Description

Cheese of 5 months of maturation, elaborated with the fusion in equal parts of the milk
50% raw sheep and 50% raw cow. The combination of these two types of milk and the curing process will
flavor, character and an aftertaste of nuts and dried fruits provided by the
sheep’s milk, and a slight spiciness due to the ageing of the cow’s milk.

It is a blended cheese, but it is not a normal blended cheese, it is the special selection from the
house. Antiguo de Castilla is made with 50% sheep’s milk and 50% cow’s milk.
cow; an element that differentiates it from the majority of mixed cheeses on the market, which is
made with 90% cow’s milk and the rest sheep and/or goat’s milk.

And its name has a history, why El Antiguo de Castilla? In the past, in the two
Castillas, cheeses were made by mixing milk obtained from the herds of the Castilian
sheep, cows and goats, depending on the livestock owned by each family. It was a
traditional economy of milk utilization, with the manufacture of cheese as the main activity.
pure milk is quite rare.