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Azeitao
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Azeitão is a gourmet cheese made from raw sheep's milk that is produced at the foot of the Arrabida Mountains in Portugal.
Azeitão has a strong, earthy aroma. The paste is thick, soft, smooth and shiny. When the cheese is ripe it has a rich, creamy flavor with a sour-milk finish and a hint of flowers. Thistle flower is used instead of rennet. A ripe cheese will start to run at room temperature.
The older the cheese the harder and drier the paste will get and the intenser the flavor. The gourmet cheese is at its best when it is full, but still very rewarding when just over the top and flatter in form....
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Bica de Queija
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Bica de Queija is a raw farmhouse gourmet cheese from Portugal made from a blend of cow, goat, and sheep's milk.
Bica Cheese has a distinctive yet mild, buttery flavor and a satiny texture and weighs approx. 14 ounces. Like most Portuguese cheeses, this gourmet cheese has a distinct flavor, slightly salty because its milk comes from animals that graze on land that sits by the sea....
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San Jorge
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San Jorge is produced from the milk of cows that graze on the Island of Are Jorge, in the Açores, Portugal. The aroma of the cheese and the flavor are strong, clean and slightly spiced.
The rind is hard, with a smooth surface and a yellow color, sometimes with chestnut-colored spots and coated with paraffin. The maturation process is 1-3 months long and the result is a firm cheese with small 'eyes' and a yellowish color....
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