Garrotxa hails from Catalonia, where it almost went extinct. With little interest in Spanish cheeses, production this cheese dwindled until the early 1980’s, when a 20-something named Josep Martí helped spearhead a movement to revitalize the traditional farmstead products of the area, including Garrotxa! Production of this cheese is small - with only a dozen people working at Martí’s family dairy, Sant Gil D’Albió. With a natural, grey rind, these small rounds look more like smooth rocks than cheese. But, cut it open and it will reveal a bone-white interior of semi-hard goat’s milk cheese. Garrotxa has a delicate, minerally quality and flavors of tangy milk, grass and herbs. Enjoy with marcona almonds.
Garrotxa
- Size
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- 4/2lbs
- Cheese Type
- Aged Pressed
- Texture
- Firm
- Milk
- Goat
- Milk Treatment
- Pasteurized
- Rind
- Natural
- Coagulant
- Traditional
- Aging
- 75 days
- Producer/Affineur
- (Sant Gil D’Albió) Josep Martí
- Location
- Catalonia, Spain
- Retail Pack
- No