Description
Data sheet:
Ingredients: Raw milk from Manchego sheep
Fat Matter: 37%
Healing: 4 months
Producer: Selection 1605
Origin: Sierra La Solana Estate, Ciudad Real (Spain)
DOP: manchego
All Manchego cheese is identified on one of its flat faces with a numbered and serial casein plate. It is located at the Sierra la Solana Estate, in the heart of La Mancha (Ciudad Real), in the town of Herencia, in a privileged natural environment and with a harsh and extreme climate, which favors the growth of a very rustic vegetation that serves as food for its Manchega sheep. All these factors favor the production of a cheese with unique characteristics.
Nutritional table
- Energy value: 383.0 Kcal/ 1602 kj
- Proteins: 27,56g
- Carbohydrates: 0.50 g. of which sugars: 0,50 g.
- Fats: 30.40 g. Of which saturated: 18.90 g.
- Dietary fiber: 0.00 g.
- Sodium: 550 mg.
- Calcium: 765 mg.
Tasting Notes:
Clean animal smell. Lactic notes reminiscent of smooth yogurt and a fruity character with subtle hints of dried fruit. On the palate it has a semi-hard texture, good butteriness and solubility and a medium-type friability. Pleasant greasy-oily sensation during chewing and mealy-type granularity. The taste, at first, presents a soft acidity interspersed with sweet notes of cereal. Animal aromas very well integrated as a whole and a pleasant aftertaste of raw nuts (almond) with high persistence in the mouth. A fantastic manchego cheese.
Pairing:
We would pair it with young aged red wines, and also on the other hand, it can be paired with extra virgin olive oils, honeys o jams.
Conservation
The ideal temperature for cheese conservation would be 8 – 10 ºC. If we want to stop the evolution of the cheese and the molds in the natural rind, the temperature should be 4ºC. The preferred consumption will be for a minimum of 8 months, although it must be taken into account that, from the 4th month, if the cheese is wrapped in paper, it will begin to stain due to the activity of the molds in the natural rind.
Israel Romero -
a cheese for each day, you never get tired of it. I love it with a young red wine