Inspired from Italy, Curio Bay™ Pecorino from New Zealand has its own distinctive style. Produced from 100% sheep's milk - exclusively from their own farms - this cheese is matured for at least 5-7 months on white pine wood shelving sourced from New Zealand's West Coast forest. It is then turned and washed by hand numerous times as it ages. Its natural rind slowly develops over this time and allows the cheese to develop a rich, grainy texture.

Curio Bay™ Pecorino is less salty than Pecorino Romano with a flavor that is rich and savory, and finishes on a very clean note. The straw yellow color signifies that their sheep are exclusively grass fed. Excellent paired with barrel fermented Chardonnay or a full-bodied Pinot Noir.

Winner of New Zealand Specialty Cheesemakers' 2009 Champion Sheep Cheese award.

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The Blue River Dairy was founded by a group of sheep farmers and decided to embrace the ancient Mediterranean farming practice of sheep milking and one of the New Zealand's first sheep's milk cheese factories was born. Originally located along the fertile banks of the Clutha River on the southern coast of New Zealand's South Island, the Blue River Dairy factory is now located to Invercargill in neighboring Southland. The success of the company is closely linked to the right farming land of the southern river valleys and the rolling pastures on which the sheep happily graze and provide the rich, sweet milk that creates the dairy products.