Description

Cheese of 5 months of maturation, elaborated with the fusion in equal parts of raw sheep’s milk and cow’s milk at 50%. The combination of these two types of milk and its curing give it flavor in the mouth, character and an aftertaste of nuts and dried fruits provided by the sheep’s milk, and a slight spiciness due to the aging of the cow’s milk. It is a blended cheese, but it is not a normal blended cheese, it is the special selection of the house. Antiguo de Castilla is made with 50% sheep’s milk and 50% cow’s milk; a differentiating element from the majority of mixed cheeses on the market, which are made with 90% cow’s milk and the rest sheep’s 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 the milk obtained from herds of sheep, cows and goats, depending on the livestock owned by each family. It was a traditional economy of milk utilization, being the manufacture of pure milk cheeses quite uncommon.