It is a fatty cheese made with 100% raw Merina sheep’s milk, coagulated with Vegetal rennet by maceration of flower pistils from wild thistle (Cynara Cardunculus). Dry salted with iodized common salt powdered on surface.
The texture is semi-hard, with elasticity and slight buttery, cuttable, with a firm rind. The outside has a light golden color, highlighting an oily sweat. The flavour is intense and persistent, very complex, but always highlighting a typical bitterness because of using vegetal coagulants, and slightly spicy due to its long curing.
Format
Product format characteristics:
- Place of Origin:
- Badajoz
- Milk:
- Raw Merina Sheep
- Shape:
- Cylindrical
- Flavour:
- Strong
- Weight:
- 750 grams – 1,1 Kg
- Fat (min):
- 50 %
