Blu ’61® – blue cheese aged in Raboso Passito wine, with cranberries

🧀 Blue cheese aged in “Raboso Passito IGT” wine and cranberries. Sweet, balanced flavour with vinous notes.

The ability to encompass 50 years of history and passion... the magic of Antonio Carpenedo with Blu ’61® knows no boundaries and literally conquers the world, with the ability to amaze the most demanding and sceptical palates. The art of marrying an elegant blue cheese with a native wine is part of the success of this splendid experience called Blu ’61®, aged in Raboso Passito and accompanied by fine cranberries in the rind. A true jewel to meditate on. 50 years of marriage to Giuseppina inspired Antonio to “freeze” his love in time.

SIGHT: A splendid fusion of the grape marc of the rind and the red of the cranberries. It looks like a dessert from a haute pâtisserie. When cut, you can appreciate the fine, widespread marbling in green and ocean blue running through the cream-coloured paste.

TOUCH: Soft, tending to creamy on the surface with the warmth of the skin, it surprises with the soft consistency of the marbled paste thanks to the action of the wine. The rind in contact with the wine takes on a firm texture and breaks cleanly into portions with jagged edges.

SMELL: The symphony of aromas strikes the chords of our senses, surprising with the harmony of the blue veining that turns sweet. The scent of marasca cherry and dried fruit goes well with the vinous notes in the rind.

TASTE: The end of this journey is the mouth. It turns creamy and fills the palate with blue-cheese notes that are never sharp, pleasant and in perfect balance with the sweetness of the vinous notes of the Raboso passito. On its own or in contrast with the acidity of the cranberries, in a fondue with onion croutons, on top of meat or in a risotto, it knows no boundaries.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ On its own, to meditate on
✔ To cream a risotto (mantecatura)
✔ Pumpkin and Blu ’61 risotto
✔ With passito wines and aromatic sour beers

✨ Discover Blu ’61®: an elegant, sweet, vinous blue cheese aged in Raboso Passito.

🏅 Awards:

• First place at the ALMA CASEUS 2012 competition in the “Blue Cheeses” category
• INFINITI BLU, the world of blue cheeses:
  • Diploma of Excellence 2013
  • Quality Diploma 2015
  • Higher Quality Diploma 2016
• 🥉 Bronze medal, World Cheese Awards 2014
• 🥉 Bronze medal, World Cheese Awards 2017

Luxury pack of 150 g, tasting for 10 people
Milk type: cow’s milk
Treatment: pasteurised
Maturation: min. 2 months
Shelf life: 75 days
Pairing: passito wines

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, salt, lactic ferments, ripening ferments, rennet. Dried cranberries (cranberries, sugar, sunflower seed oil) (min. 4%) and “Raboso Passito IGT” wine (1%) in the rind.

Storage: +2 °C / +4 °C

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1529 kJ / 369 kcal. FAT: 31 g (of which saturated fatty acids 23 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 1.7 g (of which sugars 1.1 g). PROTEIN: 20 g. SALT: 2 g.

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Basajo® – blue sheep’s milk cheese aged in white Passito wine, with Chilean grapes

🧀 Blue-veined sheep’s milk cheese with a creamy paste, aged in white Passito wine and embellished with Chilean grapes in the rind.

The name Basajo® was born just like this, from the exclamation of Antonio Carpenedo’s little granddaughter, Ernesto’s daughter. Sincere, blunt, pure, direct. Basajo® makes no compromises and offers an experience for palates attentive to the countless facets contained in this cheese, the child of the skilled hands, the intuitions of Ernesto and the strict judgement of Antonio. Perfectly combining the strength of sheep’s milk with the sweetness of white passito wine is the result of two generations of master craftsmen, able to give emotions to the palate and to the mind.

SIGHT: One glance is enough to be delighted. The whiteness of the paste contrasts perfectly with the rich green/blue veining. Embellished with Chilean grapes in the rind that add green and yellow notes of colour, it surprises with its lustre.

