Choose Lesbos Feta for a sheep’s-milk addition to a tomato salad, mezze plate, or bread-and-olive spread.
Why choose it
- Made exclusively from sheep’s milk.
- Pasteurized milk.
- From the Greek island of Lesbos; selected by Essex Street Cheese.
What do I receive? Quarter pound (4 oz).
Suggested Pairing: Baguette Today.
Product details & serving guidance
Available in quarter-pound increments.
Feta is an ancient cheese. In Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses found feta in the cave of Polyphemos the Cyclops. Feta is also a much maligned cheese, copied everywhere, made with more care for the bottom line than for flavor. Until recently anyone could call their cheese feta and the country that made the most feta in the world was Germany. Now there are only a few locations that can make the real thing and the island of Lesbos is one of them. Essex feta is made exclusively from the milk of Lesbian breed sheep, whose shepherds retain a millenia old practice of grazing them on the sun-and-sea splashed hills on the hiss around the village of Agra, on the western side of the island.
Pasteurized Sheeps Milk
Storage: Keep refrigerated and follow the package instructions. Contains milk. Check the package for complete ingredients and allergens.
Arlington pickup: Order online for pickup at 4508 Cherry Hill Rd, Arlington, VA 22207. Need help choosing? Call 703-525-0990.
Buy 6 bottles of regularly priced (not on sale) wines and receive 5% off.
Buy 12 and receive 10% off.
Email sale wines do not combine nor count towards the above discount.
