Description: 

San Simón da Costa cheese from Don Crisanto is a cheese with a thick, amber-colored rind. The paste is greasy, dense and tight, with a fine texture and almost no eyes, light yellow in color. On the nose, the notes of smoked birch wood stand out above all. In the mouth it is dense, fatty, with notes of nuts and, above all, smoked. 

San Simón da Costa cheese is named after the small town of the same name. It is a cheese typically made in the Vilalba area (Lugo), from cow's milk and smoked for 30 to 45 days (depending on the size) exclusively with birch wood. The family cheese factory Don Crisanto has been making this cheese since 1990 and in 2017 it won the award for the best cheese in Spain in a competition organized by the Ministry of Agriculture, beating 300 other candidates. 

Information of interest: 

Ingredients: Pasteurized cow's milk, rennet, lactic ferments (milk), salt, stabilizer (classical chloride), lysozyme (from eggs), preservatives in the rind coating (E-235).