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Shropshire Blue 1kg

The Shropshire Blu is an English cheese, precisely Scottish, and it is one of the rare and delicious cases where our portal looks outside of Italy. Exceptional cheese! Made with pasteurized cow's milk, soft, with a unique and very pleasant taste.

This cheese has a gray-brown rind, hard, cracked, and speckled with various molds. The paste is orange: it owes its characteristic color to the addition of a natural coloring agent, annatto. Annatto is a natural yellow-reddish dye (E160b), a carotenoid extracted from a wild plant from the Amazon: Bixa orellana. The intense orange of annatto blends well with the green mold of Penicillium roqueforti. After salting, the product is aged for at least 12 weeks, but it's worth waiting longer.


Shropshire Cheese: the History


The Shropshire Blu begins its history in Scotland in an attempt to imitate the noble Stilton, with the trick of adding annatto to the vegetable rennet. Shropshire Blu was first made in Inverness, in the Scottish Highlands, by cheesemaker Andy Williamson, who had learned the art of producing Stilton in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands, where he named it Inverness-shire Blue or Blue Stuart. The success was immediate, and the cheese was sold throughout the British Isles as Shropshire Blue, a name created for the market.

Shropshire Blue 1kg: How is it produced

Lo Shropshire Blu é un formaggio che inizia la sua storia in Scozia nel tentativo di imitare il nobile Stilton, con l’accorgimento però di aggiungere dell’annatto nella cagliata vegetale. Lo Shropshire Blu venne caseificato per la prima volta ad Inverness, nelle Highland scozzesi, dal casaro Andy Williamson il quale aveva imparato l’arte di produrre lo Stilton nel Nottinghamshire, nelle Midlands Orientali, dove lo battezzò Inverness-shire Blue o Blue Stuart. Il successo fu immediato e il formaggio venne venduto in tutte le isole britanniche come Shropshire Blue, un nome inventato per il mercato.

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Ingredients Shropshire Blue 1kg

Raw sheep's milk, rennet, salt, penicilium roquefort

Allergens: milk and dairy products

Nutritional values

Average nutritional values per 100g of product

Energy: 343kcal
Fat: 29g of which saturates 20g
Carbohydrates: 0.5g of which sugars 0g
Protein: 20g
Salt: 2g

Shropshire Blue 1kg: use in the kitchen

The Shropshire Blu (which we present here in a 1kg portion) is wonderful in the kitchen for preparing soups and sauces!
Great pairings: a fortified wine like Port or Madeira, but also a semi-dry Marsala, or, to keep with the English taste, it can be paired with a good dark Ale beer, if not a Guinness


Shropshire Blu: characteristics


Shropshire Blu is a soft cheese, creamy and very flavorful, made from pasteurized cow's milk, featuring a pleasant contrast of colors. When it reaches a strong aging, it resembles a stone covered in moss. On the palate, it is very rich and creamy. 

This cheese has been selected for you directly by a great Veneto affineur, Giuseppe Bernardinelli from I Sapori del Portico.

Tasting notes

Lo Shropshire Blu è un formaggio a pasta molle, cremoso e molto saporito, ottenuto da latte vaccino pastorizzato, che si presenta con un piacevole contrasto di colori.

Quando raggiunge una stagionatura sostenuta assomiglia a una pietra ricoperta di muschio. Al palato è molto grasso e cremoso, con un sottofondo di nocciola e un finale penicillico.

Shropshire Blue 1kg: pairings

Ottimi abbinamenti: un vino fortificato come un Porto o un Madeira, ma anche un Marsala semisecco, oppure, per restare nel gusto inglese, si può avvicinare a una buona birra Ale scura Stout, se non una Guinness.

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51,50 for porzione da 1kg ca.


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