Finca Pascualete Pastura con Trufa
- Semi Soft Cheese
- Sheep's Milk Pasteurized
- Extremadura Spain
Pastura con Trufa (truffle) is a pasteurized sheep’s milk cheese has a delicate rind that is white in color and protects a soft paste with flakes of earthy, black truffle pieces. The texture of the paste is creamy and smooth. The flavor is very characteristic of the milk and the curdling, with a distinctly unique aroma of truffle. The rind is characterized by a bloomy mold (Penicillium candidum). Its delicate sweetness balances the pungent flavor of the black truffle. Pastura de Trufa is a fresh cheese, matured for at least 15 days. Prized truffles from the province of Soria are harvested in January and February in the foothills of the Picos de Urbion and safely stored in tins for especially for this cheese.
Finca Pascualete is a family run business whose origins date back to the beginning of the XIII Century. In 1232 Don Fernán Ruiz Altamirano, after helping in the conquest of Trujillo, was given this land that is today Finca Pascualete, located in the heart of Extremadura’s pasture lands. It is here where, for centuries various generations of farmers have been supplementing their families’ diets by making cheeses from their sheep’s milk. Over time their recipes evolved, competing amongst each other to see who could achieve the most exquisite flavour, as well as creating varieties of cheeses that could be stored during months in their primitive stone huts.
Crowned by an old mansion from Romanic origin, the estate finds itself nestled in a unique environment, thanks to the Magasca and Tamuja Rivers which run through it. On the estate one finds forests filled with Holm Oaks, Cork Oaks and many herbs and spices, like rockrose, juniper, thyme, tender leaves of the blackberry bush, and rosemary, which provide their livestock with a natural diet.