TOUCH: Pleasant to the touch, with a soft texture tending to creamy, it invites you to taste and to lick your fingers.

SMELL: A fantastic olfactory experience, a prelude to intense emotions. The scents of raw sheep’s milk skilfully balance the sweetness of the grape marc and white passito wine.

TASTE: Basajo® is exceptionally melt-in-the-mouth: it melts immediately on the palate, giving pleasant sensations of contrast between the strong flavour of sheep’s milk and the sugary aftertaste of the passito wine.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ On its own
✔ With Chilean grapes
✔ With delicate red onion sauces
✔ In velvety vegetable soups
✔ As a starter
✔ At the end of a meal, paired with white passito wines

✨ Discover Basajo®: a creamy sheep’s milk blue cheese that blends the strength of the milk with the sweetness of white Passito.

🥇 Awards:

• INFINITI BLU, the world of blue cheeses: Quality Diploma 2014, 2016 and 2017
• 🥉 Bronze medal, World Cheese Awards 2017
• 🥇 Gold medal, World Cheese Awards 2018

Luxury pack of 150 g, tasting for 10 people
Milk type: raw sheep’s milk
Maturation: min. 6 months
Pairing: white passito wines

Ingredients: Raw sheep’s MILK, salt, rennet, lactic ferments, Penicillium Roqueforti, white passito wine (min. 1.9%) and dehydrated Chilean grapes (Chilean grapes, sunflower oil) (min. 0.1%) in the rind. Contains SULPHUR DIOXIDE.

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1513 kJ / 366 kcal. FAT: 33 g (of which saturated fatty acids 21 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 3.9 g (of which sugars 1.9 g). PROTEIN: 14 g. SALT: 1.8 g.

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Blu Gins® – blue cheese aged in Roby Marton Gin, with spices and white chocolate

🧀 Cow’s milk blue cheese aged in Roby Marton Gin and a fine blend of spices in the rind. Decorated with white chocolate.

As Antonio Carpenedo says, cheese always starts with an idea. Blugins was born on the occasion of Antonio’s 50th anniversary in the business. The family came up with an original idea: pairing cheeses with cocktails and, thanks also to the collaboration with a great Treviso bartender, specific cocktails were created for the occasion to go with our creations.

From this path of strong innovation and research, the Carpenedo Family decided to share this project with Roberto Marton and his prestigious Gin.

After two years of trials, in 2017, the right T.U.T.A. (Temperatura, Umidità, Tempo e Ambiente: temperature, humidity, time and environment) was finally found. And here is an intriguing cow’s milk blue cheese that marries perfectly with one of the world’s best-loved spirits.

The name Blugins crowns a product that aims at contemporary style and innovation of taste. Gin and cheese are not only a perfect pairing from a sensory and gastronomic point of view, they also represent the fusion of cultures, stories and passions that speak of the desire for pleasure and beauty. Blugins is dedicated to those who dislike the banal, to those who love to dare at the table and in life.

SIGHT: Blugins is wrapped in an ingenious packaging that recalls an original fabric pocket. The pearly white of the wheel is enriched with small flakes of the spices used in the distillation of the gin. When cut, you can appreciate the compactness and homogeneity of the veining and the particular creaminess of the paste.

TOUCH: The paste is compact and at the same time delicately creamy. The veining does not form a drop as in the most common blue cheeses but remains impalpable and delicately melted into the paste, thanks to the action of the Gin.

SMELL: A fragrant creation, a little alcoholic, sweet, elegant, fine and decidedly intriguing. Sensations of fine aromatic herbs and floral pleasantness blend pleasantly with the fragrant essence of the blue-veined cream.

