SERRAT DEL TRIADÓ

SERRAT DEL TRIADÓ

Production Area

Sort (High Pyrenees - Lleida)

Description:

  • Composition: raw cow’s milk
  • Coagulation: enzymatic
  • Texture: pressed paste
  • Ageing: minimum 3 months

Presentation:

  • Shape: cylindrical
  • Weight: 2 - 2.5 kg. (approx 4.4 - 5.5 lb.)

Origins:

Tros de Sort is a young artisan cheesemaker set up in 1995 by 5 dairy farmers and two technicians. They only make raw whole milk cheeses from their own cows that graze on mountain pasture. Serrat cheese is one of the traditional Catalan mountain cheeses.

Sensory characteristics

A cheese with a dense, pressed paste, and a buttery, developed flavour that is faintly acid.

Gastronomic Suggestions

It can be cut in fine slices to accompany red meats, carpaccios… It also goes well with green salads and dried fruits.

Young red wines are the best, especially Merlot or Suyraz.

Chemical composition

  • E.S.: 60% minimum
  • FDM: 48% minimum