Cortes de Muar opens the Mercado de Cosecha Pop Up Store

Mimosa, Marquesa, Madalena, Marela, Morena…are the Queens of  Cortes de Muar (Moo Courts), the traditional cheese-makers from Silleda (Pontevedra) which will be the protagonist this week at the Mercado de la Cosecha (Harvest Market) pop up store. A temporary store concept remaining open only until the beginning of October, which will serve to spread and promote exemplary initiatives stemming from the countryside, transmitting their philosophy and most authentic flavour to the citizens.

Las Cortes de Muar (The Moo Courts) are those governed by its cows Marela, Morena, Marquesa and Mimosa, among others. In these royal courts, they moo about their stuff when they are collected at dusk after a quiet day grazing in the fresh, green pastures.  This is how this cheese-making family presents those responsible for their products: their cows. It’s from them that the milk is taken to make limited production ecologic cheeses under the name of Cortes de Muar. The cows are also the protagonists of the original and fun packaging for the products produced by this modern cheese-maker that has successfully blended tradition and modernity.

Cortes de Muar this week opens the Mercado de la Cosecha (Harvest Market) shop. The pop up store is located in Calle Riego de Agua (number 38) in A Coruña and all those interested can visit during the next three months and have a first-hand experience of some of the most innovative initiatives from the countryside.

Every week will feature a different protagonist, an exemplary experience, an innovative project, workshops and activities open to the public, tastings of Galician products….. Every week there will be surprises for all, so that by the end of the summer both Coruña citizens and visitors will have fallen under the spell of the possibilities that our countryside offers.

This week among Cortes de Muar’s proposal there will be a number of tastings of its products (Tuppercheese), an activity during which one can learn to create cheese platters, and many more surprises. The programme kicks off tomorrow, Tuesday, with the cutting and tasting of the cheese awarded a prize at the World Cheese Awards, starting at 12.30pm.

Programme Week 1. Cortes de Muar (22 to 27 July)

Tuesday

12:30. Cutting of the cheese made with the formula awarded a prize at the World Cheese Awards 2014

8:30pm. Guided Cheese Tasting, Tuppercheese

Wednesday

12:30. Key concepts to become an expert cheese taster

8:30pm. Guided Cheese Tasting, Tuppercheese

Thursday

12:30 Guided Cheese Tasting, Tuppercheese

8:30pm. How to create a Cheese platter for friends.

Three months of activities

With the opening of its pop up store, the Mercado de la Cosecha (Harvest Market) takes a further step in its commitment to supporting the development and sustainability of the Galician countryside.

Throughout the next few months the Mercado de la Cosecha will become a space open to the transmission and exchange of ideas, and will see from Cortes de Muar cheese, Buxaina traditional games, Daveiga biscuits, Pazo de Vilane free-range eggs, Olei oil, Arqueixal yoghurts, Ecocelta earthworm compost, Idoia Cuesta baskets, Granxa Maruxa biscuits, to the apples from which Maeloc cider is made and the grapes used forour Ponte da Boga wines.

The Mercado de la Cosecha is a social commitment initiative shared by Hijos de Rivera, RandGadis. Its main objective is to promote the socioeconomic development of Galicia and the sustainability of its rural areas. In order to do so, it carries out a number of different initiatives to spread and promote these ideas, such as the Parladoiros, of which a second edition has already been held, or the just-opened pop-up store which we intend to take to other cities in the short-term.  

Calendar of initiatives: