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 Pecorini
Product
Black peppercorn Pecorino Calcagno
Production area
Province of Trapani
Typology
Semi-cooked, hard paste cheese
Ingredients
Pasteurized sheep’s milk, salt, rennet, milk enzymes, black peppercorn
Shape
Cylindrical basket
Flavour
Mildly spicy, aromatic .
Paste
White in colour tending towards light straw colouring, close-textured, sometimes with some small eye formation .
