Brand: Il Forteto
Category: Gourmet

Buy New: $7.99

Sales Rank: 54323

Country: italy
Size: 8 ounce

ASIN: B0000D9N50

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	A superb hard cheese from Tuscany
•	Excellent grated or served thinly sliced
•	Pair with a Tuscan red wine
•	Made from pure sheep's milk
•	Imported from Tuscany, Italy

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Product Description
Each Oro Antico Riserva is handmade by the master cheese-maker at Il Forteto by taking a select, young, delicious, authentic Pecorino Toscano, burnishing it with olive oil and aging it in a stone cellar for six months. During aging, more olive oil is applied to the rind as the cheese gets harder and tangier. Finally, each cheese is given a seal of red wax to indicate its special heritage. Oro Antico Riserva has a grainy texture due to the aging process whereby most traces of moisture escape from within the cheese. Made from 100% ewe's milk, the flavor is delivered to the back of your tongue with delicate force, imparting overtures of wild herbs and lemon grass. Because sheep's milk contains a very high percentage of butterfat, Pecorinos are very flavorful but have a tendency to "cry" when they reach room temperature. Made from pasteurized ewe's milk.