Description

Palo Santo cheese; Practically unknown in the rest of Spain, the Palo Santo it’s a cheese made with cow’s milk; soft-tasting, very buttery and melting very well. Its name is due to the instrument used by a monk from a monastery near Cuntis (Pontevedra), back in 1,720, to remove the curd from which he obtained a fatty cheese of exquisite flavor, after rest of 3 months in the cellars of the convent.

Thanks to the researchers who searched the old documents of the Monastery those who got the formula. Today its production is as traditional as in the eighteenth century.

Features: Soft and circular paste.

Tasting..

Palo Santo Cheese is a cow’s milk cheese, very soft and creamy, which can be tasted alone, accompanied by honey or quince or even for cooking because it is a cheese that melts with great ease.

Producer: Gallega Dairy Plant.

Product: Plano Terra cheese by Melide Arzúa Ulloa.

Xeographic indication Cheeses of Galicia: NO

Ingredients: Pasteurized cow’s milk, rennet, lactic ferments, egg-derived lysozyme, acidity corrector: calcium chloride and salt.

Presentation: Flat and round cheese with information band.

Net Weight: approximately 750 grams.

Pairing: Perfect with Albariño and Ribeiro Blanco wine.

Delivery time, between 24 and 48 hours throughout the Iberian Peninsula.

Balearic Islands, between 48 and 72 hours.

European countries, between 2 and 6 days depending on distance.

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