Experience the rich history and craftsmanship of Parmesan cheese with a guided tour of a traditional, family-run dairy using sustainable, organic methods. Your guide will introduce you to their closed-loop system, starting from organic feed in the fields to the high-quality milk used for authentic Parmesan. You’ll witness the entire cheesemaking process, from curdling and shaping to forming the iconic wheels. Next, explore the aging warehouse, where over 6,000 cheese wheels are stored for months, developing complex flavors. Learn how aging from 12 to over 36 months enhances texture and taste. The second part of the tour is a tasting of Parmesan at different ages, from mild to sharp, nutty profiles. This highlights how flavor evolves over time. To complement the cheese, enjoy a pairing with DOC Lambrusco, a sparkling red wine from Emilia-Romagna, with bright, fruity notes and refreshing acidity.
In demand: 20 of the next 63 departures are already sold out.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 7.
Tour a traditional Parmesan factory, witness the production process, with a tasting of cheeses at different stages of aging, perfectly paired with wine Lambrusco DOC, 15 minutes driving from Modena city center.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Parmesan Cheese Tour and Tasting in Modena lasts about 1 hour. The itinerary has 1 stop.
Prices start at $56 per person for this Modena experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. There are 2 booking options, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, starting at 9:00 AM, 10:30 AM, and 4:30 PM.
Children aged 0–12 pay from $33, adults from $56.
It can: 20 of the next 63 departures are already sold out, so booking ahead is a good idea.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
The meeting point is Follow Google Maps directions for reaching “Antica Latteria Ducale”, Enter, show your ticket and the guide will welcome you. Hotel pickup is not part of this experience.
The experience is available in EN, IT.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 15 participants.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
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Really good experience. Fantastic guide. Pedagogical in every way. Warm recommendation. Expensive but worth the money.
Tusind tak for din flotte anmeldelse! Vi er glade for, at du havde en fantastisk og lærerig oplevelse, og at vores guide gjorde turen særlig. Tak for din varme anbefaling – vi håber at byde dig velkommen igen!
The guide was excellent very nice experience I highly recommended. Very informative
Thank you so much for your kind words! We're thrilled to hear that you had a great experience and found the guide informative. Your recommendation means a lot to us.
Great tour, knowlegeable guide. But must make your own way to location.
Thank you for your kind words! We're glad you enjoyed the tour and found the guide knowledgeable. And yes, you have to make your own way to the location as transportation is not included. Cheers!
Amazing tour of a small family owned Parmigiano Reggiano cheese maker! It was so interesting and finished testing amazing cheese and wine. Highly recommend!
Thank you so much for your kind words! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed the tour and had a great experience tasting our cheese and wine. We truly appreciate your recommendation!
It was an afternoon tour, so I didn't see the craftsmen actually working on it. Morning tours are recommended. After being explained, we were shown how it was in salt water after being put into the mold and the storage area, and we tasted it. The storage room was amazing. We took a bus from the center of Modena. It was a simple route, but it wasn't that easy, which made it an exciting adventure. The other participants came by car.
ご感想をお寄せいただき、ありがとうございます。午後のツアーでは職人さんの作業風景をご覧いただけなかったとのこと、残念に思います。次回はぜひ午前のツアーもご検討ください。塩水に浸す工程や貯蔵庫の見学、試食もお楽しみいただけたようで嬉しいです。貯蔵庫の圧巻の様子も気に入っていただけて何よりです。 また、モデナの中心地からのバスの旅もエキサイティングな体験となったとのこと、素敵な思い出になったことと思います。他の参加者の方々が車で来られていた中、ご自身の冒険を楽しまれたご様子が伝わってきます。今後もお客様に喜んでいただけるツアーを提供できるよう努めてまいります。
Our guide was knowledgeable and enthusiast about the process of making Parmesan. She relaid the information well to the group. The problem was young children on our tour that kept interrupting the poor guide and throwing her off course. This tour is not really suitable for young children
Thank you for sharing your positive feedback. We're glad to hear that our guide was knowledgeable and passionate about the Parmesan-making process and that she communicated the information well. We apologize for the interruptions caused by the young children on the tour, but this didn't depend on her or the tour. We appreciate your understanding and hope you enjoyed the rest of your visit.
I cannot begin to state how much my partner and I enjoyed this. While the tour is short, it is informative and it gives you all the insight to the process and how a small family business makes some of the best cheese in the world (in our opinion). The tasting was amazing and opened my eyes to just how good cheese could be, and our tour guide was super sweet and was great company. With 2 weeks spent in various parts of Italy, this will be one of the highlights and something I talk about for a long time. If you are debating it, it’s worth it, and you get every penny, cent, or form of currency you pay for. I bought 1.5 kilos of 24 month Parmesan personally because I felt I couldn’t get enough, and my partner bout 1kg. It’s a lovely tour, business, and experience. It’s with the time.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful experience! We're thrilled to hear that you and your partner enjoyed the tour and tasting so much. It's always rewarding to know that our visitors appreciate the craftsmanship and passion behind our small family business. Your kind words about our guide and the quality of our cheese mean a lot to us. We're glad that this visit stood out during your time in Italy and that you left with such memorable flavours and impressions. We hope to welcome you back someday and share even more of our story and cheese with you. Safe travels and cheers to many more delicious moments!
Our guide was excellent-good sense of humor, knowledgeable and excellent English. We were there early to watch them pull the cheese out of the bath at the start, which I highly recommend. Be forewarned that if you are sensitive to smell, there are lots of overpowering ones happening all around!
Thank you for sharing your experience! We're glad you enjoyed the guide's sense of humor and knowledge, and that you appreciated the early visit to see the cheese being pulled from the bath—that's definitely a must-see. We also appreciate the heads-up about the strong smells; it's good for future visitors to be prepared. Hope to see you again soon!
The morning tour was great! We got to see them taking the cheese curd from the vats and putting it in the rounds. The process was fascinating and the fact that every part of the milk is used for a purpose. There was no waste and the product you got to taste at the end was spectacular. The quality control is quite impressive.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the tour and found the cheese-making process fascinating. It's wonderful to know that you appreciated our commitment to using every part of the milk and minimizing waste. We're also glad that you enjoyed tasting the final product and that our quality control impressed you. We hope to see you again soon!
We arrived in time to see the cheese being made. You have to schedule the tour early, around 8 to 8:30 to see the cheese being made. They only make 10 wheels per day so when they are finished, that is it for the day. The history and the process of Parmesan cheese is explained and seeing the storage is impressive. Recommended.
Thank you for your detailed review! I'm glad you enjoyed the cheese-making tour and found the history and process of Parmesan interesting. Scheduling early in the morning is definitely the best way to see the cheese being made, especially since they produce only 10 wheels per day. It's great to hear you found the storage impressive as well. Your recommendation is much appreciated!
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parmesan Cheese Tour and Tasting in Modena | 1 hour | 4.9 (16) | $56 | |
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