Vicente Pastor artisan cheese factory with its sheep cheese Vicente Pastor in EVOO. This is how they describe themselves:
Our elders confess that they do not know when their ancestors began grazing their sheep in these lands, although they always remember that cheese was made at home for the consumption of family and friends.
We, heirs of this tradition, these flocks and these lands, are committed to the production and marketing of this cheese of which we are very proud because all the components involved in its production are handmade and natural.
There are many, as they themselves teach us, the steps to make cheese. Milking and refrigeration of the milk, curdling, cutting, beating and reheating of the curd, pressing, filling of the molds, capping and pressing. Ripening
Technical data sheet of the cheese cured in EVOO
CURING: 6 months and 2 months of maceration in oil.
EXTERNAL APPEARANCE BEFORE PACKAGING: Natural rind moldy "unpainted", with grated pattern on faces and striated on lateral edges.
CUTTING: Small and irregular eyes distributed throughout the dough, color of the dough ivory yellow or deep yellow, depending on their healing.
SMELL: Intense, oily and clean, reminiscent of clean, fresh sheep's milk.
TEXTURE: Buttery, oily and fleshy.
FLAVOR: Characteristic of the product, slightly acidic and oily due to its maceration, balanced with an aftertaste of cellar due to its curing.
PRESENTATION: Cheese cut into wedges packaged in jars with olive oil in different sizes 0'250, 0'500 and 1'000 Kg. net and drained.
Name: Sheep cheese cured in extra virgin olive oil. Sheep cheese in EVOO
Description: 100% sheep cheese, made with pressed paste from raw milk and macerated in extra virgin olive oil for at least two months.
Commercial Category: Fatty
Commercial brand: Vicente Pastor
Ingredients: 100% sheep's milk, rennet, salt and extra virgin olive oil
Consumption Guidelines: Consume at room temperature (17ºC-20ºC)
Storage: Room temperature
Preferred Consumption: Within 14 months from the date of manufacture
Batch Identification: Corresponds to the date of packaging
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