cheese that is unique

Within the imperial city you can also sample one of the best known cheeses in the world: Manchego cheese: Cheese called Manchego cheese is that which is prepared in the natural district of La Mancha, from the milk of Manchego sheep with a maturity period of at least sixty days. It is made from pasteurised sheep’s milk and Artisan Manchego cheese from un-pasteurised sheep’s milk, from dairies registered in the Guarantee of Origin.

Manchego cheese is the product of a hard, extreme climate, which suits the growth of country vegetation, food from a strange, ancestral race of sheep submitted to a very strict morphological and health check. These characteristics give the result of a cheese that is unique.