Pecorino Matusalem “RESERVE”

2020, a terrible year, left us a legacy of this amazing cheese, made because we had an excess of cheese, and instead of making many small wheels we had some large wheels of pecorino produced, in fact each wheel of these has the content of 8 Piparello forms. But its uniqueness lies not in its size, but in the fact that it is produced not with whole milk, as everyone does, but with semi-fat milk, i.e. a quantity of cream is removed from the milk, thus losing product yield, but making a less fatty cheese.

The name, Matusalem, taken as inspiration from the world of wine, suggests that it is a large cheese, in fact the production technique is the same as our Piparello, (another historic cheese), but being a wheel weighing around 22 kg it corresponds approximately 8 shapes weighing approximately 2.8 kg, this is the case for the Mathusalem bottles which contain a capacity of 6 litres, equivalent to 8 classic bottles.

An impressive cheese, large in size, in fact it is the largest in our entire assortment of pecorino cheeses, it is put on the market after approximately 12 months of aging in caves.

The taste is something amazing, an elegance, a balance, a pleasantness on the palate that is impossible to describe. There is only one problem: few will be able to taste it because the production is only 10 wheels per year, so only those who book it in time can guarantee this true exclusivity.