Region: Madrid

Mr. Roy is named in honor of the Galician cheesemonger who introduced cheesemaker Juan Luis to classic cheddars in England. The rare Guadarrama goat milk’s unique fatty composition, their diverse diet in the Dehesa, and the shifting flora in La Cabezuela’s maturation room in the mountains all lend to this cheese an ever-evolving range of…

This unique bloomy cheese is made from the milk of a single herd of indigenous Guadarrama goats, a breed that Royuela/La Cabazuela is working on bringing back from the brink of extinction (cheesemaker Juan Luis is one of the only ones still making cheese from this breed). Delicate hand-salting allows for the flavor expression of…