Bra Cheese Festival

Bra

International Cheese Festival

The 4 day International Cheese Festival at Bra, hosted by the Slow Food Movement, is held every other year.

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In the main cheese hall at the Bra Festival

Cows, sheep and goats; a mini-beer festival. Wine, of course....and cheese, lots of it, from all over the world. It is difficult to know where to start.

Admission to the Great Hall of Cheese, under the porticos of Corso Garibaldi, is a good place to begin. Admission is 8 euros, and you receive a wine glass and carrying pouch, a hunk of a huge wheel of cheese (picture on the left) and two glasses of wine. One wine you choose, to drink with your cheese, the other is a moscato, to freshen the palate afterwards.

The wine catalogue for the Great Hall lists 1,317 different wines, all Italian, so choosing can be difficult. This must be the wine list to end them all.

Next to the Great Hall, is the 'House of Blues', hosting 68 different blue cheeses from all over the world. The blue cheeses are 1 euro a taste, and there are another 128 wines - this time an international selection of champagnes, spumantes, ports, sherries and dessert wines, to drink with them. To compete the theme, a guitarist quietly strums and sings blues melodies whilst you enjoy your tasting.

Outside the Great Hall, under the watchful eye of Bra's beautiful baroque churches, a chocolatier is conducting market research - free samples - and a stage has been erected in the Piazza per la Liberta for the musical entertainment in the evening.

A school playground has been taken over by different districts and areas to promote their produce; we enjoyed coffee and kirsch cake served by Bra's twin town in Switzerland whist we listened to some accomplished alpine horn playing; we also tasted malt whisky from Scotland.

The stalls continue along the adjoining streets leading to the Piazza Carlo Alberto which has been turned into one huge market, with producers attending from around the world. Naturally, this included the UK and we were delighted to be able to stock up on some very nice Caerphilly, much-missed Stilton and the best Red Leicester we have ever tasted.

And Bob got the chance to say "If I asked you for a quarter of a pound, would you know what I mean ?"

As befits an International Festival of this standing, the organisation was exemplary, including the provision of the free 'park and ride' facilities.

E mail: kerrie@anitalianadventure.co.uk

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