Cerrato Trashumante is a mixed cheese made from sheep and cow milk

• Exhibitor: QUESOS CERRATO
• Brand name: Cerrato TRASHUMANTE
• Sector: PASTA DURA

A tribute to Transhumance, the most ancient way of feeding livestock that returns to the streets of Madrid every year. A traditional event that has created unforgettable scenes over the past decades, with thousands of sheep filling the main streets of the capital, like the Puerta de Alcalá that illustrates the label of our Cerrato Trashumante.  

Cerrato Trashumante is a mixed cheese made from sheep and cow milk, pressed paste, and with a long maturation process. It has a very fruity and intense flavor, even spicy at the end.

The cooperative Quesos Cerrato was founded in 1968 by a group of ranchers from the Cerrato region, characterized by abundant pastures with an excellent wild flora rich in aromatic plants, as a means of overcoming the difficulties they had in marketing their productions at a reasonable price. sheep, goat and cow milk.
Since 2006, Quesos Cerrato has been part of the Agropal cooperative, one of the main cooperatives in Spain made up of more than 8,000 farmers and ranchers from Castilla y León and Cantabria who deliver their agricultural production (cereals, alfalfa, vetch, fodder, oilseeds) to the cooperative , protein crops and legumes) and livestock (meat and milk), which the cooperative transforms into unique and exclusive cheeses at the factory located in Baltanás, a town that has an important artisanal cheese-making tradition that served as the basis for the development of the cooperative.