List of Spanish cheeses

Queso Manchego

Cheese sometimes accompanies other foods such as ham and other cold cuts.

A wide variety of cheeses are made throughout the country of Spain.

Some of the Spanish cheeses are internationally renowned, such as the Manchego cheese of La Mancha. Some regions are better known for their cheeses than others; 26 cheeses are classified as Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P.—Denominación de Origen Protegida) by Spain and the European Union. Many of the cheeses are manufactured from single types of milk (cow, goat or sheep), but a few are mixtures of different milks, and the milk may be raw, pasteurised or creamy. The cheeses are made in a wide variety of styles including fresh, cured, semi-cured and pressed paste, and some are inoculated with mould to make blue varieties. There is a huge variation in the presentation of cheeses, from the hard, dark-skinned, two-kilo Manchego to the soft, small quesitos.

A list of Spanish cheeses follows, grouped by an alphabetical ordering of geographic regions.^[1]

Andalucía[]

• Queso de las Alpujarras (P.D.O.)^[2]
• ^[3] from raw sheep milk, mostly merino of Sierra de Cazorla, goat milk, cow milk and mixtures of all three
• Queso payoyo^[4] of Grazalema, in the Sierra de Cádiz
• , Córdoba
• ^[5] Mainly goat milk with Quinkana brand and mixture milk (cow and goat) with brand "La Abuela Valle", near Cordoba, Sierra Morena and Guadalquivir Valley

Aragon[]

• , which was cited by Cervantes in Don Quixote, and made with sheep milk or mixed with goat milk

Asturias[]

Queso de Cabrales

• Queso Cabrales (P.D.O.)^[6]
• Queso de Afuega el pitu (P.D.O)^[6]
• Queso Casín^[6] (P.D.O.)
• Queso de Gamonedo (D.O.)^[6]

Balearic Islands[]

Formatge de Maó

• Formatge de Maó, Menorca.(P.D.O.)^[7]
• Formatge Mallorquí (P.D.O.)^[7]

Basque Country[]

• Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)^[8] shared with Navarre and obtained from Lachen sheep

Canary Islands[]

• Queso majorero (P.D.O.)^[9]
• Queso de flor (P.D.O.)^[9]
• Queso palmero (P.D.O.)^[9]

Cantabria[]

• Picón Bejes-Tresviso (P.D.O.)^[10] is very similar to Asturian Cabrales, but also has unique features
• (P.D.O.)^[10]
• Queso Nata de Cantabria (P.D.O.)^[10]
• , with an aroma similar to smoked beef

Castile–La Mancha[]

• Queso Manchego (P.D.O.)

Castile and León[]

Queso zamorano

• Queso zamorano (P.D.O.)^[11]
• Queso de Valdeón (P.D.O.)^[11]
• Queso pata de mulo

Catalonia[]

Mató

• Formatge de l'Alt Urgell i la Cerdanya (P.D.O.)^[12]
• Formatge de la Garrotxa
• (Pyrenees)
• (Pallars)
• Mató
• (Pallars Sobirà)
• Tupí (Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees)

Extremadura[]

Queso Ibores

• Queso de La Serena, or Torta de La Serena (P.D.O.)^[13]
• Queso Ibores (P.D.O.)^[13]
• Torta del Casar (P.D.O.)^[13]

Galicia[]

Queso de Tetilla

• Queso de Tetilla (P.D.O.)^[14] made from the milk of the Rubia gallega cow
• Queso Arzúa-Ulloa (P.D.O.)^[14]
• (P.D.O.)^[14]

Murcia[]

• Queso de Murcia al vino (P.D.O.)^[15] a cheese made from the pasteurized milk of Murcian goats
• Queso de Murcia (P.D.O.)^[15] another cheese made from Murcian goat milk but with characteristics which differ from Queso al Vino

Navarre[]

Queso Idiazábal

• Queso Idiazábal (P.D.O.)^[16]
• Queso Roncal (P.D.O.)^[16]
• , Menhaden sheep milk
• , goat milk
• , goat milk
• , cow milk or a mixture with goat milk

Valencian Community[]

See also[]

• List of cheeses
• Spanish cuisine

References[]

External links[]

• Cheeses of Spain with Designation of Origin - www.queseros.com
• Spanish cheese in the world