Picos de Europa

Queso de Valdeon blue cheese, wheel

2,3 kg

68,45 

€ 29,76 / kg VAT included

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Milk

Milk type

Cow + Goat

Weight

2.3 kg

2.3 kg

Milk Treatment

Pasteurised

Texture

Blue Cheese

Aging

Semi-cured
(semicurado)

Flavour

Bold

Valdeón

Appellation of Origin (DOP / IGP):

Valdeón

awards

AWARDS:

  • 2017: Silver in blue cheeses
  • 2015- 2016: Silver in blue cheeses
  • 2014: Gold in blue cheeses
  • 2013: Silver in blue cheeses
  • 2009: Gold
  • extra information

    ADDITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Paste: Blue
  • Rind: Rindless
  • Maturity: Minimum of 6 weeks
  • Drinks pairing

    Drinks Pairing Suggestions:

  • Fortified wine: Sherry Manzanilla
  • Fortified wine: Sherry Fino
  • Sweet wine: Montilla-Moriles PX / Pedro Ximenez
  • Cava
  • Full-bodied red: Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Full-bodied red: Shiraz (Syrah)
  • Castille-Leon

    Queso Valdeón cheese is a spectacular blue cheese made in the Valdeón Valley, located in the heart of the Picos de Europa on the Leonese side, Castille and Leon. It is a blue-veined cheese, made all year round with cow's and goat's milk. It is matured for a long time, until it reaches a point between semi-cured and cured.

    The rind is rough and irregular, with dark grey tones and small red and bluish spots. The paste has a soft texture and a pale yellow colour, full of small cavities where white and blue-green mould is concentrated.

    Its taste is intense, salty and spicy, more pronounced when the ripening time is longer. Good persistence of flavours.

    The leaves are the traditional wrapping that does not affect the ripening of the cheese. The leaves that cover this cheese were used in the past to protect the cheeses and prevent them from staining the cheese bag. They were used for transport when the cheese was brought down from the caves.

    Queso Valdeón cheese is a spectacular blue cheese made in the Valdeón Valley, located in the heart of the Picos de Europa on the Leonese side, Castille and Leon. It is a blue-veined cheese, made all year round with cow's and goat's milk. It is matured for a long time, until it reaches a point between semi-cured and cured.

    The rind is rough and irregular, with dark grey tones and small red and bluish spots. The paste has a soft texture and a pale yellow colour, full of small cavities where white and blue-green mould is concentrated.

    Its taste is intense, salty and spicy, more pronounced when the ripening time is longer. Good persistence of flavours.

    The leaves are the traditional wrapping that does not affect the ripening of the cheese. The leaves that cover this cheese were used in the past to protect the cheeses and prevent them from staining the cheese bag. They were used for transport when the cheese was brought down from the caves.

    Pasteurised cow's milk (min. 80%) and goat's milk (min. 10%), salt, milk cultures, stabiliser (calcium chloride) and rennet.

    Average nutritional values per 100 ml/g. The % have been calculated based on the reference intake of an average adult (8400 Kj / 2000 Kcal):

    Energy value (Kj)
    1600 Kj
    Energy value (Kcal)
    386 Kcal
    Fats
    31,2 g
    Saturated fats
    21,95 g
    Carbohydrates
    3 g
    Sugars
    0,5 g
    Proteins
    23,3 g
    Salt
    2,29 g
    test text Blue cheeses
    SKU: SK03000000109

    Producer: Quesería Picos de Europa, S.L.

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