TASTE: The aromatic expression of the Gin intoxicates the palate, finding in the creaminess of the cheese an ideal companion. The blue notes are elegant, noticeably spiced, slightly piquant and finely alcoholic.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ As a cheese for meditation
✔ With a Gin-based cocktail, for an ideal pairing
✔ In delicious “appetizers”
✔ In a risotto
✔ In creative “unconventional food”

✨ Discover Blu Gins®: a blue cheese that marries Gin, for those who love to dare at the table and in life.

🏅 Awards: Nomination, Italian Cheese Awards 2018

Luxury pack of 150 g, tasting for 10 people
Milk type: pasteurised cow’s milk
Maturation: min. 4 months

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, white chocolate min. 5% (cocoa butter min. 33%, MILK powder, sugar, emulsifiers: SOY lecithin, vanilla extract), salt, rennet, lactic ferments, Roby Marton Gin (min. 3.5%) and mixture of spices (in variable proportions): star anise, cardamom, juniper berries, ginger (min. 0.1%) in the rind.

Allergens: MILK, SOY

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1550 kJ / 374 kcal. FAT: 31.5 g (of which saturated fatty acids 22.3 g). Fat in dry matter (D.M.): min. 50%. CARBOHYDRATES: 1.4 g (of which sugars 0 g). PROTEIN: 21.2 g. SALT: 2.9 g.

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Vento d’Estate® – cheese aged in barrique with high mountain hay

🧀 Cheese aged in barrique with high mountain hay. A unique, pleasantly aromatic flavour with an aftertaste reminiscent of the scents of hay and flowers.

The fusion in barrique between the cheese and over 120 aromatic herbs from the high mountains. Conceived in the fresh meadows of the Dolomites, Vento d’Estate (“Summer Wind”) embodies all the purity of the Carpenedo family’s ageing technique.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ With fresh white wines
✔ With Trappist beers

✨ Discover Vento d’Estate®: a cheese with an aromatic flavour, aged in barrique with high mountain hay.

Pack of 180 g
Milk type: cow’s milk
Treatment: pasteurised
Maturation: min. 5 months
Shelf life: 365 days

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, lactic ferments, salt, kid rennet paste. Organic high mountain hay (min. 0.1%) in the rind. Origin of the milk: ITALY.

Storage: +2 °C / +4 °C. Rind not edible

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1927 kJ / 465 kcal. FAT: 40 g (of which saturated fatty acids 27 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 0.3 g (of which sugars 0 g). PROTEIN: 27 g. SALT: 2.3 g.

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Conciato al pepe (“pepper-cured”) – hard cheese aged in barrique with black pepper

🧀 Hard cheese aged in barrique with black pepper.

Antonio Carpenedo is fascinated by spices, their aromas and their origins. This small seed contained in a red berry is native to southern India and grown in tropical areas.

The fresh cheese is properly aged and, at the perfect moment, sealed in oak barrels with a jealously guarded blend of pepper. The barrels filled in this way follow a precise rotation schedule to allow a perfect transformation and transfer of flavours.

SIGHT: Cylindrical in shape, slightly irregular, the rind is dark in colour and rough in appearance owing to the massive presence of chopped pepper. The paste is straw-yellow in colour and slightly eyed.

TOUCH: Very distinctive to the touch on the rind, because of the chopped pepper. The paste is semi-hard and compact in consistency. Excellent for shaving into flakes.

SMELL: The unmistakable aroma of pepper evokes the distant bazaars of India, with a mix of scents of wood, flowers and a very faint lemon. In the paste, everything is wrapped in the intense scent of warm milk and butter.

TASTE: A gentle explosion of pepper. Piperine, the substance that gives pepper its spicy flavour, is pleasantly balanced by the properties of the cheese, with notes of milk and butter.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ In refined cuisine
✔ On its own, with a full-bodied barrique-aged red wine
✔ With a young red wine of decided character

As a pairing, we recommend our barrique-aged reds:

CAVALIERE ROSSO

CAPPELLO NERO

✨ Discover Conciato al pepe: a hard cheese aged in barrique, with an aroma that evokes the distant bazaars of India.

