LemonGino

The name derives from the union of the two ingredients that characterize its refinement, namely Gin and Lemon, but we did not want to call it Gin Lemon so as not to confuse it with the Calabrian cocktail, even if in reality a certain familiarity.

It is a small goat’s milk cheese weighing around 80 grams with a soft texture and slightly flowery rind, which is refined with Gin, whose characteristics are the citrus component and the combination with Sorrento lemons, both the essential oil than candied peel. A juniper grain is then placed in the center to release the small bitter note.

The result is a cheese with a full and persistent flavour, the predominant acidity of which is; it should be tasted in small pieces, perhaps trying to savor it with a small piece of lemon peel to harmonize the power of the characteristic hyrcine of the cheese. It is offered in a small terracotta, not because it needs to be heated, but it serves to keep the cheese as moist as possible and also make it pleasant to present.

Being a seasonal, experimental cheese, but above all due to the very low production volumes, the maturation is not always the same, in fact you may find forms in which the gin tends to make the product cream and make it even more mature or to make it more dry and as if it helped to remove the humidity. This underlines that the product is alive.

All’Ombra della Madonnina won the Superior Quality Award in 2024.