Curado Vega de San Martín is an aged goat’s milk cheese produced by Spanish cheesemaker Vega de San Martín, made from pasteurized goat’s milk in a pressed-paste style. It is characterized by a firm, compact texture and an ivory-colored interior, reflecting its longer maturation period and more concentrated flavor profile.
The aroma is expressive, with prominent notes of cereals and nuts, while the palate is structured, balanced, and refined. As a typical curado-style cheese, it offers greater intensity and complexity than younger semicurado varieties, with lower moisture content and deeper flavor development.
Despite being made from goat’s milk, its profile is not overly pungent or aggressively animalic, but rather clean and well-rounded with subtle mature nuances. Its firm structure makes it well suited for cheese boards, pairing well with dried fruits, almonds, rustic bread, and fuller-bodied white wines or lighter red wines.
It represents a strong example of modern Spanish aged goat cheese that combines artisanal production with carefully controlled maturation.
Producer
Vega de San Martín is an artisanal cheesemaker based in San Martín de la Vega, in the Madrid region of Spain, located near the Jarama River approximately 30 kilometers from Madrid. The producer specializes in goat’s milk cheeses made exclusively from milk sourced from its own Murciano-Granadina goat herd.
In addition to livestock farming, the company manages its own agricultural production across farms in the Madrid and Cuenca areas, where it cultivates cereals, legumes, alfalfa, and pasture crops that form the basis of the animals’ diet. Its production philosophy combines modern cheesemaking technology with traditional craftsmanship.
The range includes fresh, semi-cured, and aged cheeses, as well as pressed-paste varieties made from either pasteurized or raw goat’s milk. Vega de San Martín cheeses are recognized for their clean dairy character and nuanced flavor profile, with notes of grains, nuts, and ripe olives becoming more pronounced in the more mature expressions.