Spain: Manchego cheese reached 17.1 million kilos sold in 2022

Manchego cheese, one of the most iconic products of the agri-food industry in the region, has reached 17.1 million kilos sold this year, the highest figure in its history. This was highlighted by the Deputy Minister of Institutional Relations, Margarita Sánchez, during the closing of the XXIV Conference of the Brotherhood of Manchego Cheese, held in Toledo, in which he claimed that Castilla-La Mancha "has managed to maintain the virtue and essence of the Manchego sheep and, from it, the artisan tradition of a unique cheese". Sánchez underlined that this sales figure coincides with the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Denomination of Origin Queso Manchego, which was "the first of the battles for this autonomy because in those times, in In almost all of Spain, cheeses were labeled as Manchego and it did not matter if they were made from sheep, goat, cow or a mixture, it was enough that they were round for them to be called Manchego." Four decades later, "two waxy parts of the ...