Historic Bitto ---

Historic Bitto is a cheese made from raw whole cow's milk (brown alpine breed cattle) with the addition of raw goat's milk (Orobica breed goats) in a percentage varying between 10 and 20%. It has a cooked paste; it is semi-hard or hard if aged for a long time. The objective is to maintain traditional processing as much as possible, following the rhythms of nature and the animals. The cows are milked by hand to stress them as little as possible and rotational grazing is practiced: during the three months of alpine grazing, the herd is led through a staged route, from the lowest to the highest station. Along the way, the traditional calècc – millennia-old stone structures that protect the cheese-making area – serve as an itinerant production hut, always within reach.