Spanish cheeses

Spanish cheeses
Queso Manchego
Quesu de Cabrales
Queixo de Tetilla
Queso Ibores
Cheese sometimes accompanies other elements in the form of tapas

A wide variety of cheeses are made throughout the country of Spain from the milk of cows, goats and sheep, and some of them are internationally renowned, such as the Manchego cheese of La Mancha. Some regions are better known for their cheeses than others; 23 cheeses have a denomination of origin in Spain and there are countless others which do not. 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, pasteurized 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 mold 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.

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Andalusia

    • Queso de las Alpujarras [1](P.D.O.)
    • Queso de los Pedroches[2] from raw sheep milk, mostly merino of Sierra de Cazorla, goat milk, cow milk and mixtures of all three
    • Queso de Cabra Payoya[3] of Grazalema, in the Sierra de Cádiz
    • Quesitos de Zuheros, Córdoba

Aragon

    • 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

Asturias

Balearic Islands

Canary Islands

Cantabria

    • Picón Bejes-Tresviso (P.D.O.)[7] is very similar to Galician Cabrales, but also has unique features
    • Quesucos de Liébana (P.D.O.) [7]
    • Queso Nata de Cantabria (P.D.O.)[7]
    • Queso de Áliva, with an aroma similar to smoked beef
    • Queso de Brez
    • Queso Torta de Potes

Castile-La Mancha

Castile and León

Catalonia

A noted cheesemaking region.

    • Queso de l'Alt Urgell y la Cerdanya (P.D.O.) [9]
    • Mató
    • Formatge Pallars Sobirà
    • Formatge de La Garrotxa
    • Tou dels Tillers, of the district of Pallars Sobirà
    • Formatge Serrat
    • Formatge Llenguat
    • Torró de formatge
    • Tupí (Aran Valley)

Valencian Community

    • Formatge blanquet
    • Formatge de la Nucía
    • Formatge de cassoleta
    • Formatge Tronchón
    • Formatge de servilleta

Extremadura

Galicia

    • Queso de Tetilla (P.D.O.)[11] made from the milk of the Rubia gallega cow
    • Queso Arzúa-Ulloa (P.D.O.) [11]
    • Queso Cebreiro (P.D.O.) [11]
    • Queso San Simón da Costa

Navarra

Basque Country

Murcia

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