This Thursday, April 7, 2022, the advance ticket sales period for the XI Pinolere Cheese Fairwhich is celebrated on April 9 and 10 In this neighborhood in the middle of La Orotava. The promotion launched to encourage purchase has allowed the sale of more than a thousand tickets and the distribution of more than 500 wedges of cheese of 300 grams from one of the three cheese factories in the municipality: Benijos, Antonio and Juana or Pinolere.
The Pinolere Cultural Association has been very satisfied with the reception of this initiative and they hope to have a significant influx of public this weekend at the fairgrounds and ethnographic park of pinolere. After the break forced by the pandemic of Covid-19 In 2020 and 2021, some 60 dairies from the islands will show and sell their production at this unavoidable event with the cheese and livestock sector.
The day of April 9 will begin with the exhibition of the native Canarian breeds (seven breeds of dogs, goats, chickens, sheep, cows, black pigs, donkeys, bees or birds) and the opening ceremony and tribute to Juan Francisco Capote Alvarezbiologist, doctor of Veterinary Medicine and member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of the Canary Islands. At noon the winners of the IX Insular Contest of Cheeses of Tenerifewhich will be held this Friday, April 8, at the Casa del Vino de The Sauzal. Throughout the first day of the fair there will be activities such as traditional goat milking workshops for children (12:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.), the third Garafiano Shepherd Dog Encounter (12:30 p.m.); a tasting of transhumance cheeses from the Canary Islands commented by the cheese master Isidoro Jiménez (1:00 p.m.); the fifth meeting of the Herreño wolf (4:30 p.m.); a tasting of the award-winning cheeses, commented by the Association of Artisan Cheese Producers of Tenerife (5:00 p.m.); a tribute to the young rancher and goatherd from Tenerife Alba Perez Alonso (5:30 p.m.), and a children’s tasting of Canarian cheeses (5:45 p.m.).
Sunday is celebrated IX Monographic Presa Canario Contestand throughout the day you can enjoy a tasting of award-winning cheeses, with the Association of Artisan Cheese Producers of Tenerife (11:30 a.m.) and a sensory workshop on cheese, honey and wine tasting by Bi-Dueño (12:15 p.m.). In addition, for the little ones there will be goat milking workshops (11:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.) and a tasting (12:00 p.m.).
