Hard & aged Sheep’s milk

Ossau-Iraty

Basque shepherd’s cheese: sheep’s milk, sweet, and endlessly easy to eat.

Drawn by the app from this cheese’s own record — paste, rind and texture come from the data, not a stock library.

Made from Manech and Basco-Béarnaise sheep in the western Pyrenees, where the shepherds' transhumance routes are older than the border. One of only three French sheep's-milk AOPs.

Sweet, oily-textured and gentle, with hazelnut and lanolin notes rather than the sharpness people expect from sheep's milk. Eaten locally with black cherry jam from Itxassou, which is not a garnish so much as part of the cheese.

Tastes of

hazelnut lanolin sweet cream dried fruit

Put it next to

Black cherry jam Irouléguy red Marcona almonds Cider