Washed rind Sheep’s milk

Queijo Serra da Estrela

Portugal’s oldest cheese, also set with thistle, also eaten with a spoon.

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

Made in Portugal's highest mountain range from raw Bordaleira sheep's milk, coagulated with cardoon thistle. Records of it go back to the twelfth century and the technique has changed remarkably little.

The paste is buttery and slightly bitter with a distinct lanolin richness. Aged past four months it firms into *Serra Velho*, a completely different, harder, sharper cheese.

Tastes of

lanolin thistle butter a gentle sour finish

Put it next to

Dão red Broa cornbread Port Quince