Essex 1605 Manchego (6 month)

Raw sheeps milk farmstead natural rind manchego, aged 3-5 months

Sought and selected by Essex Street Cheese, this is Manchego unlike anything else on the US market – its more like the way the cheese probably tasted when Cervantes wrote Don Quixote (414 years ago). Milk comes from the highly regarded Sierra de Solana farm in La Mancha. Batches are hand selected by Affineur Juan Luis Martin – who built the farms’ aging facilities. Flavors are hauntingly delicate and powerful simultaneously: hay, almonds, cured ham and the cleanest sheep milk profile we’ve ever tasted.