In 1876 Luigi Guffanti near the lake Madzhiore in the province Varese purchased the old abandoned mine in which once extracted silver. He learned that the fixed temperature and a certain level of humidity is maintained in this mine within a year. Besides, in caves there is special microflora promoting the best ripening of cheeses therefore Luigi re-equiped it to rooms for aging of cheeses. Microclimatic conditions in underground caves turned out so ideal that cheeses from Guffanti quickly enough became popular not only in Italy, but also other countries of Europe.
Luigi's sons – Carlo and Mario also successfully continued case of the father, and at the beginning of the 1900th years products of the company began to be exported to the USA and Argentina. Now family business is successfully continued by the great-grandson of the founder of the company – Carlo Fiori who together with the sons successfully develops traditions of affinatore (affinator) – those who are engaged in aging of cheeses, buying young cheeses from carefully selected farms.