Organic mancheso cheese

Queso Manchego is the best known sheep's milk cheese in Spain. Furthermore, outside of Spain it is the most famous of Spains sheep's milk cheeses. The shape of this cheese is very characteristic and defined, due to the traditional use of esparto grass molds which imprints a zigzag pattern on the cylinder sides. The small wooden boards used for pressing the cheese also imprints the typical wheat ear pattern on the top and bottom.

The combination of these rustic molds made of fine materials and careful manual work is not used only in La Mancha. Thus there are other Spanish sheep's milk cheeses with a similar shape and markings, known commonly as "Manchego style" cheese. The true Manchego cheese, however, is made only from whole milk of the Manchega sheep raised in the La Mancha region.