Grana Padano

29 July 2021

Grana Padano was made around A.D. 1000 by monks of Chiaravalle Abbey, in the south of Milan, who created a recipe that was able to guarantee hard cheese with high nutritional principles and a soft- but also strong – flavour.

Monks named this cheese Caseus Vetus (old cheese) but among common people, who didn’t have familiarity with Latin language, it was called “Grana” because of its crumbly texture – in Italian, granulosità -.

Standard Tech with its high technological systems designed thanks to multiple experiences in this field is able to create, inside cheese ripening chambers, an ideal eco-sustainable microclimate to guarantee the correct ageing of this cheese, which in 1996 received the PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) label from the European Union.