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Show Notes
https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/lifestyle/worlds-most-expensive-cheese-sells-for-over-42k-at-auction/
luxurylaunches.com/gastronomy/worlds-most-expensive-cheese-07102025.php
https://delivisor.com/blog/what-are-the-5-most-expensive-cheeses-in-the-world/
This Week in Cheese
Episode Transcript
Just Cheesy, the podcastpresented by Just Cheesy Productions.
It's fondue here your hostwith the most with another episode
of Cheese Bites.
I'm Cheesy.
We're gonna talk about acheese this week that costs more
than a Rolex. We're gonnalearn about the world's most expensive
cheeses, and we're gonna findout about a Mac and cheese lip balm.
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And of course, no episodewould be complete without a very
cheesy joke.
I love joke.
Stay tuned to our Summerseries Cheese bites
Episode pricey
GuinnessWorldRecords.comreports a very, very expensive cheese
that was sold at auction this week.
Really?
The regulatory council, DOPCabrales is no stranger to expensive
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cheese. They say, and this istheir third time claiming the title.
In 2018, their pricey cheesesold for $2874.
Holy cow.
Not to be outdone, they did itagain in 2019 for 22,000 dol.
Holy cow.
Oh, yeah. It blew it out ofthe water.
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They did.
This competition is in its52nd year.
Wow.
The Angel Diaz Herrero cheese factory.
Is that how you say it?
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Took first place in anauction. Nine different catering
establishments from all overSpain took part in a bidding war.
The Auction started at €3,000,and a total of 40 bids were placed.
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Ivan Suarez owns. I'm going tobutcher it. I'm sorry. El Legard
de Chayoto. Before I tell youhow much, this article says that
they want to put this kind ofcash into context. You could buy
yourself a Rolex watch or abrand new Mini Cooper.
Mini Cooper?
The car.
Yeah.
And again, before I tell youhow much the cheese weighed, approximately
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2.3 kilograms.
That's it.
That's five pounds.
That's all?
And it was made with cow'smilk. It was aged for 10 months in
the Los Mezos cave, almost1500 meters above sea level. Luxurylaunches.com
tells us this was auctionedfor how much?
How much?
A whopping.
How much?
$42,232.
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Holy cow.
And this comes out to roughly$8,400 a pound for the five pound
wheel of cheese.
No way.
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The Angel Diaz Herrero cheesefactory is not a sponsor, but if
they were, their ad wouldabsolutely go here. Now, normally,
we would talk a little bitabout some of the world's most expensive
cheeses.
Yeah.
According to Delivizor.comthey've listed a handful. Okay, we
start at Rogue River Blue Cheese.
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Okay.
This cheese is aged at leastone Year. And they say here a lot
of the reasons that there areprice differences in these cheeses
has to do with a couple ofdifferent things.
Okay.
One, obviously, the aging period.
Oh, sure.
It's ages longer. A lot oftimes that makes for a more expensive
cheese. The productionprocess, if it's very complex or
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labor intensive, it makes thecheese production more costly, and
this affects the final price.
Makes sense.
The cheese Bito storico goesfor $150 a pound, and it's aged for
10 years.
10 years.
Wyke Farm cheddar is mixedwith white truffle and gold leaf.
What?
And it goes for $200 a pound.
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Oh, my.
Likewise, white Stilton goldhas edible gold leaf in it as well.
And it goes for $450 a pound.
No way.
There's another reason whycheese would be very expensive, and
it can be from the type ofmilk. One of the rarest cheeses in
the world comes from moose milk.
Moose.
It takes a lot to milk amoose, and each moose only gives
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a little bit of milk everyday. And this process only goes on
from May to September. So themilking season is very short. It's
very rare. There are very fewproducers like the Johansson family
in Swed, and it only yieldsabout 500 pounds a year. All of this
complexity makes the cost perpound about $455.
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Wow.
But the most expensive milk inthe world is made from donkey milk.
It's called Pule cheese. Theysay here it takes about a little
over six gallons of donkeymilk for two pounds of cheese. These
donkeys are kept in a specialnature reserve in Serbia. Donkey
milk is extracted entirely byhand. There are no machines available
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for this process. And thehistory of this cheese is pretty
interesting. It started backin 1997.
Really?
According to foodandwine.comSlobodan Simik began rescuing mistreated
Balkan donkeys from farms, andhe placed them in a nature reserve.
And there are now around 300donkeys on the farm. He began making
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products with donkey milk,everything from soap to moisturizer.
Oh, yeah.
It has long been revered inthe Balkans as an apparent health
benefit. It's believed to bean immune booster as well as good
for the skin. They even saythat the famous Cleopatra took daily
baths and donkey milk. Theysay Hippocrates supposedly drank
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it to ease his arthritis. Theyused to milk the donkeys, and they'd
end up with extra milk. And hethought, why not make cheese with
it?
Why not?
They say it isn't the flavorthat makes it expensive. But the
low yield of milk, you can'tget it anywhere else. You can only
get it from the farm itself.It's time for my favorite segment
this week in cheese. Guesswhat holiday is coming up on Monday.
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Mac and Cheese Day.
That's right. National Mac andCheese Day. And of course, there's
always some sort ofcelebration going on. According to
WWD.com there is an exclusivepartnership between Panera, who has
a Mac and cheese bread bowl,and they've partnered with somebody
called Holler and Glow to makea Mac and cheese bread bowl. Scented
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lip balm.
What?
That's right. They've mades'mac and cheese. Oh, it's lip balm.
Ew.
Made to taste like Mac and cheese.
Why?
If you're interested and youdecide to try it, let us know. We've
got a link in our show notesto our Amazon page where you can
get this exclusive offer.
I'm ready for a joke fondue.
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Okay. Why did blue cheese sayit wanted to age in the cave a little
longer?
Ooh, I don't know why
it said.
Time is money and it can beworth whey more. Get it.
Did AI write that?
I wrote that one. It can beway more like whey. Like cheese is
made from whey.
No whey. It was dumb.
Oh, it was dumb and a littlebit cheesy. Thanks for listening
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to our summer series, CheeseBites. Bites. We're glad you're here
with us this summer to talk alittle bit about cheese.
Oh, yeah.
Make sure to share with uswhat you decide to eat on Mac and
Cheese day. We know it'll be awesome.
And stay cheesy everybody.
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