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A smelly slab of green cheese sold for $42,232, earning the Guinness World Record for most expensive cheese sold at auction.
The pricey 5-pound chunk of Cabrales, a Spanish blue cheese, was aged in a cave for 10 months by the Ángel Díaz Herrero cheese factory.
A chunk of the Spanish blue cheese Cabrales took home the Guinness World Record. Guinness World Records
The title-winning cheese was sold by the Regulatory Council DOP Cabrales to restaurant owner Iván Suárez. Guinness World RecordsThe brick of cheese was sold to Iván Suárez, the owner of restaurant El Llagar de Colloto in Asturias, Spain.
Cabrales is made from unpasteurized cow, goat and sheep’s milk and aged in natural limestone caves.
The process gives the cheese a unique spicy and salty flavor, as well as its distinctive greenish-blue hue.
The event started with the 52nd annual “Best Cheese” competition, Mejor Queso del Certamen, where a jury tastes and ranks cheeses made by 15 different factories.
As is tradition, the winning cheese then gets auctioned off to the highest bidder.
