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
Lorenzo Carrasco is fifty-eight and has six hundred Manchega sheep in Herencia. He takes them out to the cereal stubble every morning, as his father did. He set up the dairy himself in 1985.
His daughter Gema is twenty-nine and makes the cheese. She studied in Madrid and came back meaning to make it only from their own sheep's milk. Lorenzo says that at first he did not believe her.
Gema says co-op Manchego is good and hers is something else. Every cheese is made with milk from a single flock. If she stops, Lorenzo sells the sheep and Herencia has one flock fewer.
How it is made
01
The Manchega ewes are milked twice a day and the raw milk goes straight into the vat.
02
The milk is curdled, the curd is cut and pressed in a mould with a basket-weave pattern.
03
It is salted in brine and the top carries the flower pattern from the mould.
04
It ages for six months in the cellar and is turned every week.
Other regions
Herencia is in the heart of La Mancha, in Ciudad Real, at the foot of the Sierra de Puerto Lápice. Plains of cereal, vines and sheep all the way to the horizon.
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 sheep graze the stubble after the harvest.
- 02Every cheese is made with milk from a single flock.
- 03The whey goes to a neighbouring farm.
Where your money goes
- Gema y Lorenzo Carrasco
- £5.10
- 47%
- Transport
- £0.80
- 7%
- @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 Manchega ewe's milk, rennet, salt and lactic cultures. Rind not edible.
- Allergens
- Contains milk.
- Storage
- In a cool place or at the bottom of the fridge, wrapped in paper.
- Best before
- 8 months from cutting.
- Seal
- PDO Queso Manchego
- Made in
- Herencia, Other regions
