What makes the world's most expensive cheese, priced at nearly 800 million VND?

According to NDTV, a blue cheese from Northern Spain recently broke the record for the most expensive cheese in the world when it was auctioned in the town of Las Arenas de Cabrales in Asturias, Spain.

A 2.2kg piece of Cabrales blue cheese was sold for 30,000 euros.

Previously, the cheese made at a Los Puertos cheese factory in Poo de Cabrales was chosen by the judges as the best cheese among the 15 producers that entered the competition.

"We know we have a good cheese, but to win is very difficult," Guillermo Pendas, the boss of a cheese factory, told Spain's state news agency EFE.

Rosa Vada, owner of the Los Puertos factory and also Guillermo Pendas' mother, said the cheese was stored for at least eight months in a cave at an altitude of 1,400 metres with a temperature of around 7 degrees Celsius.

The cheese was sold to Iván Suárez, owner of the El Llagar de Colloto restaurant in Asturias.

Cabrales cheese is aged in limestone caves at an altitude of 1,400 meters.

Iván Suárez has been outbidding everyone for the best Cabrales cheeses in recent years. In 2018, the restaurateur paid €14,300 for the winning cheese in the competition, and a year later, he paid €20,500 for the best cheese. At the end of August this year, Iván Suárez once again paid an insane amount for a Cabrales blue cheese to set a new record.

Cabrales cheese is "a semi-hard, very rich-tasting blue cheese" handcrafted by farmers in Asturias, Spain.

People used horses to carry cheese up to the limestone cave.

This cheese is typically made from raw cow's milk, which can be mixed with goat's or sheep's milk. It is then aged for eight to 10 months in natural limestone caves around the Picos de Europa National Park. And the climate here (including temperature and humidity) creates the perfect conditions for a strain of penicillium fungus to grow. It penetrates the center of the cheese wheel as it ages, creating its characteristic blue veins and a pungent flavor that not everyone can tolerate.

This is also one of the most smelly blue cheeses in the world, but it has the most nutritional value and is the most expensive, as well as being recognized for its value worldwide.

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