Crema de Cabrales Cheese Spread from Asturias

Cabrales is a bold cheese, packed with spicy, intense flavor to please the most discerning lovers of blue cheese. Cabrales is aged in mountain caves in Asturias (the one we visited was an old Roman mine!) and is a work of art, mixing cow, goat and sheep's milk and creating one of the world's great cheeses.

This creamy blue cheese spread is an elegant appetizer - full of sharp Cabrales flavor with a suave creamy consistency! Serve with fine crackers or crusty bread, fresh fruit and perhaps a glass of cider or white wine. Spread on steak before grilling.

Better still, prepare an unrivaled blue cheese salad dressing with Crema de Cabrales: Take half a jar of Crema de Cabrales; thin with 4 oz of apple cider and 2 oz of cream. If you are a purist, just blend 3.5 ounces of the Crema de Cabrales with 8 ounces of fresh cream. ¡Que rico!

The shepherds, whose flocks are grazing on the cliffs, make the cheese from cow's, goat's and ewe’s milk and store the freshly formed cheese on rustic shelves within the caves. This traditional aging produces an intense blue cheese such as you have never tasted before.

It is absolutely artisan and natural - a cheese with no artificially introduced mold, as is the case for Bleu and Roquefort cheese.