Quintal do Glória

Renato on the dairy porch, with a cut wheel of cheese

A day up here

The backyard,from inside

Photographs taken by us, in the middle of the work. This is how it is.

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Gallery

From daybreak in the yard to afternoon coffee

No studio pictures: it is the day as it happens, from the dark of the milking to the table laid. Click to see it large.

Nilseia and Renato holding a wheel of cheese in the late afternoon — 01Late afternoon, with Glória down below

Three aged cheeses on a wooden bench at the farm gate — 02The gate of the house

A fresh cheese being unmoulded in the dairy — 03Inside the dairy, at six in the morning

A wall of certificates and awards with the dairy crest — 04The wall we have not finished filling

Breakfast table on the porch with cheese and coffee — 05Half past seven breakfast

Jersey cows at the trough — 06The girls at feeding time

A cut Canastra cheese showing the paste — 07The cut that tells everything

The cattle yard in the morning seen from inside the shed — 08Before the sun

Renato on the dairy porch — 09Renato, who built all of this with his own hands

Long board of cold cuts with sliced cheese, strawberries, grapes and jam on a green leaf, between glasses and plates — 10A board to share

Three white-rind cheeses on a round wooden board, with dried red flowers and a green cloth beside them — 11Bloomy rind on the board

Three white-rind cheese wheels stacked on a thick wooden board, in front of a pale wall — 12Three wheels, stacked

Sunset behind a wooden arch, with a pond ringed by stones and flowering plants in the foreground — 13Late afternoon at the entrance

Long wooden table in a covered hall, with framed certificates and the dairy sign on the wall — 14The long table in the hall

View from the wooden veranda over the garden, with flowering plants, stones and a ceramic pot behind — 15The garden from the veranda

Yellowish-rind cheese wheels on a rustic wooden board, on a white marble counter in a bright kitchen — 16Wheels on a rustic board

Cheese cut into slices on a wooden board, with a white box from the dairy in the background — 17Cut cheese and the house box

Three cheese wedges, two with pale rind and one yellowish, on a black plate over a woven red cloth — 18Wedges on a black plate

Round board with several kinds of cheese cut into slices and cubes, with the dairy sign behind it — 19Many cheeses, one board

Wooden gate over the dirt road between fences, with two cheese wheels on a stump in the foreground — 20The gate and the cheeses

Wooden fence with the dairy sign, a palm tree behind and aged cheese wheels in the foreground — 21Sign and cheeses at the entrance

White round moulds filled with fresh cheese curd on a steel counter, with curd grains on the surface — 22Moulds on the counter

A hand holds a white ladle over the milk in a stainless-steel vat, its surface still smooth — 23Milk in the vat

Hands stir the curd in the steel vat, with white pieces floating in the yellowish whey — 24Stirring the curd

Curd broken into small grains inside the stainless-steel vat, its surface bright and wet — 25Curd in small grains

Curd cut into regular cubes inside the stainless-steel vat, with a white paddle beside it — 26Curd in cubes

Smooth white curdled milk in the steel vat seen from above, before the curd is cut — 27Curd before cutting

A hand with a white paddle stirs the curd in the steel vat, white curd grains all around — 28Stirring the curd by hand

Milking parlour aisle with blue rails and a concrete floor, under a metal roof and wooden beams — 29The milking parlour

Whole and cut cheeses on a wooden board, with a black-handled knife and dairy boxes behind — 30Knife and cheese on the board

A cup of black coffee on a green saucer with the name Quintal do Glória, on a wooden table — 31Coffee on the house saucer

A whole pale-rind cheese on a wooden table, with other wheels behind it in the ageing room — 32A whole wheel on the table

A wedge of yellow cheese and thin slices on a wooden board, resting on a colourful cloth — 33Thin slices on the board

Wooden board with cuts of different cheeses, an orange flower and a small bowl of dark sauce — 34A board of mixed cuts

Long table set with plates, glasses, white napkins and cushions on the benches, with no one seated yet — 35The table, set

Tray of cheeses with small jars of jam and a bottle, on the wooden table set with plates and glasses — 36Cheese and its companions

Rectangular tray of cheese slices and small pots of preserves on the long table set with plates and glasses — 37A tray of cheeses

A group of people at a long table with cheeses and glasses, toasting and smiling in a hall with a fridge behind — 38Group tasting

A group of visitors posing in front of the wall of certificates and the dairy sign — 39Visitors at the dairy

Visitors seated at a long table with glasses and plates while a person in white speaks at the far end — 40A guided visit at the table

Valley and hills seen from the suite veranda, with the wooden eaves in the corner of the frame — 41

Valley and hills seen from the suite veranda, with the wooden eaves in the corner of the frame — 42

Suite bedroom with a double bed and a single bed, terracotta bedspreads, folded towels and a red wall in warm light — 43Double and single, ready

Winter garden of the bathroom at night, with potted plants lit by wall lamps on the stone wall — 44The bathroom garden at night

Suite bathroom with an arch, burnished cement, a wooden counter with a white basin and a glass door to the garden — 45The bathroom arch

View from the porch of a suite on a cloudy day: green pasture, the town in the distance and the hills on the horizon — 46The view from the porch

The glass shower door in the Suite 3 bathroom, with the terracotta tile wall behind it — 47The shower door

A white basin on a raw wooden counter, with a brass tap and a polished cement wall — 48The basin on raw wood

A wide shower head on the polished cement wall, seen from below — 49The shower, from below

The Suite 3 bathroom with a basin on a wooden counter, a brass tap and terracotta tile floor — 50Tile on the floor, cement on the wall

Detail of the wooden frame between the cement wall and the shower glass — 51The frame between wall and glass

Brass fittings on the cement wall, next to the terracotta tiled shower — 52The brass fittings

Come to the backyard

Better stillis seeing it close

No photograph handles the smell of the ageing room or the valley at six in the morning. Come and see.

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