Shopping Valle d’Aosta al gusto di Fontina e Fromazdo

Among the many good addresses, stands out, in the capital Aosta, La Maison de la Fontine, one of the oldest cheesemongers and the only maturing shop in the city. The underground premises, cool and kept at constant humidity, house small and selected productions from the alpine pastures of St.Oyen, from Col Collon, at 2700 meters altitude, and from the Alta Val Peline. Right here, in the locality Frissioniè re, nests another excellent address: The Cooperativa Produttori Latte e Fontina, founded in 1956, which gathers 300 members and markets a good part of the Aosta Valley Fontina. Worth a visit is its aging center inside the old copper mine of Preslong, active until the end of 1940, 6 km long, whose temperature and humidity conditions have proven optimal for cheese maturation. At the entrance, a visitor center has also been set up, with exhibition areas on history, environment, and processing, multimedia stations, and a comfortable sales point, where you can buy not only Fontina, but also Fromazdo, the second regional PDO, a similarly tasty cheese, but a little less fatty than its famed “cousin”.