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PICO MELERO
Region

Käse - PICO MELERO

OVEJA CURADO

Production Area

Sardón de Duero – Valladolid

Description:

  • Composition: raw sheep’s milk (castellanas and churras sheep)
  • Coagulation: enzymatic
  • Texture: pressed paste
  • Ageing: 10 months

Presentation:

  • Shape: cylindrical
  • Weight: 2,500 Kg

Origins:

La Granja de Sardón is an historical farming business, which develops its agricultural and livestock activity on a regional level since the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its last bet is marketing an excellent raw ewe’s milk cheese, made from their own livestock, that enjoys the highest international recognition having won a silver and a bronze medal at the World Cheese Awards 2008.

Sensory characteristics

Smooth, fine, coffee-colored rind. On the inside, with a compact cut and without a uniform rind. Ivory-colored paste. Close structure, with scarce, small and unevenly distributed eyes. Small calcifications towards the exterior.

Texture: low elasticity. Medium adherence, firmness, deformability and friability. Grainy in the palate, with medium moisture. Greasy and creamy.

Slightly acidic odour, from lactic to evolved milk. Notes of roasted nuts. Developed flavour, with light acidic notes. Its spicyness appears slowly, without being excessive. High persistance in the mouth. Aftertaste of dark-roast and roasted nuts.

Chemical composition

  • FDM: 50%


   

   
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