The name Fresco Cheese is synonymous with fine cheeses and creative cooking.  Nestled in the south-east corner of Queensland, it is regarded to be one of Australia's leading and most creative speciality cheese manufacturers. Since it's establishing in 1987, Fresco Cheese Co. has been committed to uphold the highest standards of quality in the making of cheese.

Having emigrated from Italy, Walter Antonucci changed from being a research scientist into the arena of making cheese and thus a family business was established.  What was originally a one-man operation has turn into a solid family business.

Fresco Cheese Co. sources its raw materials of the finest quality, exclusively from the rich, unspoiled local dairy country in the hinterland of the popular holiday capital of Australia.  The company upholds the traditions and preserves the history of both Italian and Australian cheese making.  Staff are trained individually.

Walter Antonucci
Managing Director
Fresco Cheese Co.Pty Ltd

Fresco Cheese Co is dedicated to be an educational resource for Australian cheese makers and the public.  Through sharing knowledge and experience on cheese making as a hobby or as a commercial enterprise with special attention given to Speciality and Farmhouse cheeses made from all types of milk, including cow's, and goat's milk.  Encouraging consumption through better education on the sensory pleasures of cheese and its nutritional values. Today, quality and taste are still the hallmarks of the company's products.

Traditional, boutique cheeses is produced with usage of traditional methods, modern technology and careful monitoring, which in turn produces consistent quality products. 

The high quality raw materials vary from places such as Europe, due to the fact that the cows are free range.  The  milk is slightly more yellow than that of Europe.  Air, water and feed play an enormous part in the product you end up with.   Fresh cheese always displays any variance to the full as through maturation, cheeses generally become more standard in colour.  No chemical preservatives,  artificial colours nor bleaches are used to whiten the cheese.  The product is totally natural.

The executive staff uses knowledge in microbiology, biology research and chemistry the quest for innovative solutions is forever paramount. The environment is of enormous concern to the Company, continually experimenting with different ways to solve many issues.  Winning the Queensland Innovation Prize for the Solution of Whey Waste in 1998.

Winning many Australian Awards, both National and State, Fresco Cheese always endeavours to create new exciting cheeses for the gourmet palate and a continual improvement of existing products.  Fresco Cheese provides cheese to the Australian and Export markets.

Fresco Cheese Co. produces a number of different labels.   It produces two brand names of their own, Fresco Cheese and Nucci.  The brand Nucci was born out of an overwhelming need of the market to have more adventurous cheeses, all of the high standard required for export together with the exacting quality of promotion for the retail arena.