02-12-2009
The new Spanish cheese DOP “Camerano” begins the commercialization of its products.
The regional president of La Rioja stuck the first label of this quality brand last Wednesday 18 of November in our Cheese Factory.
According with our guideline of improvement and our desire to satisfy our customers’ needs, it is a pleasure to inform you about The New Denomination of Origin D.O.P. QUESO CAMERANO for our goat’s cheese. The regional president of La Rioja, Pedro Sanz, stuck the first label of this quality brand last Wednesday 18 of November in our Cheese Factory.Pedro Sanz visited the premises to know about the elaboration process of this cheese coming from Cameros mountain area. With this first label has begun the commercialization of the first cheeses certified and linked in origin with the Spanish region of La Rioja.
Camerano’s cheese obeys some well-defined characteristics, like the production from pasteurized goat’s milk from the farmers located in the protected area, which could be raw milk for the ripened cheeses. It has “cilla” form (crossover wicker, used in the past for the elaboration of the Camerano’s cheese), and they are whole pieces between 200 and 1.200 grams. It was born in the Cameros mountain range, La Rioja. At the end of the 60’s Decade there was an exodus to the valley, and in addition to the bad healthy conditions associated with the production of this cheese in that time, caused its gradual extinction. Some years ago this traditional cheese production process was recuperated from the past of the Rioja’s region history.
The Camerano produced in Los Cameros’s premises is cheese with natural rind, elaborated from pasteurized goat’s milk without additives substances in the production process, being used only natural ingredients like milk, rennet, lactic ferments, calcium and salt. According with the French traditional methods, we allow the development of natural moulds around the rind, obtaining the wished bouquet for the cheeses.
Last 3rd October, Los Cameros cheese maker won with its goat’s cheese D.O. “Camerano” the silver medal in the prestigious international “World Cheese Awards”, where 130 cheese experts tasted more than 3.000 cheeses from all over the world.
