The Parmigiano vault: How Italyâs âcheese banksâ power a 4 billion euro industry
What are the most valuable assets for a country â gold, silver, currency? In Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, the answer looks far less conventional. Here, vast climate-controlled warehouses store one of the regionâs most unusual forms of wealth: hundreds of thousands of wheels of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese, slowly ageing and quietly getting more valuable over timeTo…