Farms, dairies, cooperatives and affineurs in Rías Baixas that you can visit or buy from.
A guide to cheese farms in Rías Baixas.
Dairy beside a pazo with origins in 1713, in the Deza near Lalín (inland Pontevedra province, outside Rías Baixas), making Tetilla and Arzúa-Ulloa; guided visit with tasting, groups book ahead.
Cheeses: Queso Tetilla, Arzúa-Ulloa
Visiting: guided visit with audiovisual and a tasting of Galician cheeses, glass-wall view of cheesemaking when the visit coincides with production, walk around the pazo grounds
Terra Chá dairy founded in 2006 near Vilalba, Lugo province, far from Rías Baixas; a registered DOP San Simón da Costa maker (including the small bufón) that also sells a Tetilla.
Cheeses: San Simón da Costa
Visiting: open to visitors weekdays and Saturday mornings, per its site, school visits
Agricultural cooperative founded in 1996 in As Neves (Condado do Tea, inside Rías Baixas), making traditional requeixo and honey, selling online and organising the town's requeixo and honey fair.
Cheeses: Requeixo
Visiting: online shop for requeixo and honey, stockists listed on its site, organises the Feira do Requeixo e Mel in As Neves
Cheese maker with roots in 1947 to 1949 at Acebedo do Río, Celanova, in Ourense province and outside Rías Baixas; makes Tetilla DOP, requeixo and sheep cheeses; shop on site and online.
Cheeses: Queso Tetilla, Requeixo
Visiting: shop on site at Acebedo do Río, factory pickup of online orders, online shop
Discover the essence of Albariño wines. This guided winery experience takes you through vineyards, inside a modern yet tradition-driven cellar, and a tasting of three ...
You will get to know our facilities, where we will explain the different processes of grape transformation and wine production until bottling. Two wines and a vermouth...
You will get to know our facilities, where we will explain the different processes of grape transformation and wine production until bottling. Two wines and a vermouth...
A concave-convex cone with a small nipple at the tip, 9 to 15 cm tall, according to the DOP consortium; the rules set the height between the radius and the diameter of the base.
Galician Wikipedia says it can also be taken with a young red wine or with Albariño, after a list of simple companions. It does not call this the local pairing, so our Albariño pairing is an editorial one.
It is a Galician DOP, not a Rías Baixas one. The consortium lists makers in A Coruña, Lugo, Pontevedra and Ourense provinces, including Lalín and Agolada in Pontevedra.
The register allows up to 26 cm across, 5 to 12 cm high and 0.5 to 3.5 kg. The most common size is 18 to 20 cm across and 6 to 8 cm high, according to Galician Wikipedia.
Sources differ. Galician Wikipedia names light white wines such as Ribeiro or Albariño; Spanish Wikipedia names full-bodied reds. Spanish Wikipedia adds quince paste or honey if it is eaten plain.
A version made only from the milk of the cheesemaker's own cows, with the same characteristics as the standard cheese, according to Spanish Wikipedia.
It is matured at least six months and has a compact, deep yellow paste and a buttery, salty flavour, while the standard cheese needs only six days and is soft and mild.
Spanish Wikipedia gives it as a traditional Galician name of the aged cheese, along with queixo do tempo dos nabos and queixo do ano.