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"THE BROWN WOMAN" - Raw milk blue cow's cheese refined with rum, cocoa and candied chestnuts
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This cheese also received its first recognition even before it was put on the market, i.e. the first cheese made for trial in 2017 was entered in a national competition called “CRUDI IN ITALIA”, which covers all cheeses made with raw milk. So, this competition took the first prize and the special mention for its complexity of aromas. In 2020-2021 at ITALIAN CHEESE AWARDS, it obtained the award for the Cheese of the Year.
The name “La Castana” comes from the fact that there are chestnuts, or Maron Glacees, but also because thanks to the water in which it is subjected to rum and cocoa, takes a brown color.
It has a compact and soft structure, moist and at the same time crumbly inside, it creates a bit of difficulty to cut since it will always be served with a piece of brown and possibly the outer part or under crust that came more in contact with the rum and cocoa.
A cheese with 4 flavours, well defined and marked. The paste is very savoury, with sensations both lactic and animal and vegetable, the rum gives the acid part, the cocoa the bitter part and the browns that are a very sweet contrast rebalance everything.
A cheese to be enjoyed without a doubt at the end of a meal, if you like, instead of a dessert, with a fine dessert wine to accompany it.
We like to call it also a cheese for meditation, given its pleasantness, even for an after-dinner, can also hold up spirits.
Who knows if there is in the head, after the Brown woman to make even …. The Blonde, The Brunette and The Red!
It has no crust so you can eat everything safely, indeed it must be used the care to taste a piece of cheese with each piece of brown.
Raw cow’s MILK, salt, rennet, penicillium, candied chestnuts (chestnuts, sugar, glucose syrup), rum, cocoa powder.
Allergens: Milk and milk derivatesMilking country:
France
Country of Transformation:
Italy
Shape: cylindrical with flat faces and straight heel and slightly rounded edge;
External appearance: it has no rind, there are browns on both sides and is completely covered with this water, which gives it a brown-brownish-brown colour;
Internal appearance: the paste is soft, moist, tends to break during cutting, especially if a suitable knife is not used, the colour varies from ivory white to pale straw yellow, but also amber where it is deposited, the blue, green to grey marbling of various colours, with an even and regular distribution of the moulds;
Aroma: at first alcoholic toasted, typical of a chocolate cake that blends with the animal one of the stable, followed by the vegetable of the porcini mushroom and hints of undergrowth;
Taste: high flavor, medium low sweetness, medium acidity and slightly bitter, obviously eating the browns, stands out the sweetness. Very persistent, you have to wait a while to analyze all the primary and secondary aromas, in fact it is an aromatic triumph: lactic, vegetable, animal, toasted, spicy, floral …. there are all.
- Food pairings:
End of meal or meditation, varied uses
- Wine pairings:
Sweet dessert wine, super alcohol
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Unit of measurement
Kilo
Package Type
Form wrapped with aluminium paper and vacuum-packed
Weight per piece
approx. 3 Kg
Pieces per box
3 shapes
Storage conditions
Refrigerate from 0°C to +4°C
Transportation
Refrigerated from 0°C to +4°C
Product life in sealed package
30 days
Minimum order quantity
1 shape
Average nutritional values
per 100 g of product
Etichettatura Ambientale
Cosa è | Dove va | |
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Busta | OTHER 7 | Plastica |
Incarto | ALU 41 | Alluminio |
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