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Pecorino Nero
Description
A soft cheese, aged about thirty days, with a milk-white paste and a delicate yet pungent taste that only the sheep milk from the Volterra CliffsArea characterised by gorges created by hillside slides and slippages caused by the erosive action of atmospheric precipitations. The water infiltrates the permeable sandy deposits at the top of the Volterra hill and removes the impermeable clay under them, thus causing the clay’s progressive retreat and the ensuing slide due to the collapse of the sandy and arenaceous layers lying over it. This imposing erosion process, active for some centuries, has even affected a portion of an Etruscan necropolis and the ancient church of San Giusto al Botro, forever engulfed into the abyss during the first half of the 17th century. can impart.
Suggestions
Perfect with cold meats, broad beans, and fresh seasonal vegetables in general.
