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- This cheese took at least 8 months to mature
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The world's most expensive Cheese is sold in Spain. The most shocking thing is that one piece of this special cheese is sold for 27 lakhs. Cabrales blue cheese from northern Spain has won the title of world's most expensive cheese after 2.2kg sold for €30,000 at auction. It was a 2.2kg single wheel cheese. He also won Cabrales of the Year at the state's 51st annual competition. Guillermo Pendas, who makes it for his family's Los Puertos factory, said, "We have a good cheese but it was very difficult to make."
The cheese was made at a temperature of 7C' in a cave at an altitude of 1,400 m
Pandas mother Roja Vada who owns the Los Puertos factory. The cheese, he said, was made at a temperature of 7C' in a cave at an altitude of 1,400 m. Where it took at least 8 months to make. The cheese was sold to restaurant owner Ivan Suarez. who owns El Lager de Colotto in Asturias. Suarez said that passion for the land and recognizing the work of the cheesemaker inspired him to buy the cheese.
The cheese is made using raw cow's milk or a mixture of sheep's and goat's milk and is matured in the caves of the Cabrales region in the Picos de Europa National Park. The mature cheese is brought from the caves down the mountain on foot. The previous Guinness World Record price was set at €20,500 in 2019 for a cheese bought by Suarez.
