Mature Mahón-Menorca PDO cheese
Joana Pons in Es Migjorn Gran · 400 g wedge
£12.00
VAT included
In London you can find it in these shops.
Before you order it to your door, see if a shop is near you. They keep it for you and you pick it up when it suits you.
- Colmado Hackney
Chatsworth Road 61, London
Tue to Fri 12:00 to 20:00 · Sat to Sun 11:00 to 17:00
- Despensa Northcote
Northcote Road 74, London
Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00 · Sat 10:00 to 17:00
If there is no shop near you, we send it to your door.
Delivery to United Kingdom: £17.10, 4 to 6 days.
Delivery already includes customs and taxes. You pay nothing more when it arrives.
Who makes it
Sa Vinyeta Vella is a farm in Es Migjorn Gran with sixty cows, dry-stone walls and a dairy from 1962. Joana Pons started helping her mother there at twelve. She is forty-two now and makes the cheese herself.
Her parents retired in 2024 and her brother lives in Barcelona. On her own she could not manage the milking, the cheese and the paperwork. That winter the farm joined @seis and Joana stayed on to run the dairy.
She says Mahón is made with your hands, squeezing the cloth. That is why every cheese has a slightly different face. If she stops, Es Migjorn has one dairy fewer. There are only three left.
How it is made
01
The cows are milked twice a day and the raw milk goes straight into the vat.
02
The curd goes into a cloth and is pressed by hand: hence the square shape and the mark of the knot.
03
It is salted in brine and aged in the cellar for more than five months.
04
While it ages, the rind is rubbed with oil and paprika, which gives it its colour.
Balearic Islands
Es Migjorn Gran is in the middle of Menorca, among ravines that run down to the sea. The fields are divided by dry-stone walls and each one has its own wooden gate.
What we are allowed to say
Mature cheese is high in calcium. Calcium is needed for the maintenance of normal bones.
What they do so it lasts
- 01The cows graze the farm's walled fields almost all year.
- 02The dry-stone walls are mended by hand and keep moisture in the soil.
- 03A neighbour takes the whey for his pigs.
Where your money goes
- Joana Pons
- £4.90
- 45%
- Transport
- £1.00
- 9%
- @seis
- £2.00
- 18%
- The shop or home delivery
- £3.10
- 28%
Out of £10.90, the price before VAT. The VAT, £1.10, goes to the state.
What the label says
- Format
- 400 g wedge
- Ingredients
- Raw cow's milk, salt, rennet and lactic cultures. Rind rubbed with olive oil and paprika.
- Allergens
- Contains milk.
- Storage
- In a cool place or at the bottom of the fridge, wrapped in paper. Take it out an hour before eating.
- Best before
- 6 months from cutting.
- Seal
- PDO Mahón-Menorca
- Made in
- Es Migjorn Gran, Balearic Islands
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