1996	Cows	Piedmont	Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Vercelli
Valle d’Aosta Fromadzo (or Vallée d’Aoste Fromadzo)[9]	1995	1996	Cows	Aosta Valley	(Entire territory)
Valtellina casera	1995	1996	Cows	Lombardy	Sondrio

Contents 1 Key to acronyms 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] Key to acronyms

DO 

Denominazione di Origine (Appellation of Origin)

DOP 

Denominazione di Origine Protetta (PDO, or Protected Designation of Origin)

DPR 

Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica (Presidential Decree)

DPCM 

Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio (Prime-ministerial Decree)

PDO 

Protected Designation of Origin

[edit] See also

• List of Italian cheeses

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Useful sources for the dates of recognition and copies of the production regulations for many of these cheeses include:
  • www.milkonline.com, Disciplinari - DOP - IGP
  • www.formaggio.it, Formaggi Italiani DOP e STG

This list is complete and up-to-date as of 2006-10-04.