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Quattro Portoni

Lombardy water-buffalo dairy. Specializes in buffalo-milk cheeses beyond mozzarella — buffalo Camembert, Brie, blue, aged.

Founded
1996
Location
Cologno al Serio, BG, Italy
Category
Italian producer
Price tier
Premium
Founder
Bruno & Alfio Gritti

Founded in 1996 by Bruno and Alfio Gritti in Lombardy's Bergamo province, Quattro Portoni is the most editorially significant water-buffalo dairy producing cheeses outside the mozzarella di bufala tradition. Their range includes Casatica di Bufala (small bloomy-rind buffalo Brie), Quadrello di Bufala (washed-rind), Blu di Bufala (blue-veined buffalo), and Buffalo Caciotta. The buffalo herd is the largest in northern Italy; the dairy operates with high welfare standards visible to visitors. Water-buffalo milk produces distinctly different cheese character than cow's milk (richer, sweeter, more fat) — Quattro Portoni demonstrates this in categories where buffalo milk had not historically been used.

Editorial note
US availability via specialty importers; widely respected by US mongers.

What this brand focuses on

Water-buffalo milkBloomy rind buffaloWashed rind buffaloBlue buffalo
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