Queijaria Amaral ★ 4.3
Cheese shop in Rua de Santo Ildefonso, Porto, trading since 1928 by its own account. Serra da Estrela is its specialty. Its online shop lists an aged Terrincho, marked coming soon in October 2026.
Cheese stall in the Mercado do Bolhão, Porto, trading for more than 40 years by the market's account. It sells Serra da Estrela, Azeitão and island cheeses, artisanal yoghurt and requeijão.
The Velho is hard, strong and yellowish, with a rind rubbed with a paprika paste. A ten-year tawny is nutty and mellow, and its sweetness softens that strength; the wine records pair these tawnies with aged cheese.
A single-harvest tawny matured for years in cask is sweet and concentrated, with dried fruit at its centre. Set against an extra-hard, slightly piquant goat's cheese, that sweetness softens the tang.
Young Terrincho is mild and clean, with a slightly unctuous, buttery paste. Mineral, saline Douro whites with racy acidity cut the richness.
Address: Mercado do Bolhão, Rua Formosa 322, 4000-248 Porto (stalls B45, B46, B60 and B61), Douro Valley
Cheese shop in Rua de Santo Ildefonso, Porto, trading since 1928 by its own account. Serra da Estrela is its specialty. Its online shop lists an aged Terrincho, marked coming soon in October 2026.
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