We offer a list of the ten most expensive cheeses, some of which are incredibly rare. After reading this article, you may want to try these delicacies that are not presented on shelves in ordinary supermarkets.
10. Jersey Blue
The cheese is named after the Jersey breed of cows, from the milk of which the product is made. The prefix "Blue" means that the cheese has blue mold. Now the technology for the production of this type of cheese belongs to the Swiss cheese makers.
The cost of a kilogram of Jersey Blue is almost 9 thousand Russian rubles.
9. Epoisses by Germain
Cheese with a characteristic pungent odor, because the heads of the finished product are soaked for a month in brine or cognac, and then stored in a dark basement with high humidity for a whole month! But, despite the frightening description, the cheese looks very beautiful. Its crust of saturated orange is covered with fluffy white mold. And inside the cheese is absolutely melted, tender and soft. One has only to cut the crust, as a viscous cheese mass flows out.
And the cheese tastes creamy (made from milk) with a fruity-sweetish flavor.
The cost of only one hundred grams of such cheese is approximately ten dollars.
8. Old Ford
The first cheese in our top, the basis of which is not cow's milk, but goat's milk. Typically, goat milk cheeses have a soft structure and a delicate taste. But with Old Ford, things are a little different: the cheese has a dense texture, and before it goes on sale, it gets old. It is believed that the cheese is older, the tastier it is.
The price per kilogram of this variety starts at one hundred dollars.
The fact is that goats initially produce less milk than cows. In addition, manual labor is used to make Old Ford, so the high price of the product fully justifies itself.
It’s impossible to buy this cheese from a store shelf just like that: it is purchased at expensive auctions. Indeed, the ripening period of one cheese head is 10 years! Although the cheese itself begins to be created half an hour after the milking of the cow, thereby not starting the process of fermentation and bacterial formation.
Depending on the maturity, the cheese is divided into Extra and Old, hence the name. Cheese is produced in China, although it was originally invented and produced in Italy.
For a hundred grams of such cheese, the seller will ask for at least $ 30, that is, almost 2,000 rubles.
6. Wyke Farms Cheddar
The cheese has a dry texture, although in itself it is a very fatty product. The smell is poorly captured, the salt is not very felt in the cheese. But in the process of chewing, you will have a desire to wash the cheese with water, because it will seem to you dry and hard to consume. However, it is worth swallowing it, as the thirst disappears, and even the feeling that the cheese was dry.
But this way you can’t eat more than 30-50 grams of cheese at a time without bread or liquids.
This variety has no pungent odor, like some of its predecessors in our top.
5. Clawson Stilton Gold
They caught the word "Gold" in the name of the cheese, which means "gold?" Yes, yes, the composition of this cheese includes the well-known expensive element!
The production of this kind of cheese itself is not unusual: even cow uses milk for it. However, this product is recognized as the most expensive cheese in the UK. For 100 grams, the seller will take at least $ 92. The cheese becomes so expensive when gold liqueur and gold flakes are added to it.
Golden cheese is an indispensable ingredient on the Christmas table with famous people or gourmets.
4. Elk House
The only cheese in our top made from moose milk. The price for five hundred grams of this cheese will be approximately equal to five hundred dollars. This milk is produced on a farm; three moose cow give milk. Each year, each animal produces approximately 300 liters of milk.
Cheese to taste resembles affordable feta, only moose milk cheese is much fatter and has a more salty and milky taste. Such cheese can only be purchased at the farm, where the product is directly created. Or in one of the stores in Sweden.
3. Moose Cheese
Cheese is made in Sweden and is made from the milk of three specific cows, nicknamed Juno, Helga and Gula. When the cows were calves, their mother abandoned them, and the farmer took care of the small animals.
Cows take milk from May to September, animals live in complete peace and love. Due to the short period of milk collection, a cow owner produces only 300 kilograms of cheese per year, which justifies the high price of the product: five hundred euros per kilogram.
2. Pule Cheese
A kilogram of cheese of this variety is estimated at 1,000 euros!
And all because Pula cheese is the only cheese from our top, which is made from donkey milk. Moreover, they make it in the only place on Earth - on the Zasavica farm.
The complexity of the production of this product lies in the fact that to create one kilogram of cheese you need fresh milk in an amount of twenty-five liters. But per day, one donkey of the Balkan breed gives an average of only 200 milliliters of milk!
The bullet has a pleasant smell, soft texture and friable consistency. No harsh fragrances or moldy crusts.
1. Caciocavallo Podolico
Italian cheese from Podolico cows, hence the name of the product.
For one hundred grams of cheese, the manufacturer sets a price of $ 160, almost 10,000 Russian rubles. The peculiarity in the creation of cheese lies in the cows themselves. The fact is that every summer animals are sent to graze on meadows and pastures planted with lush grass and various berries.
Animals are surrounded by harmony and calm, this, of course, affects the quality of milk. Fresh berries consumed by the food convey a slightly sweet, fruity flavor to the milk.