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Spanish
Cheese, as you would expect from a country with a wide range of culinary
styles, also comes in a wide variety. Manchego is probably the most well
known outside of Spain.Sheep and goat cheeses are both common, the latter
in Andalucia, Extremadura and the Canaries (queso de cabra) Mixed milk
cheeses are also very common.In Spain quince (membrillo) paste, codoñate,
is often eaten with cheese.
Iberico
A DE cheese made all over Spain. White, mild and buttery. Mixed milks,
at least 50% cows.
Andalucia
Grazalema
Similar to Manchego but a little more piquant
Cadiz
Firm white cheese, mellow.Goats milk
Sierra
de Carzola pasteurized goats' milk from the hills. White and firm with
patterned rind.(right)
Creamy
texture with a subtle piquancy.
Malaga
Typical goats' cheese of the region.
Morón
fresh mixed milk cheese.
Pedroches
Golden ewes' cheese from near Cordoba.Stored in olive oil.
Asturias
and Cantabria
Afuega'l
Pitu (or afuega el pitu) alpine cows' milk, spreadable but dry.(DO
due).
 Cabrales
(right)Blue,
various milks, matured, wrapped in chestnut leaves and matured in caves
in the Picos de Europa.(DO)
Veyos
Strong white cheese, mixed or variable milks.
Quesucos
de Liébana Goat, cow and sheep mixed milk cheese from Camaleño
valley in Cantabria.(DO).
Ahumado
de Aliva Smoked over juniper wood. Cantabrian.
Picón
Bejes-Treviso
Three milk cheese similar to Cabrales from Cantabria.(DO)
Gamonedo
Slightly smoked blue from Onis and Cangas de Onis. Less viened than Cabrales.
Pido
Cows' milk soft cheese from Liebana, Cantabria.
Cantabria
DO of Cantabrian semi-soft cows milk cheeses.
Basque.
Idiazabal
Firm, waxy, may be smoked, ewes' milk (Latxa sheep). (DO)
Pasiego
prensado Santander cheese, mild with yellow rind.
Quesucos
Unpressed mixed milk cheese.Also Cantabria.
Canary
Isles
 Majorero
goats' milk cheese from Fuerteventura.(DO)
Palmero
Goats'
cheese from La Palma (DO)
(right.Gran
Canarian smoked goats cheese, "Queso Flor Valsequillo")
Castile-La
Rioja-Leon
Manchego
La Mancha ewes' milk cheese, sold from fresco, soft through semicurado
to curado, hard. Herringbone pattern on rind from the mould, depicting
the original esparto wrapping. (DO)
Pata
de Mulo ewes' milk Villalón
Camarano
Cottage cheese. La Rioja
Burgos
white, fresh, smooth, mild. ewes milk.
Leon
Mellow cows' cheese.
Oropresa
Similar to Manchego.
Soria
White fresh goats' cheese.
Suspiro(right)From
Toledo, pasturised goat
Valdeteja
Goaty goats' cheese.
Villalón
Fresh white sheeps' cheese
Romero
sheeps' cheese covered with rosemary
Azul
Valderon Blue cheese from Leon wrapped in maple leaves. Also known
as "Picos Blue".(DO)
ZamoranoSheeps'
cheese from Zamora.Straw coloured. Rind like Manchego (DO).
 Monte
Enebro (Valle de Tietar) (right) semi cured white goats' cheese
in a penicillium mould.
Catalonia
Cendrat
coated with ash
Mahón
Freisan cows' milk. Eaten young or old, sometimes preseved with oil and
paprika.Menorca in the Balearics (DO).
Montsec
Hard goats' cheese
Recruit
ewes'
milk fresh
Tupi
soft sheep cheese from Pyrenees.
Serrat
ewes'
milk, Pyrenees
Val
d'Aran cows' milk
Garrotxa(right)
Greyish rinded mild goats cheese
Can
Pujol Soft goats' cheese. Hand moulded.
Alt
Urgell y la Cerdanya Semi soft cows' cheese.
Extremadura
Ibores
Hard
goats' cheese, white in colour, may have rind rubbed with paprika (DO)
Torta
del Casar ewes'
milk, soft centred.
Plassencia
Semi hard goat's cheese.
Serena
Yellow sheeps' cheese with holes.(DO)
Torta
de Barros (right) raw ewes' milk (and goats' milk version), excellent
soft centred cheese.
Torta
la Serena Ripened Serena with centre of ripe liquefaction.
Galicia
Tetilla
(right),
young, mild and buttery with pleasant hint of sharpness, in shape of woman's
breast. Cows milk. (DO)
San
Simón (right) cows' milk cone shaped semi matured, slightly
smoked, looks like a darker Tetilla.
Cebrero
Pressed firm cows' cheese from Lugo.
La
Peral Soft ripened brie like cheese.
Arzua
Ulloa (right, below), Gallego, Patela Mild soft creamy
cows cheese.
Palo
Santo Rather like tetilla in a block.
Murcia
Murcia
al Vino A new goats cheese wine with a wine rubbed rind.(DO)
Navarre
Roncal
hard
sheeps' cheese (DO)
Tudela
Manchego look alike
Valencia
Tronchón
hard, also know as Aragón.
Alicante
Cows' milk, fresh clean taste.
Cervera
Ewes' cheese like Burgos.
Puzol
Fresh sheeps' cheese eaten young.
In
my opinion a big cheese not to miss
DO
Denominación de Origin, regulated, from a specific geographical
area.
DE
Denominación Especifa, regulated, but not necessarily from a single
geographical location.
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