Description
The fifth generation of master dairymen of the De Gennaro family continues to pursue with tenacity a profession that is disappearing and a heritage of traditions and experiences that guarantee authentic and original products of excellence. The result of the commitment of the De Gennaro family is an authentic and unique product of its kind. The cheeses are treated in a natural way, thanks to the cultural heritage that the family has been able to protect and pass on over the years. Over time, the Dairy has preserved an ethical approach to the transformation of raw materials, balancing the tradition of craftsmanship with modern manufacturing technologies, which aim at zero-kilometer and eco-sustainable production. The careful selection of breeders and raw materials guarantees a cheese with a unique taste, capable of telling the history and flavors of the Sorrento Peninsula and Campania. The milk of the Agerolesi cows is transformed and processed in the same day to create the gastronomic wonders of the Dairy De Gennaro.
A curiosity: the Agerolese cow is an endemic breed of the Lattari Mountains and the Sorrento Peninsula; its 500 remaining specimens produce a fine milk providing the ingredient par excellence of the dairy products of this area. The Agerola Cow was included at the center of the regional project “native breeds at risk of extinction”, a plan for the protection and safeguarding of the biodiversity of breeds, with the aim of avoiding the loss of virtually unrepeatable genetic heritage. This is how from the need to use a milk with peculiar characteristics, it was possible to link the safeguarding of a race in danger of extinction to a dairy product of particular value.
