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Los Cameros Goats Cheese (Rioja)
The recipe for this outstanding Goats cheese goes back centuries. The development of surface mould during affinage, and the olive oil rub give this cheese a perfect aroma and is responsible for its colour when maturing.
Los Cameros Goats Cheese
Awarded– Bronze Medal at World Cheese Awards 2011. Gold Medal at World Cheese Awards 2010. Silver Medal at World Cheese Awards 2007
Made with – Pasteurised Goats Milk
Ageing – Semi-cured, around 45 days
P.D.O. Queso Camerano
Flavour – A highly intense and full flavoured cheese. Also nutty, with a distinct and pronounced aroma derived from natural curing. It is ivory in colour with a firm texture, and small well-distributed eyes.
Serving suggestions: Nuts, fire-roasted red peppers riojanos, Alegrias riojanas, figs, any fruit jams, caramelised onion, red or white wines, particularly Rioja.
Serving suggestions: Nuts, fire-roasted red peppers riojanos, Alegrias riojanas, figs, any fruit jams, caramelised onion, red or white wines, particularly Rioja.
Montanera (Bellota)
Awarded – gold award in Spain (Trujillo) 2009 as best creamy texture. Gold Award in 2009 & 2011 in Acehuche as best goats cheese.
Made with – Raw Goat’s milk
Ageing – +4 months
Flavour – Intense and persistent aroma. Fragrances caprinos, of vegetable and fruity with suggestion of olive oil, strong to start with and develop a pleasant spicy point.
Serving suggestions: With honey, wild fruit jams, figs, Cava and Pedro Ximenez.
“Montanera” is produced with the raw milk from the months of the Montanera, which are from October to February, in which the goats only fed of Bellota (acorns) where the milk is more nutritious, and the cheeses are very creamy.
The cheese Montanera is a new one an at the moment only available by contacting us directly. PLEASE CLICK ON THE FLAVOURS OF SPAIN LOGO TO VISIT OUR WEBSITE IN THE UK.
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