Pack of 180 g
Milk type: pasteurised cow’s milk
Maturation: min. 5 months

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, lactic ferments, salt, kid rennet paste. Black pepper in the rind (min. 2%).

Storage: 4-6 °C

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1952 kJ / 471 kcal. FAT: 40 g (of which saturated fatty acids 28.72 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 0.16 g (of which sugars 0 g). PROTEIN: 27.6 g. SALT: 1.8 g.

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Ubriaco® al Prosecco DOC – semi-hard cheese aged in Prosecco wine

🧀 Semi-hard cheese aged in Prosecco DOC wine. Delicate, sparkling and fruity taste with slightly acidic nuances. Delicate flavour, with a pleasant vinous aftertaste.

Cheese made from cow’s milk, aged for at least 4 months and then immersed in tanks with grape marc and dry wine. Antonio Carpenedo’s method involves precise immersion sessions, followed by periods of rest and drying, taking into account T.U.T.A., the Italian acronym for Temperatura, Umidità, Tempo e Ambiente (Temperature, Humidity, Time and Environment), essential conditions for imparting aromas and flavours to the cheese. A living material that must be respected and guided towards perfect transformation, which requires artisanal attention for every wheel, every batch, on every single day of production.

Ubriaco al Prosecco (“drunken” cheese) has a delicate, fresh and fruity taste with a pleasant acidic sensation. A cheese that can be described as suitable for the whole meal.

Cheese with a thin rind of ochre-yellow colour and a slightly eyed paste of straw-yellow colour. Semi-hard cheese, pleasant to the touch, it breaks easily into portions with irregular edges.

The fresh, citrusy notes imparted by the dry wine blend perfectly with the delicate fruity and vegetal scent typical of milk from local farms. The delicate taste is enriched by hints of citrus and green apple typical of dry-wine marc. The herbaceous and dried-fruit notes pair well for aperitifs accompanied by fresh, fruity wines.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ With Prosecco DOCG wine
✔ With fresh, fruity white wines
✔ For aperitivo, with fresh, fruity wines

✨ Discover Ubriaco® al Prosecco DOC: a delicate, fresh and fruity cheese, aged in Prosecco wine.

Pack of 200 g
Milk type: cow’s milk
Treatment: raw
Maturation: min. 4 months
Shelf life: 365 days
Pairing: white wines

Ingredients: Raw cow’s MILK, salt, rennet, lactic ferments, LYSOZYME (from EGG), “Prosecco DOC” wine (min. 0.1%) and grape marc (min. 0.1%) in the rind.

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1862 kJ / 449 kcal. FAT: 38 g (of which saturated fatty acids 27.2 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 0.85 g (of which sugars 0 g). PROTEIN: 26 g. SALT: 1 g.

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Ubriaco® di Raboso – semi-hard cheese aged in wine and grape marc

🧀 Semi-hard cheese aged in wine and Raboso IGT grape marc. Delicate flavour, with a pleasant vinous aftertaste.

The cheese Ubriaco di Raboso (“drunken” cheese) is the first creation by Antonio Carpenedo among his Cellar Cheeses, dating back to 1976, and it gave rise to the Ubriaco brand. A success more than 40 years old, during which experimentation and the compromise with high quality have never ceased.

Ubriaco di Raboso is a cow’s milk cheese with a rind that takes on the classic grape-marc colour, a testimony to the careful “ubriacatura” (wine-soaking) method that turns the paste a deep yellow with rare, small eyes.

Ubriaco di Raboso cheese gives fruity notes of wild blackberry and marasca cherry. The vinous notes are delicate and persistent, wrapped in a delicate but decisive, slightly spicy taste.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ With polenta
✔ With a crunchy piece of bread
✔ With a medium-bodied red wine
✔ With Radicchio Rosso di Treviso, a pairing of a unique territory

✨ Discover Ubriaco® di Raboso: a cheese with a delicate flavour, aged in wine and grape marc, with notes of wild blackberry and marasca cherry.

