Tresviso: The Cave-Aged Blue Cheese of the Picos
Cantabria, Spain
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Tresviso: The Cave-Aged Blue Cheese of the Picos
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Picón Bejes-Tresviso is a blue cheese with protected designation since 1994, cured in natural caves in the Picos de Europa exactly as Cabrales in Asturias and Valdeón in León are cured — the same mountain, three names, three appellations. The paste is white with blue-green veining from Penicillium growing in the cave air. Tresviso itself has around fifty inhabitants, and the oddity is that although it is in Cantabria there is no road to it from Cantabria: the only road in comes from Asturias, and reaching the rest of your own region by car means about forty kilometres.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Drive the narrow mountain road into Tresviso, cut into the Picos de Europa cliff face — one of the most remote villages in mainland Spain
2
of 4
Find the natural limestone caves above the village where Picón Bejes-Tresviso is aged for two to four months at 5–10°C
3
of 4
Taste Picón directly from a producer in Tresviso — a blend of cow's, sheep's and goat's milk unique among Spain's blue cheeses
4
of 4
Continue to Bejes, the cheese's other namesake village, on the descent back toward the coast
Drive the narrow mountain road into Tresviso, cut into the Picos de Europa cliff face — one of the most remote villages in mainland Spain
Find the natural limestone caves above the village where Picón Bejes-Tresviso is aged for two to four months at 5–10°C
Taste Picón directly from a producer in Tresviso — a blend of cow's, sheep's and goat's milk unique among Spain's blue cheeses
Continue to Bejes, the cheese's other namesake village, on the descent back toward the coast
Before you go
The road up to Tresviso is single-lane, cut into the cliff, with very few passing places and no barrier — it is not a road for a large motorhome.
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