 | Description: In the Navarra region of the Spanish Pyrenees, lies the Roncal Valley. Seven villages make up this valley and control the production and marketing of the first Spanish name-controlled cheese, Roncal. Record of this cheese’s production dates back as far as the thirteenth century, when the citizens of these towns worked together to raise sheep and to tend horses and the forests of the Pyrenees. Each year they would herd their flocks up the mountains to the high pastures in the spring, and each fall they would lead them back down and take their products to market. Roncal is still a product of the fresh mountain air, and it still made from raw sheep’s milk. It is ripened slowly over the course of several months to develop a rustic, nutty and olivey flavor and a moist, smooth texture. Made from unpasteurized sheep's milk.
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Type of Milk: Sheep
Where is it Produced: Spain
Wine Pairings:
| Syrah: The cheese has a mild animal flavor mixed with touches of butter, dried fruit and mushrooms which compliment the black fruit, earth and black pepper notes in the wine.
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| Tempranillo: The sheep and mountain floraflavor elements of the cheese and the fruit and the backbone of the wine create great full flavored balance
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