Ojos del Guadiana. The cheese that keeps the traditional taste.

Our Business

The beginning.

The Manchego Shepherds Cooperative 'Ojos del Guadiana' was born in Daimiel in 1998, as the result of a previous Food & Agricultural Research that recommended to promote the manchega ewe extensive breeding and the manufacturing of manchego cheese in the zone.

A number of shepherds that were fed up with the abuse of local milk industries (due to milk rates and milk quality control parameters variances) decided to merge and work together in order to focus on what they did their best, to produce the best milk to achieve the main goal of this business -manufacturing the best manchego cheese.

José Bono while President of Castilla La Mancha, visited our company.

Our sheep graze in the surroundings of 'Las Tablas de Daimiel'

We are very well placed.

• Our sheep graze extensively in the protected surroundings of the Natural Park 'Las Tablas de Daimiel.'

• We are small enough to focus mainly in the manufacturing of artisan manchego cheese, and big enough to fulfil with guarantee our domestic and international demand of cheese.

• We guarantee you the quality of our cheese. In addition of making the manchego cheese, we produce the raw material (milk) we use in manufacturing the cheese. We control the quality of our product from the sheep care and feeding to its final presentation, by always carrying out the Denomination of Origin Regulating Council restricted regulations.

• Only the cheese manufacturing process is artisan. The remaining processes we achieve have the more up to date technology. We are able to satisfy our customers' tastes and needs.

Our prizes talk.

Regardless this short time in business (end of 1998), we already have enough prizes in the showcase to know we are in the good way to reach our goals.

. 3 silver medals in the Manchego Cheese Regional Contest, artisan cheese category, FERCAM (2001, 2003 y 2004).

. First place in the Manchego Cheese Regional Contest, artisan mid-aged cheese category, EXPOVICAMAN (2002)

. Special Mention in the Food Prizes, artisan manchego cheese category, SALIMAT 2002.

. Consolation Prize in the 2001 Best Spanish Cheeses Contest, artisan sheep cheese category, awarded by the Agriculture, Fish and Food Ministry.

. '2001 Best Spanish Food Enterprise' Consolation Prize, Rural development category, awarded by the Agriculture, Fish and Food Ministry.

. First place in the Manchego Cheese Regional Contest, artisan long-aged cheese category, Gran Selección (2006)

Our prizes talk