Date of Issue : 25 March 2011
Poste Italiane issued a set of four regular stamps in the "Made in Italy" series on 25 March 2011, dedicated to the PDO cheeses: Gorgonzola, Parmigiano Reggiano, Mozzarella di Bufala Campana and Ragusano.
Each stamp shows the dairy product and the stamps are dedicated to: Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, in its characteristic round shape and in the plaited and knotted versions; Gorgonzola, Parmigiano Reggiano and Ragusano, both in whole wheels and in wedges and slices. In each of the illustrations, at the bottom on the right is the PDO trademark (Protected Denomination of Origin, DOP in Italian).
Ragusano is a cheese from whole cows' milk, with medium to long ageing, having a block shape and a square cross-section, with rounded corners. It is possible to find slight grooves on the surface from the cords used to hang the cheese during the ageing process. The external color is a straw to golden yellow, tending towards brown with further ageing.
Buffalo mozzarella (Italian: mozzarella di bufala) is a mozzarella made from the milk of the domestic water buffalo rather than from cow milk.
Parmigiano-Reggiano is a hard granular cheese, cooked but not pressed, named after the producing areas near Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna, and Mantova, Italy.
Gorgonzola is a veined Italian blue cheese, made from unskimmed cow's and/or goat's milk. It can be buttery or firm, crumbly and quite salty, with a 'bite' from its blue veining.
: Poste Italiane
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