Špin Istrian sheep cheese 230 g

Region of origin: Istra

This sheep milk cheese belongs to the group of hard full-fat cheeses with slightly more intense flavour than cow milk cheese. Yet the standard spicyness of sheep milk is aptly tamed to preserve the milky and mild flavour, so that it also belongs among children’s favourites. Sheep milk cheese texture is crisper than cow milk cheese, so that it does not turn creamy in the mouth but keeps its granular appearance, which endows it with a quaint and rustic note. Ideally served with hot pepper marmalade or honey. Sheep milk cheeses require rustic red wines so it will pair well with a good merlot.
 
The story of Špin cheese begins and ends at stancija Špin, a sheep farm on the north-west coast of Istria in Tar near Poreč, only two kilometres away from the sea. The region has a long history of livestock and sheep raising so that it is only natural for this stancija estate to have specialised in sheep farming in the course of the 20th century. Today’s modern dairy farm flanks the traditional Istrian house Špin, a perfect illustration of the approach to the production of Špin cheese with modern technology complementing the wisdom of our century old dairy farming tradition. Špin Istrian cheeses bear a unique signature of the Istrian soil, drawing out the very best from the Istrian climate. Istrian pasture lands where our darling cows and our darling sheep graze make the most of the vicinity of the Adriatic Sea that provides the sun, the salt and the inebriating grass fragrance, while the Mirna River and Mount Učka bring along frequent rains and mainland coolness.

Product code: 1360080