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.

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

• • Queso Cabrales (P.D.O.)^[4]
  • Quesu d'Afuega'l pitu (P.D.O)^[4]
  • Quesu de Los Beyos
  • Quesu Casín^[4] (P.D.O.)
  • Queso de Gamonedo (D.O.)^[4]
  • Quesu de Peñamellera
  • Quesu d'Urbiés
  • Quesu de La Peral

Balearic Islands

• • Queso Mahón, Menorca.(P.D.O.)^[5]
  • Queso de Mallorca (P.D.O.)^[5]

Canary Islands

• • Queso majorero (P.D.O.)^[6]
  • Queso de flor (P.D.O.)^[6]
  • Queso palmero (P.D.O.)^[6]
  • Queso de la Gomera
  • Almogrote
  • Queso de Lanzarote
  • Queso herreño

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

• • Queso Manchego (P.D.O.)
  • Queso de Oropesa

Castile and León

• • Queso zamorano (P.D.O.)^[8]
  • Queso de Valdeón (P.D.O.)^[8]
  • Queso castellano
  • Queso de Burgos
  • Queso del Tiétar

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

• • Queso Torta del Casar (P.D.O.)^[10]
  • Queso de La Serena (P.D.O.)^[10]
  • Queso Ibores (P.D.O.) ^[10]
  • Torta de La Serena

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

• • Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)^[12]
  • Queso Erronkariko (P.D.O.)^[12]
  • Queso Urbasa, Menhaden sheep milk
  • Queso Ribaforada, goat milk
  • Queso Cabanillas, goat milk
  • Queso Lesaca, cow milk or a mixture with goat milk

Basque Country

• • Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)^[13] shared with Cantabria and obtained from Lachen sheep

Murcia

• • Queso de Murcia al vino (P.D.O.)^[14] a cheese made from the pasteurized milk of Murcian goats
  • Queso de Murcia (P.D.O.)^[14] another cheese made from Murcian goat milk but with characteristics which differ from Queso al Vino

References

1. ^ http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/andalucia/
2. ^ http://feriadelqueso.ning.com/profile/QUESOSLOSPEDROCHES
3. ^ http://grupogastronomicogaditano.com/Articulos/QuesoPayoyo.htm
4. ^ ^{a b c d} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/asturias/
5. ^ ^{a b} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/islas-baleares/
6. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/islas-canarias/
7. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/cantabria/
8. ^ ^{a b} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/castilla-y-leon/
9. ^ http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/cataluna/
10. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/extremadura/
11. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/galicia/
12. ^ ^{a b} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/navarra/
13. ^ http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/pais-vasco/
14. ^ ^{a b} http://www.queseros.com/category/quesos-de-espana/murcia/

External links

• Cheeses of Spain with Designation of Origin - www.queseros.com
• Archives in the Ministry of Fisheries and Food on designations of origin