Our trick to get a cream cheese without bitter tastes
Rennet from thistle is 100% vegetable origin, comes from a thistle and allows a very famous cheese in Spain.
This vegetable rennet or coagulant is derived from the flower of the wild thistle (Cynara cardunculus), a plant that grows naturally in many different areas of the peninsula and the Canary Islands, as in large parts of Africa and the Middle East.
Gateway cheese
After mounting Poncelet, one of the best cheese shops in Spain, his mentor and ideologue, Jesus Pombo gave way to new projects. He organized a first exemplary maturation cellars where cheeses refined until they reach optimum points of evolution. After it opened in Madrid Cheese Bar, a bar of cheeses, where you can taste some of the emblematic pieces of the world. Cheese kept in a heated cellar in view with controlled humidity and temperature, and presents well designed tables with explanations, including its origin, maturity months, milks, sensory characteristics and harmonies with specific wines. Poncelet controls the entire process, from the selection of the pieces in origin to its service.