🥇 Awards:

• Spina d’Oro in 1996 at the dairy exhibition in Thiene
• 2nd place at the CASEUS VENETI 2013 competition, category “Cheeses Aged in Grape Marc (Formaggi affinati nelle vinacce)”
• 3rd place at the ALMA CASEUS 2014 competition, category “Emotion Cheeses (Formaggi emozione)”
• 🥉 Bronze at the World Cheese Awards 2015-16

Pack of 200 g
Milk type: cow’s milk
Treatment: pasteurised
Maturation: min. 12 months
Shelf life: 365 days
Pairing: red wines

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, lactic ferments, salt, rennet, preservative: LYSOZYME (from EGG). “Raboso IGT” wine (min. 0.1%) and crushed grapes (min. 0.1%) in the rind.

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1775 kJ / 428 kcal. FAT: 36 g (of which saturated fatty acids 25.62 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 1.07 g (of which sugars 0.13 g). PROTEIN: 26 g.

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Dolomitico® – blue cheese aged in beer, barley malt and walnuts

🧀 Blue cow’s milk cheese aged in beer, barley malt and walnuts.

Not just an experience of taste, but a journey, the story of an encounter, captured thanks to the creative talent of Antonio Carpenedo in this latest creation, Dolomitico.

1997, summer, an outing in the mountains he loves so much. It happens by chance, as so often in life, that Antonio meets the master brewer at the foot of the Dolomites, who manages to spark his curiosity.

He draws him passionately into a world largely unknown to him: beer.

A beer made with passion, combining local products such as barley and mountain water. The time of nature that rules supreme in the fermentation processes.

The patience of those who know how to wait for the right moment. He recognises himself in that way of conceiving flavours and decides to transfer the emotion of that encounter into his cheese.

Thus begins the adventure of experimenting, of waiting patiently for the result of many trials to one day taste the perfect Dolomitico, carefully aged, transformed with that unique beer, the protagonist of a chance encounter, a spark of creativity.

SIGHT: Of cylindrical proportions, it is uniformly amber in the rind with decidedly darker veins. When cut, it is milk-coloured and finely blue-veined, with a vertical prevalence of the moulds.

TOUCH: Extraordinarily pleasant to the touch, both for its size and for its consistency, which lies between semi-hard and soft. Easy to taste with your fingertips, a perfect blend of softness and density.

SMELL: On the nose it surprises with its cowshed smell, which blends finely with the decidedly pronounced malt in the rind, perfectly balanced in the paste, where the fermentations give a characteristic hint of barley.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ As a starter, with pork cured meats and lager beer
✔ In a fondue with vegetables
✔ With a savoury white wine or dry sparkling wine
✔ On pizza
✔ In very fresh salads with dried fruit, citrus and green apple

✨ Discover Dolomitico®: a blue cheese born from the meeting of Antonio Carpenedo and a master brewer, aged with beer and walnuts.

🏅 Awards: INFINITI BLU, the world of blue cheeses: Quality Diploma 2015, Higher Quality Diploma 2018.

Luxury pack of 150 g, tasting for 10 people
Milk type: pasteurised cow’s milk
Maturation: min. 50 days

Ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, WALNUTS min. 5%, salt, rennet, beer min. 0.1% (water, BARLEY malt, maize, hops) and BARLEY malt min. 0.1% in the rind (contains GLUTEN).

Allergens: MILK, WALNUTS, BARLEY

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product: Energy: 1604 kJ / 387 kcal. FAT: 32.5 g (of which saturated fatty acids 22.3 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 0.44 g (of which sugars 0 g). PROTEIN: 23.2 g. SALT: 1.6 g.

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Blu ’61® & Blu Gins® Kit – in Luxury pack of 150 g or in two half wheels

An artisan masterpiece for curious, refined palates.

