World’s Most Expensive Cheese Sells for $32K at Auction
August 31, 2023 | 1 min to read
A Spanish Cabrales blue cheese has made history as the most expensive cheese, fetching over $32,000 at a local festival. Produced by Guillermo Pendás at his family factory in Los Puertos, the 4.8-pound wheel was auctioned for €30,000 ($32,408.10) after being matured in the mountain caves of Asturias. Pendás expressed pride in their exceptional cheese, despite the challenges of winning such an accolade.
It cost a lot of cheddar.
Don’t drizzle this on a Ritz Cracker: A Spanish Cabrales blue cheese has broken the record for most expensive cheese ever, after getting auctioned off for over $32,000 at a local cheese festival.
“We knew we had a good cheese but also that it is very difficult to win,” Guillermo Pendás, who manufactured the un-brie-lievably pricey nosh at the family factory in Los Puertos, told Spanish news agency Efe, per the Times of London.
A single 4.8-pound wheel of the semi-hard, pungent dairy product — which is matured in the mountain caves of Asturias in Northern Spain — went under the hammer for €30,000 ($32,408.10), setting a new Guinness World Record.
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