The black peppercorn Pecorino Calcagno is a typical cheese products exclusively with selected sheep’s milk, adding for last black peppercorns which give a typical taste and spice. It is aged only between December and May when milk has a superior quality. It is produced with milk taken from sheeps feeding wild spontaneous grasses in the typical mountains and hills sicilian area.
| Range |
Aged portioned cheeses |
| Product |
Pecorino Calcagno with black peppercorn 300g |
| Area of production |
Province of Trapani |
| Category |
Semi-cooked paste cheese |
| Ingredients |
Pasteurized sheep’s milk, whole black peppercorns, salt, rennet, milk enzymes |
| External appearance |
Wedge |
| Flavour |
Savoury, pleasantly piquant and aromatic |
| Paste |
Hard, close-textured or with light eye formation, whitish in colour tending towards light straw colouring |
| Rind |
Natural |
| Ageing |
210 days |
| Shelf life |
180 days |
| Product ean code |
2285919 |
| Sale unit |
Single wedge, vacuum-packed with heat-shrinking film |
| Variable size |
g 300 |
| Type of package |
Carton |
| Pieces x package |
16 |
| Cartons per pallet |
72 |
| Storage temperature |
+ 4° C |
| Transport temperature |
+ 4° C |
|
| Nutrition facts x 100gr |
| Calories Kcal/KJ |
378/1564 |
| Protein |
g 27,2 |
| Carbohydrate |
g < 0,1 |
| Fat |
g 29,5 |
| Calcium |
mg 1014 |
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