Cabrales
May 22nd, 2012 Posted 3:35 pm
Cabrales is a Spanish blue cheese made primarily from cow’s milk but often with ewe and goat added.It has a grey/green colouration and a crumbly texture. It’s flavour, however, is a somewhat acquired taste.
 Cabrales This cheese should come with a warning. Tasting is not for the feint of heart. It starts off pleasant enough, it’s paste is initially creamy, but then something awful happens. The acrid taste hits you like you’re chewing on a wasp, sharp, acid, bitter. It instantly dries the mouth, turning it inside-out and making it difficult to swallow. Then it burns and burns… and then it burns some more. I can only liken it to licking the corroded contacts of leaky PP3 battery. Once swallowed, the bitter aftertaste lingers and it leaves you with a sore throat. This is the vindaloo of the cheese world. Used, I’m sure, by young, testosterone charged, Spanish men, as a post drinking session test of machismo. It is worth tasting, if only for the experience, but it is advisable to have a large glass of water close to hand. |
Tasted at La Fromagerie, London (no, we didn’t buy any)
Reviewed by Nick & Olympia 2010
(0/5)
Posted in Blue, Cow's milk, Goat's milk, Sheep's milk, Spanish, Unusual cheese
8:47 am on May 30th, 2012
seems to me that this unlucky piece was tasted by so many before you who indeed dit not buy… when is such a piece overdate?…
1:52 pm on June 1st, 2012
La Fromagerie is possibly the most reputable cheese shop in England. They keep their cheese in a temperature and humidity controlled room. So, I’m pretty sure that the cabrales we tasted was in date and tasted as it was supposed to taste.
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