Muntagna
High in eastern Corsica, between Corte and Aléria, Mr Baldovini carries on the island’s cheesemaking tradition at his family-run dairy. This hard raw-milk cheese is a true expression of Corsican terroir.
The cheese takes the form of a small barrel weighing around a kilo, recognisable by its ridged rind dressed in a handsome autumnal orange. Beneath this generous coat, the ivory-white paste, dense and marbled, can turn slightly crumbly with ageing.
Young, the cheese gives off delicate scents of the maquis, its paste still keeping a certain tenderness. As it matures, the texture grows more crumbly, while the flavours reveal saline, mineral notes characteristic of the great mountain cheeses.
A cheese that carries within it the wild, sun-drenched soul of Corsica.
Categorie
Sheep's milk cheeses
Région
Corse
Lait
Ewes
Terroir
Montagne corse
