Trnič cheese is made on a high mountain pasture in northern Slovenia. According to legend, lonely dairymen thought of their wives when shaping the pieces and designed them especially lovingly.

Cheese from the Adriatic Alps

Bernhard Degen, 25.09.2021

Cheese production in the Adriatic Alps has developed over many centuries. Each valley has its unique speciality but they all share the same mountainous obstacles.

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Without dairy farmers and cheese makers who work with the utmost love and passion we would not have the outstanding products that we so often find in top international gastronomy. The sheep's cheeses of the Nuart family from Austria's Lower Carinthia region are so popular that you have to pre-book them. Their famous 'Black Sheep', a fresh cream cheese rolled in wood ash and sea salt is always in high demand. The fact that the Nuarts use sea salt instead of mountain salt shows their attachment to the Adriatic.

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