Caciocavallo Lucano 1,8Kg

The caciocavallo lucano is a traditional noble cheese from Basilicata, a region in the South of Italy. This cheese is made with milk from Podolica cows, a domestic cattle from Southern Italy. This cheese is named after the peculiar ageing process. It is tied together with a rope and then hung on 'a cavallo' (which literally means cheese on horseback) upon a horizontal stick. It is a fat cheese with semi-hard, stretched texture. Its shape can weigh between 1.5 kg and 2.5 kg and it shows the traditional spheroidal shape. Its rind is thin and smooth with a pale yellow colour verging to straw yellow or amber with the age. Its texture is elastic and ivory-white coloured. It gets darker as the ageing gets longer. It is considered as an aromatic cheese which shows spicy features with the age.