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Packsize | 2/9 LB |
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Made by 3 time World Cheese champion Michael Spycher from raw, grassfed milk. The dense, smooth, slightly crystalline paste tastes of chestnuts, stone fruit and broth and has a slightly sweet vanilla end note. Italco is offering this cheese in 2/9 lb wedges
Italco remains commited to bringing you excellent convenience options. Fresh grated from whole imported wheels here at Italco Food Products. The perfect solution for time saving and convenience – Authentic Grana Padono blended in house and delivered to you free of any starches or additives – Just great real cheese.
This unparalleled raw milk Manchego is exclusively produced using sheep`s milk collected from local herds. Once the milk is collected, Artequeso Manchego cheese is produced following only the strictest of artisan traditions, during which cheesemaker Alfonso Alvarez and his staff keep absolute control over each step of the cheese making process: this includes curd cutting, whey drainage, salting, and finally drying. Once the make process is complete, each wheel is carefully tended to during the affinage process, with particular attention devoted to controlled temperature and humidity levels.
Manchego is aged for 3 months or longer, and is a semi-firm cheese with a rich golden color. It comes in a 10-inch diameter wheel, 5 inches thick with a herringbone design on the rind. It ranges from mild to sharp, depending on how long it is aged.
The cheese is made in Posada de Valdeon, in the Castile-Leon region of the northwestern Spain and is wrapped in sycamore maple or chestnut leaves before being sent to market. The cheese has a very intense blue flavor, but is not as yellowed or as biting as its cousin Cabrales. Aged 6 Months
We start by using the best milk that we can find in our area. This means we start making cheese with the freshest milk possible. No artificial colorings, preservatives, or additives are used in the cheese making process of our Camembert, which is all done by hand. This cheese is quite creamy from the start with hint of milky creaminess. As the cheese ripens it develops creamy undertones and buttery characteristics topped off with a nutty mouth feel. MouCo Camembert is fully aged at 7-8 weeks. At this point the cheese flavor is fully complex with butter, creamy and nuts in it`s flavor display. The cheese just begins to flow when left to warm to room temperature.