by Although cheese is concentrated milk, has a high nutritional value, but in general, the price of cheese is relatively close to the people.
However, these are just common types of cheese, for those who are the best cheese, the situation is completely different.
Let’s take a look at some of the world’s most expensive cheeses.
10.ROUGE RIVER BLUE
Price: 98 USD/kg
Origin: USA
This is a Rogue River Blue from the United States.
At the 2019 World Cheese Awards held in Bergamo, Italy, it won the Grand Prize, beating famous rivals such as Stilton.
This isn’t the first time the Rogue River Blue has won awards since 2003.
This cheese has been so successful that it has been dubbed “the best cheese in the world” by the media many times!
Rogue River Blue is only produced in the fall, when the cows produce the best quality milk and are therefore the best for making this exquisite cheese
9.CACIO BUFALA
Price: 100 USD/kg
Origin: Italy
Cacio bufala symbolizes the latest development in Mediterranean cheese.
The cheese is made from pasteurized buffalo milk at the Casa Madaio dairy farm in Campania, Italy.
In terms of the production process, the cheese is required to mature for eight to 12 months in natural caves near Casa Madaio, and finally takes on an ivory yellow skin.
8.JERSEY BLUE
Price: 100 USD/kg
Origin: Switzerland
From the appearance of this dome-shaped cheese, you can understand that Jersey Blue is made in a very special way.
The cheese adheres to the high quality milk sourced locally in Switzerland and is fermented in a wine cellar. This persistence has resulted in the best cheese in Switzerland.
The fermentation in the cellar gives this cheese a slightly musty smell on the outside, but, in sharp contrast, the intense aroma is immediately felt once you cut it.
07.GERMAIN EPOISSES
Price: 100 USD/kg
Origin: France
This cheese may be one of the stinkiest cheeses on the planet, but it’s also one of the most famous.
Don’t let the smell fool you: it’s delicious inside the yellow skin, and it’s delicious and rich.
This special Washed Rind Cheese is washed repeatedly with Marc de Bourgogne, a French brandy made from nearby vineyards.
This gives the cheese a strong creamy and fruity aroma inside at the same time, which stimulates the taste buds.
6.OLD FORD
Price: $110 / kg
Origin: United Kingdom
This aged hard cheese from England is hand-pressed using only fresh local goat milk.
It takes about eight months for this cheese to reach its best taste.
Sadly, the cheese’s producer, Mary Holbrook of Sleight Farm in the UK, passed away in 2019.
5.CACIOCAVALLO PODOLICO
Price: 120 USD/kg
Origin: Italy
Caciocavallo is a kind of gourd shaped cheese. This cheese has a long history, dating back to the ancient Greeks.Podolico is a rare species found in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy.
The process of making CACIOCAVALLO PODOLICO is very interesting. Every year from June to November, cattlemen drive their cattle to pasture in the mountains and make cheese as they go.
Cattlemen would ripen the cheese by tying it with string and hanging it from a shelf in a mountain hut. Then, at the end of November, they would hang the cheese in their saddles and follow the cattle back to their pasture on the plains.
During this time, Podolico will eat a variety of mountain plants, such as blueberries, rosehips, hawthorns, wild strawberries, and more, which we will taste in cheese.
The golden skin of CACIOCAVALLO PODOLICO is very smooth, but becomes rough and dull with age, and the taste becomes more complex and intense. When ripe, this cheese has intense fruit and lactic flavor, but also contains smoke, various herbs and different plant flavors.
4.EXTRA OLD BITTO
Price: 350 USD/kg
Origin: Italy
Old Bitto was founded in 1997 and had been aged for 10 years before being sold.
In fact, this Bitto cheese with an extra age is now the oldest cheese in the world – 21 years!
This small cheese, made in Italy and bought by a Hong Kong importer for the Chinese market, has a salty, buttery flavor that we infer is strong but not spicy, based on Bitto’s characteristics.
3.WYKE FARMS VINTAGE CHEDDAR
Price: 450 USD/kg
Origin: United Kingdom
Vintage Cheddar is the UK’s largest independent cheese and butter manufacturer with over 150 years of history.
By adding white truffles and gold leaf to the classic Cheddar cheese, Vintage Cheddar has managed to raise the price of this cheese.
Thanks to its adherence to traditional techniques, this luxurious cheddar cheese has also become a work of art with a long and delicious history.
2.WHITE STILTON GOLD
Price: 1000 USD/kg
Origin: United Kingdom
STILTON GOLD is a variety of English cheese, it is divided into blue grain and white two types.
The difference between the two is whether penicillium is added to the production process.
Blue Stilton sheesh is one of the top three blue cheese varieties in the world. White Stilton cheese is often used with different fruits to make delicious dessert cheese.
The pricey $1,000-a-kilogram variety is made from White Stilton cheese with edible gold leaf and cinnamon wine that creates golden spots.
This cheese is a holiday limited edition product and will only be available during the Christmas season!
1.PULE OR SERBIAN DONKEY CHEESE
Price: 1100 USD/kg
Origin: Serbia
This cheese is expensive not because of the addition of gold leaf, but because the ingredients are so scarce.
Pule donkey cheese is made from the milk of a Balkan donkey that is endangered and in need of protection.
The fact that donkeys are not very good at producing milk (300 milliliters per day), coupled with the fact that there are only about 100 of them, makes raw materials more difficult to obtain.
What’s more interesting is that because the protein content of donkey milk is not enough, it is difficult to curdle, so the cheese is actually made of 60% Balkan donkey milk and 40% goat milk.
In fact, most of the expensive cheese is not really for the consumer market, but more as a status symbol.
So, if you want to taste good cheese, it is not necessarily the more expensive the better.
