SPAIN — A Spanish restaurant owner set a new Guinness World Record for most expensive cheese sold at auction by purchasing 5.78 pounds of artisan blue cheese for $16,142.41.

The cheese he purchased is Cabrales cheese, one of the strongest, most recognized blue cheeses in the world, which spends roughly between three to six months in the caves with shepherds rubbing and turning the cheese to help along the maturating process.

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