Burgonzola: the love child of burrata and gorgonzola
Dream of cheese. Dream of pillowy, creamy burrata, the prettier big sister of mozzarella. And dream of gorgonzola, bold, spicy and creamy all at once. And while you have your eyes closed, dream of the love child of the two. Can you picture it? That’s burgonzola, too delicious to be true.
Two brothers in Puglia, the heel of Italy, made this brilliant discovery. They combined burrata, a cheese from the south, with gorgonzola from the north. Combined? Yes, literally—the gorgonzola is inside the burrata. The result is amazing: a creamy little ball of cheese that, when you cut it open, glistens with blue-green mould cheese. The strong, spicy flavour of the gorgonzola is softened by the burrata.
Burgonzola inventor
Giovanni Visconti is the inventor. A customer of his cheesemaking business simply suggested the idea, and Giovanni and his brother kept experimenting, tasting and testing until the burgonzola was completely perfect. Unfortunately, it is not yet available for sale in the Netherlands; we can only taste it at the brothers’ cheesemaking business in southern Italy. True cheese lovers put it on their life goals list and dream of their next holiday to Italy…
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