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Iberico Cheese (2 crowns)
Description
Iberico Semicured Cheese is a truly authentic European cheese. Made from a unique mixture of cow, goat and sheep milk, it’s been aged for 3 months to create a semi-hard cheese that tastes great with omelets, salads, pastas, potatoes and rice.
Pairing
Great accompanied by a dry or semi-dry fruity white wine or a smooth red wine.
Sensorial
Firm and compact cheese with small eyes. Slightly yellow colour and slightly acidic lactic aroma. Taste medium to strong according to if semi matured or matured.
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Idiazabal Cheese
Description
Idiazabal smoked artisan raw milk cheese is a classic from the Basque Country. It is a cheese that brings us the pastures and landscapes of the mountains and valleys of the Basque Country. Slightly smoke and with floral notes. Intense aromas and taste. Is a sheep’s milk and hand made cheese that has a hard inedible outer rind.
Pairing
Goes very well with dry white wines or young red ones.
Sensorial
The flavor of Idiazabal cheese is intense with a marked “aged sheep's milk” character and some natural rennet flavor . It has a spicy tone and there must be an absence of bitterness. Its salinity is medium. After a tasting, it leaves a lingering aftertaste of its characteristic flavor.
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Aged mahon PDO “Mercadal”
Description
Square cheese from Menorca made from pasteurised cow’s milk and aged to form a buttery firm texture. Miniature sold with its lid pre-cut and including special knife to make a great aperitif. A versatile, delicious PDO cheese which can be consumed in flakes or sliced.
Ideal above as an aperitif (with crisp white wine or cava) or with salads, carpaccio, pasta, risottos or for cooking in a sauce. Makes a more buttery and economical alternative to parmesan. Also fabulous sliced on a cheese table. Figs and grapes accompany particularly well.
Pairing
This cheese goes fabulous with crisp white or rosé wines.
Sensorial
Firm, hard and flaky texture. Intense aroma reminiscent of butter, leather and wood.
Garrotxa Cheese
Description
Artesanal Cheese from Catalonia made from pasteurised goats cheese. Accompany with bread and olive oil, fruit or jams. Perfect with salads.
Pairing
A cheese which combines especially well with a crisp, cask-aged white wine or a young red wine.
Sensorial
Firm but elastic textured cheese without holes which becomes soft and velvety in the mouth. Creamy taste with notes of the forest in the Autumn.
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Cabrales PDO Blue Cheese
Description
The most famous and strongest Spanish Blue Cheese, made from raw sheep’s and cows milk, plus penicillium roqueforti mould and matured in caves in the Picos de Europa, Asturias.
Ideal in salads, with honey and/or nuts, simply enjoyed with bread or even for cooking.
Pairing
This type of cheese is ideal drunk with strong wines. A sparkling wine is perfect with this too as it refreshes the mouth and eliminates any excess fatty taste.
Sensorial
Complex – soft and creamy, yet crumbly. Intense taste which suggest fermented fruit, mould and yeast, with a tangy, spicy aftertaste.
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