The Most Dangerous and Unusual Wines and Cheeses

[Music] on the Italian island of Sardinia there is a delicacy that has been consumed for thousands of years it is known as the world's most dangerous cheese yeah you heard right [Music] meet Simona IVA a third-generation sheep farmer demo chick the chanchan quantization top a current approval changmo last request ona party questo lot a lute Elysium fr Adele formaggio kazuma's kazoo marzu literally means rotten cheese and it's not for the faint of heart because this cheese is infested with thousands of live maggots and while that might seem a bit off-putting at first it's the maggots that give the cheese its distinctive texture and flavor here's how it works first a traditional wheel of pecorino cheese is made from sheep's milk then a special fly called a cheese fly is allowed to lay its eggs in it in the journey la forma será completamente in basel de las calles are at the lacewing larvae over the course of two three months the maggots eat the cheese and then excreted out again transforming it into the soft and creamy Kazu Marzu / support began in sephora reverse Gustav passed also la voce fala monster today it's a favorite for special occasions like weddings and birthday parties but eating this cheese can be dangerous second local coudl very continuous evil internal nanak hosi say no sorry mo PA de vere me no but can imagine mode on Evita even though cases like this are extremely rare it's risky enough that the cheese is illegal to sell the farmers like Simona continue to make it for themselves don't poke aquila get fun on college for money much but our loss and promo shoot on your non lucano shoot mean only in the Hz and they just can't get enough for much a match for prosciutto 1580 Milan la morte soon you cork it's the miracle tree bark that's found in everything from baseball bats to spaceships but it's best known as the last obstacle in your journey to drink wine yes sometimes decor can can feel like a chore no I'm not talking about popping up in a wine bottle I'm talking about how cork is harvested in the first place by these guys manual cork harvesters in Portugal it's a job so difficult and yet so artful machines have yet to render an absolute welcome to Portugal where cork is the national tree cork is native to the Mediterranean Basin but nowhere does it grow more than here part of all have 35% of all our trees in the world history needs a very special conditions of humidity and hot weather since cork trees can live for 200 years Gonzales trees are the exact same trees his parents grandparents and great-grandparents also care for [Music] the pork harvesting is a process that can only be done by hand the man's work always in team of tools first they cut the tree like Taylor they draw the tree with several cards to open the cork when they threw the axe they also twist the hand to open the cork after that with the side of the blade they will open and super the cork from the tree [Music] comics Tom desert sighs I talk about pork and adequate water concurrent across color confirm is considered odd sheersha grams of interior compartment compartments Gustad [Music] STM passenger a sample jarasandha Evod manera de sin the pillows coarseness our spoon of free deserve along distance toad shock mudo for Escada the carrot Madeira sauce Taral menu the men's learn from quite young to just cut the cork and doesn't get the lair of the cork tree if the men get the lair that's a problem they will harm the tree and open and enters for bugs and other disease [Music] once a tree is harvested it won't be cut again for another nine years this keeps the bark healthy and the harvest tradition alive for the generations to come to all our generations we take care of our trees like we take care of our sons this is very important for us let's say your cheese producer and you need a loan because you want to buy a tractor or food for your cows or really just about anything there's a bank in Italy that will take your cheese and give you cash this is the story of three men and millions of dollars worth of cheese meat mouth Tom he's a cheese producer in the emiliano region of Italy he produces parmigiano-reggiano the so-called king of cheese 3000 wheels holy cow that's a lot of cheese when matter or another cheese producer in this part of Italy needs a loan they go to create Emiliano a big Italian bank and like any bank elite Emiliano needs collateral for the loan cosy yearly dunya for Mad Dog and to do that he talks to Fausto ciao he works for credit Emiliano Yamuna Bank a traditional h'mong Kuna banker Viva a sustained oh they purgatory the parmigiano Reggiano parmigiano Reggiano is a special kind of cheese because it needs to be aged for 18 to 36 months and will to be worth thousands of dollars make me the safe long-term investment for the bank the Chula Vista little parmigiano-reggiano pero esto tipo de programa de Gracia a simplemente the root alpha took a crystal product or traditional meant a typical parody ran a theme for 40 quasi una Corda questa territorial to be clear the bank doesn't store the valuable cheese in its vaults next to gold bars and stacks of cash they have a special cheese warehouse down the road with thousands and thousands of wheels of cheese that's why Roberto comes in he's a general director of the tagliata general warehouses that's where credit emiliano stores their cheese Mucha Pena bakura will form a super Cordova cliente revert to his team take care of more than three hundred thousand wheels of cheese that's currently worth more than 160 million euros without proper care cheese closest value titanium all investing means au de la tienda product reach a queenly bala mool Covino alabanza well roberto sounds to me like the cow the bank and the cheese aren't good hands the average visitor Anapa doesn't look vineyards and think of barn owls [Music] they think of wine and wine tasting but owls are really part of this whole process walking up to an owl box and hearing the babies hissing is pretty scary sounding and then you just pull out this little fluffy owl they're gonna grow up to be wrote it devouring machines my name is Kerry went I'm a wildlife biologist I was in the last couple years driving around visiting hundreds of al boxes on 65 vineyards in Napa Valley to better understand how barn owls and vineyards can coexist without owls the rodent population would explode and they would cause a lot more damage to vineyards so here's a couple of skull they pulled out of the box this is proof that they're eating rodents using barn owls to reduce rodent populations on vineyards is the alternative way to kill rodents grow up to be big and strong eat lots of Gophers the mainstream conventional way of killing rodents is to apply rodenticides the rodenticides are really harmful so using owls is definitely the sustainable eco-friendly way to reduce rodents you have to have a special permit to have these bands and to be able to band birds each band is an individual number so it's an individual identification for that one bird that won't ever be on a different bird my colleagues are currently using GPS tags and motion-detecting cameras to paint a fuller picture of how barn elves may provide pest control services and vineyards we're banding them to see where they're nesting when we capture the adult birds to put GPS trackers on them we want them to stay as calm as possible so we put an adorable hat over their eyes you don't put them over we found this silly owl hat and he thought it was perfect [Music] there are so many opportunities for vineyard owners to enhance wildlife habitat on their vineyards that's mutually beneficial and I think providing barn owl nest boxes on vineyards is a perfect example of how that relationship can flourish [Music]

Channel: Great Big Story

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Keywords: great big story, gbs, lag, documentary, docs, wine, cheese, wine & cheese, alcohol, yeast, maggot, aged, winery, napa, owl, glass, cork, sardinian, bread, snack, drink, New Releases, Great Big Reels, Food & Drink, food, Flavors

Id: vOqjcgHhtZs

Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 23 2019