The renowned cabrales blue cheese of northern Spain is matured in mountain caves and often adorns towering sirloin steaks. But the Asturian delicacy scaled new heights at the weekend when a 2.2kg wheel fetched €30,000.
It earned the honour of being the world’s most expensive cheese at auction after it was named best cabrales of the year at the principality’s 51st annual competition.
“We knew we had a good cheese but also that it is very difficult to win,” Guillermo Pendás, who made it for his family’s Los Puertos factory, told EFE, Spain’s state news agency.
Rosa Vada, his mother and the company’s owner, said the cheese had been matured in a cave at an altitude of 1,400 metres, at a temperature of 7C, where
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