The kit is available in two formats:
– Luxury pack, 150 g: 1 × Blu ’61® 150 g + 1 × Blu Gins® 150 g
– Two half wheels: 1 half wheel of Blu ’61®, 1.45 kg + 1 half wheel of Blu Gins®, 1.25 kg

What’s in the kit:
– Blu ’61® – 🧀 Blue cheese aged in “Raboso Passito IGT” wine with cranberries.
– Blu Gins® – 🧀 Cow’s milk blue cheese aged in Roby Marton Gin with a fine blend of spices in the rind. Decorated with white chocolate.

Blu ’61®: The ability to encompass 50 years of history and passion... Antonio Carpenedo’s magic with Blu ’61® knows no boundaries and literally conquers the world, amazing even the most demanding and sceptical palates. The art of marrying an elegant blue cheese with a native wine is part of the success of this splendid experience called Blu ’61®, aged in Raboso Passito and accompanied by fine cranberries in the rind. A true jewel to meditate on. 50 years of marriage to Giuseppina inspired Antonio to “freeze” his love in time.

Blu Gins®: As Antonio Carpenedo says, cheese always starts with an idea. Blugins was born on the occasion of Antonio’s 50th anniversary in the business. The family came up with an original idea: pairing cheeses with cocktails and, thanks also to the collaboration with a great Treviso bartender, specific cocktails were created for the occasion to go with our creations. From this path of strong innovation and research, the Carpenedo Family decided to share this project with Roberto Marton and his prestigious Gin.

💡 How to enjoy it:
✔ Blu ’61® with passito wines
✔ Blu Gins® with a Gin-based cocktail
✔ Both as cheeses for meditation

✨ Discover the kit: two signature blue cheeses, one with Raboso Passito and one with Gin, created by Antonio Carpenedo.

Blu ’61®
Format: Luxury pack of 150 g (tasting for 10 people) or half wheel of 1.45 kg
Milk type: cow’s milk
Treatment: pasteurised
Maturation: min. 2 months
Shelf life: 75 days
Pairing: passito wines

Blu ’61® ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, salt, lactic ferments, ripening ferments, rennet. Dried cranberries (cranberries, sugar, sunflower seed oil) (min. 4%) and “Raboso Passito IGT” wine (1%) in the rind.

Storage: +2 °C / +4 °C

Allergens: MILK

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product (Blu ’61®): Energy: 1529 kJ / 369 kcal. FAT: 31 g (of which saturated fatty acids 23 g). CARBOHYDRATES: 1.7 g (of which sugars 1.1 g). PROTEIN: 20 g. SALT: 2 g.

Blu Gins®
Format: Luxury pack of 150 g (tasting for 10 people) or half wheel of 1.25 kg
Milk type: pasteurised cow’s milk
Maturation: min. 4 months

Blu Gins® ingredients: Pasteurised cow’s MILK, white chocolate min. 5% (cocoa butter min. 33%, MILK powder, sugar, emulsifiers: SOY lecithin, vanilla extract), salt, rennet, lactic ferments, Roby Marton Gin (min. 3.5%) and mixture of spices (in variable proportions): star anise, cardamom, juniper berries, ginger (min. 0.1%) in the rind.

Allergens: MILK, SOY

Average nutritional values per 100 g of product (Blu Gins®): Energy: 1550 kJ / 374 kcal. FAT: 31.5 g (of which saturated fatty acids 22.3 g). Fat in dry matter (D.M.): min. 50%. CARBOHYDRATES: 1.4 g (of which sugars 0 g). PROTEIN: 21.2 g. SALT: 2.9 g.

📌 Price and weight information (half wheels).

The price shown for the “two half wheels” option refers to the average weight of the two wheels: Blu ’61® 1.45 kg and Blu Gins® 1.25 kg.

When you place your order, the amount charged is based on the average weight shown on the product page.

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