A company in Málaga makes the best cured goat cheese in the world.

"Best Spanish Cheese of the Competition." That is how the International Lyon Competition rated the cured goat cheese made by the Antequera brand El Pastor del Torcal. It not only won the gold medal but also the title proclaiming it the best in the world in the goat cheese category among nearly 2,000 samples tasted at this event, which also awards the best wines, beers, cold cuts, and sausages from around the world.

Professional tasters and experienced enthusiasts evaluated a total of 2,531 samples, including 1,981 cheeses and dairy products and 550 cold cuts and sausages, awarding 841 gold and silver medals. Among them, the one from El Pastor del Torcal, which once again captivated the judges of the competition after also winning gold medals in the last two years. It proves once more that its products are unrivaled.

This time, it did so with Flor del Torcal, a cured goat cheese, refined with honey and flower petals. According to the brand itself, "rose petals, orange blossom, lavender, calendula, and jasmine, among others, give this cheese an aroma and flavor in its rind that is thrilling, as it evokes our mountain fields. It provokes a sensory stimulation in the mouth and sight, due to its flavor and presentation." Price? Between 107 and 30 euros (3 kilograms or a quarter).

Quesos El Pastor del Torcal began its journey at the end of 2021, as a value-added venture by Serrycamp, a company that has been producing and marketing Andalusian goat milk for over ten years. Affiliated with Sabor a Málaga, they have a facility of more than 1,500 square meters in the Antequera Industrial Estate for the maturation and production of their cheeses, with a manufacturing capacity of up to five million liters of goat milk from their more than 70 farms spread across various provinces of Andalusia.

The International Competition of wines, beers, and spirits takes place every year in Lyon, considered the capital of French gastronomy. Along with the support of renowned partners such as Les Toques Blanches Lyonnaises, the Association of Sommeliers of Lyon and the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, and the city of Lyon, Only Lyon, the competition tastes thousands of products from various countries and rewards the best wines, beers, and spirits in the world, as well as the best cheeses, dairy products, cold cuts, and sausages from across the globe.