Latteria Sociale di Branzi Casearia - Val Brembana (BG) - Lombardy

On the beginning of economic boom, after the second world war, Giacomo Midali, a local cheese-maker, started a project to enhance local cheese productions and he founded Branzi Dairy. At that time the project was joined by two hundred small producers and breeders. Nowadays the cooperative in managed bu Giacomo's grand children and it is still collecting milk produced by small farms that work only for Branzi Dairy. The milkcollected is obtained from cows of Bruna breed that graze over 600m of altitude giving a rich and fragrant milk that will be entrusted to the hands of expert cheese-makers to produce Branzi following the traditional production techniques.