Formaggio d'Antigorio al Prunent is a 'homemade' Ossola toma cheese - that is, from the valley floor - produced by a small Ossola dairy: it is immersed for a short time in the must of the area's typical vine, 'Prunent' (a variety of Nebbiolo), which does not penetrate the cheese, but flavours it and colours the rind. This is a recent process, but one that combines a cheese and a wine with centuries of history behind it.
For the refinement of Toma Ossolana al Prunent, Guffanti has recovered, in the small mountain village of Oira, not far from Domodossola, a 17th-century cellar annexed to the local dairy turnaria.
The flavour? Intense, spicy, with notes of fruit and wine, ideal to accompany spicy pumpkin mostarda, black rye bread, polenta, full-bodied and aromatic red wines and Recioto jelly.
Since this is an artisanal product and cannot be standardised, the images are purely illustrative.