A wide variety of cheeses are made throughout the country of Spain.
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Some of the Spanish cheeses are internationally renowned, such as the Manchego cheese of La Mancha. Some regions are better known for their cheeses than others; 26 cheeses are classified as Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P.—Denominación de Origen Protegida) and 3 additional cheeses are classified as Protected Geographical Indication (I.G.P. - Indicación Geográfica Protegida)[1] by Spain and the European Union. Many of the cheeses are manufactured from single types of milk (cow, goat or sheep), but a few are mixtures of different milks, and the milk may be raw, pasteurised or creamy. The cheeses are made in a wide variety of styles including fresh, cured, semi-cured and pressed paste, and some are inoculated with mould to make blue varieties. There is a huge variation in the presentation of cheeses, from the hard, dark-skinned, two-kilo Manchego to the soft, small quesitos.
A list of Spanish cheeses follows, grouped by an alphabetical ordering of geographic regions.[2]
- Queso de las Alpujarras (P.D.O.)[3]
- Queso de los Pedroches[4] from raw sheep milk, mostly merino of Sierra de Cazorla, goat milk, cow milk and mixtures of all three
- Queso payoyo[5] of Grazalema, in the Sierra de Cádiz
- Quesitos de Zuheros, Córdoba
- Queso de Fuente Palmera[6] Mainly goat milk with Quinkana brand and mixture milk (cow and goat) with brand "La Abuela Valle", near Cordoba, Sierra Morena and Guadalquivir Valley
- Queso de Tronchón, which was cited by Cervantes in Don Quixote, and made with sheep milk or mixed with goat milk
- Queso Echo y Ansó
- Queso de Biescas
- Queso Patamulo
- Queso de Radiquero
- Queso de Benabarre
- Queso Pañoleta
- Queso de Sahún
- Queso de El Burgo
- Queso Chistabín
- Queso Cabrales (P.D.O.)[7]
- Queso de Afuega el pitu (P.D.O)[7]
- Queso de Los Beyos
- Queso Casín[7] (P.D.O.)
- Queso de Gamonedo (D.O.)[7]
- Queso de Peñamellera
- Queso de Urbiés
- Queso de La Peral
- Formatge de Maó, Menorca.(P.D.O.)[8]
- Formatge Mallorquí (P.D.O.)[8]
- Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)[9] shared with Navarre and obtained from Lachen sheep
- Queso majorero (P.D.O.)[10]
- Queso de flor (P.D.O.)[10]
- Queso palmero (P.D.O.)[10]
- Queso de la Gomera
- Queso de Lanzarote
- Queso herreño
- Picón Bejes-Tresviso (P.D.O.)[11] is very similar to Asturian Cabrales, but also has unique features
- Quesucos de Liébana (P.D.O.)[11]
- Queso Nata de Cantabria (P.D.O.)[11]
- Queso de Áliva, with an aroma similar to smoked beef
- Queso de Brez
- Queso Torta de Potes
- Queso Manchego (P.D.O.)
- Queso de Oropesa
- Formatge de l'Alt Urgell i la Cerdanya (P.D.O.)[13]
- Formatge de la Garrotxa
- Serrat (Pyrenees)
- Llenguat (Pallars)
- Mató
- Tou dels Til·lers (Pallars Sobirà)
- Tupí (Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees)
- Queso de La Serena, or Torta de La Serena (P.D.O.)[14]
- Queso Ibores (P.D.O.)[14]
- Torta del Casar (P.D.O.)[14]
- Quesaílla
- Queso de Acehúche
- Queso de la Siberia extremeña
- Queso de Gata-Hurdes
- Queso de la Vera
- Queso de Tetilla (P.D.O.)[15] made from the milk of the Rubia gallega cow
- Queso Arzúa-Ulloa (P.D.O.)[15]
- Queso Cebreiro (P.D.O.)[15]
- Queso San Simón da Costa
- Queso de Murcia al vino (P.D.O.)[16] a cheese made from the pasteurized milk of Murcian goats
- Queso de Murcia (P.D.O.)[16] another cheese made from Murcian goat milk but with characteristics which differ from Queso al Vino
- Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)[17]
- Queso Roncal (P.D.O.)[17]
- Queso Urbasa, Menhaden sheep milk
- Queso Ribaforada, goat milk
- Queso Cabanillas, goat milk
- Queso Lesaca, cow milk or a mixture with goat milk
See also
editReferences
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- ^ Página de QUESOS LOS PEDROCHES - Feria del Queso y el Vino Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ "Quesos Quinkana – Elaboración de quesos artesanales de cabra y mezcla. Una de las queserías más premiada de Andalucía". www.quinkana.es.
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- ^ "Cataluña - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
- ^ a b c "Extremadura - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
- ^ a b c "Galicia - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.
- ^ a b "Murcia - Queseros y Quesos de España". www.queseros.com.