List of Italian DOP cheeses

This List of DOP Italian cheeses includes all the Italian cheeses which have denominazione di origine protetta ("protected designation of origin", or DOP), status under European Union regulations. All of the existing "DO" cheeses were registered by the EU as "DOP" cheeses during the course of 1996.

Pecorino Sardo

Mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella) DOP)

Prior to 1996 when the PDO system came into operation, many Italian cheeses were regulated under a denominazione di origine (DO) system, which arose out of the 1951 Stresa Conference and was established under the Italian law 125/54. These appellations of origin were recognized in a number of European countries with which Italy had bilateral agreements. The international framework of recognition was further developed, and extended from cheese to include other agricultural products, by the Lisbon Convention of 1958, and the modifications made to it at Stockholm in 1967, and by the TRIPS accord of 1994.

Italian DOP cheeses

The following table indicates for each cheese the year in which it acquired DO status (where applicable), the year of DOP registration and the approximate area within which the regulations permit it to be produced.

Key to acronyms

• DO: Denominazione di Origine (Appellation of Origin)
• DOP: Denominazione di Origine Protetta (PDO, or Protected Designation of Origin)
• DPR: Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica (Presidential Decree)
• DPCM: Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio (Prime-ministerial Decree)
• PDO: Protected Designation of Origin

List of DOP Italian cheeses

Name and styles	DO	DOP	Milk	Production zone
					Provinces
Asiago  Asiago d'allevo "mezzano"  Asiago d'allevo "vecchio"  Asiago pressato	1978	1996	Cow	Veneto	Padua (part), Treviso (part), Vicenza
				Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Trentino
Bitto	1995	1996	Cow (80%) Goat (20%)	Lombardy	Bergamo, Sondrio
Bra  dura  tenera  di Alpeggio	1982	1996	Cow	Piedmont	Cuneo, Turin
Caciocavallo Silano	1993	1996	Cow	Apulia	Bari, Taranto, Brindisi
				Calabria	Crotone, Catanzaro, Cosenza
				Campania	Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Naples
				Molise	(Entire territory)
				Basilicata	Matera, Potenza
Canestrato Pugliese	1985	1996	Sheep	Apulia	Province of Foggia
Casatella Trevigiana		2008	Cow	Veneto	Treviso
Casciotta d'Urbino[1]	1982	1996	Sheep (70%–80%) Cow (20%–30%)	Marche	Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Castelmagno	1982	1996	Cow Sheep and/or Goat (optionally a little)	Piedmont	Cuneo
Fiore Sardo[2]	1955	1996	Sheep	Sardinia	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Fontina	1955	1996	Cow	Aosta Valley	(Entire territory)
Formaggella del Luinese		2011	Goat	Lombardy	Varese (Alpine foothills in the north of the province)[3]
Formaggio di Fossa di Sogliano[4]		2009	Sheep and/or Cow	Emilia-Romagna	Bologna (part), Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna, Rimini
				Marche	Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Macerata, Pesaro-Urbino
Formai de Mut from Alta Valle Brembana	1985	1996	Cow	Lombardy	Bergamo
Gorgonzola	1955	1996	Cow	Piedmont	Novara, Vercelli,
				Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia
Grana Padano	1955	1996	Cow	Lombardy	Lodi, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Mantova (to the north of the Po), Milan, Pavia, Sondrio, Lecco, Varese
				Piedmont	Alessandria, Asti, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Vercelli
				Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Trento
				Veneto	Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona, Vicenza
				Emilia-Romagna	Bologna (east of the Reno), Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena, Piacenza, Ravenna, Rimini
Montasio[5]	1986	1996	Cow	Friuli-Venezia Giulia	Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, Trieste
				Veneto	Belluno, Treviso, Padua, Venice
Monte Veronese	1993	1996	Cow	Veneto	Verona
Mozzarella di Bufala Campana	1993	1996	Italian buffalo	Apulia	Province of Foggia
				Campania	Province of Caserta, Province of Salerno, Province of Naples, Province of Benevento
				Lazio	Province of Frosinone, Province of Latina, province of Rome
				Molise	Venafro
Murazzano	1982	1986	Sheep (60%–100%) Cow (0%–40%)	Piedmont	Province of Cuneo
Parmigiano-Reggiano	1955	1996	Cow	Emilia‑Romagna	Modena, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Bologna (west of the Reno)
				Lombardy	Mantova (south of the Po)
Pecorino di Filiano		2007	Sheep	Basilicata	Potenza
Pecorino Romano	1955	1996	Sheep	Lazio	Rome
				Tuscany	Grosseto
				Sardinia	(Entire Region)
Pecorino Sardo	1991	1996	Sheep	Sardinia	Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Pecorino Siciliano	1955	1996	Sheep	Sicily	(Entire territory)
Pecorino Toscano[6]	1986	1996	Sheep	Tuscany	Arezzo, Pisa, Massa Carrara, Livorno, Grosseto, Firenze, Prato, Lucca, Pistoia, Siena
Piacentinu Ennese[7]		2011	Sheep	Sicily	Enna (only within the commune of Enna)
Piave[8][9]		2010	Cow	Veneto	Province of Belluno
Provolone del Monaco[10]		2010	Cow	Campania	Naples
Provolone Valpadana	1993	1996	Cow	Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Mantova, Milan
				Veneto	Padua, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza
				Emilia‑Romagna	Piacenza
				Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Trento
Quartirolo Lombardo	1993	1996	Cow	Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia, Varese
Ragusano	1995	1996	Cow	Sicily	Ragusa, Syracuse
Raschera	1982	1996	Cow Sheep and/or Goat (optionally a little)	Piedmont	Cuneo
Ricotta Romana[11]		2005		Lazio	(Entire territory)
Robiola di Roccaverano	1979	1996	Cow (max 85%) Sheep and/or Goat (min 15%)	Piedmont	Provinces of Alessandria, Asti
Salva Cremasco[12]		2011	Cow	Lombardy	Lowlands of Cremasco, Bergamo and Brescia
Spressa delle Giudicarie[13]		2003	Cow	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	Western Trentino
Stelvio or Stilfser		2007	Cow	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol	South Tyrol
Taleggio[14]	1988	1996	Cow	Lombardy	Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia
				Veneto	Treviso
				Piedmont	Novara
Toma Piemontese[15]	1993	1996	Cow	Piedmont	Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Vercelli
Valle d'Aosta Fromadzo (or Vallée d'Aoste Fromadzo)[16]	1995	1996	Cow	Aosta Valley	(Entire territory)
Valtellina Casera	1995	1996	Cow	Lombardy	Sondrio
Vastedda della valle del Belìce[17]		2010	Sheep	Sicily	Agrigento (part), Trapani (part), Palermo (part)

