Lardo di Colonnata PGI La Valle is a grand and exemplary expression of lardo di Colonnata, a historic humble side dish for the local marble quarrymen’s snack. White, vivid and shiny, it looks just like marble shining in the sun. On the nose it exudes inebriating sweet and savoury aromas of fresh fat, so precise that it doesn’t even seem greasy, accompanied by light garlic and a wide range of fresh and focused balsamic notes, intense but not invasive, attributable to the blend of herbs and spices with which the lard has shared the basin.