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October 16, 2005

Castelo Branco

Today's cheese was a Castelo Branco, which is another raw ewe's milk cheese, this time from the Beiras region in Portugal. It's a semi-soft cheese, light yellow in color, pocked with small holes throughout. Some reports I read indicated that it's sometimes made with a mix of ewe and goat milk, although my cheese monger indicated this sample was ewe's milk. The flavor is mild, but with a tweak of an acidic sourness, not quite citrus-like, and reminiscent of a goat's milk cheese (with a much higher fat content). Definitely worth a try although not my favorite of the ewe's milk cheeses I've tried so far.

Posted by Dave!

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1 Comments

You know, Dave, I don't usually miss cheese after having given it up. But the way you write about it makes me crave it.

I want me some cheese!

October 19, 2005