Cheese from the Spanish Pyrenees (Roncal)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Roncal
Date:	11/02/08 (112 review reads)
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Roncal cheese.

I love to roam in the Pyrenees be it The French side or the Spanish. When we go roaming in the summer we usually take a picnic of cheese and bread. One of the cheeses we have taken with us is Roncal this cheese is called after the villages in the valle de Roncal in the Navarre region of Spain.


Roncal cheese is a sheep's milk cheese made from breeds of sheep that graze the high Pyrenees. I wonder as I sit down to eat my lunch if the cheese came from milk from the sheep I see grazing around me.
This cheese is a hard cheese with a light orangey brown rind. This cheese is made in a wheel shape. The texture chewable when in the mouth its moist firm and smooth. This cheese has a slightly nutty flavour hint of olive it has a smell a light smell cheesy. The flavour is not a very strong one as it gets older the taste also matures..

This cheese goes well with crackers or bread and a lovely bottle of wine. Writing this I just have the desire to be on a sunny grassy mountain hillside with a loaf of Spanish bread a portion of Roncal cheese and a bottle of red wine to compliment it.

Oh well I can dream maybe I can pretend I shall buy some bread and wine and some Roncal cheese from a shop I am sure I have seen it in Supermarkets and delicatessen shops in England.
Sorry can not find the price on line, but you can buy it a kg for £14 from http://www.ibericogourmet.com/

Summary: A sheeps cheese