Applications under consideration

Applications have been made for DOP status in the case of the following cheeses:

• Nostrano di Valle Trompia, a cows' milk cheese, coloured with saffron, produced in the Valle Trompia region of the Province of Brescia (Lombardy)[18] The application was submitted on 22 September 2010.[19]
• Pecorino di Picinisco, a sheep's milk cheese (with the optional inclusion of up to 25% goats' milk), produced in the Valle di Comino region of the Province of Frosinone (Lazio).[20] The application was submitted on 28 February 2011.[21]
• Squacquerone di Romagna, a cows' milk cheese from the region of Emilia-Romagna in the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena, Rimini and Bologna, and in part of the Province of Ferrara.[22] The application was submitted on 4 December 2009.[23]

See also

• Italian cuisine
• List of Italian cheeses

Notes

1. www.formaggio.it, Casciotta d'Urbino''
2. www.formaggio.it, Fiore Sardo
3. Official Journal of the European Union, C 220/18, 14 August 2010.
4. Official Journal of the European Union, C 108/15, 12 May 2009
5. For DO date see DPR 10.3.86, quoted in www.formaggio.it, Montasio
6. www.formaggio.it, Pecorino Toscano
7. 'Piacentinu di Enna Piacentinu Ennese Dop', Atlante dei prodotti tipici, Formaggi tipici italiani
8. Official Journal of the European Union, C 234/20, 29 September, 2009 2010.
9. 'Piave DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
10. 'Provolone del Monaco DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
11. www.agraria.org, Ricotta Romana
13. http://www.agraria.org, Spressa delle Giudicarie
14. For DO date see www.formaggio.it, Taleggio which quotes from DPR 15.9.88
15. DPCM 10.5.93, quoted in www.formaggio.it, Toma Piemontese
16. www.formaggio.it, Valle d'Aosta Fromadzo, www.milkonline.com, Disciplinari Archived 17 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine and www.inalto.org, Vallée d'Aoste Fromadzo DOP Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine seem to be correct in dating the DO to 1995. www.formaggio.it, Formaggi Italiani DOP e STG, however, has 1955
17. Vastedda della Valle del Belice DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
18. 'Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Protetta «Nostrano di Valle Trompia»', Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
19. DOOR database entry
20. 'Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Protetta "Pecorino di Picinisco D.O.P.', Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
21. DOOR database entry.
22. Disciplinare di produzione Squacquerone di Romagna DOP, Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
23. DOOR database entry.

References

• Useful sources for the dates of recognition and copies of the production regulations for many of these cheeses include:
  • www.formaggio.it, Formaggi Italiani DOP e STG
  • European Commission DOOR database