Afuega'l Pitu Blanco cheese

CATA's notes:Medium flavor Fatty material Min. 45% Cheese made with cow's milk, with a conical shape and white color. The consistency of the paste varies with the degree of maturation, a firmness and medium adhesion being characteristic, as well as the impossibility of making a clean cut since it crumbles with great ease. Slightly acid taste, little by little salty. Smooth, lactic aroma and with a slight memory of yeasts, increasing with maturation.

Asturias has in its territory one of the largest cheese spots in Europe. In its production, cow, sheep or goat milks are involved, alone or mixed together. The resulting types of cheese are very varied, from soft and creamy to strong and spicy, smoked, fresh, hard, soft or veined pasta, etc. The cheese activity, in its origins, became practically essential because of the need, then, to achieve a safe method of preservation for a surplus of milk, which otherwise was difficult to use in a region of such complex orography and population scattered This cheese tradition has been maintained.

Producer: Cheese factory Ca Sanchu - La Pumariega nº15, Ambás, 33826 - Grau (Asturias - Spain)

Store between 4º and 6º C