Gourmet Cheese listed Alphabetically starting with S

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Sage Derby
From: $7.18
Sage Derby is a cheddar type gourmet cheese made using leaf sage for flavor, and colored using chlorophyll (plant coloring) to give a green marbled finish. The finely chopped sage leaf gives a subtle extra flavor. Sage Derby is matured for around 12 weeks as per mild cheddar. In the seventeenth century, the custom of adding sage to Derby cheese began. Sage was valued for its health-giving properties; it was good for the digestion and thus Sage Derby was born. Sage Derby was originally consumed at harvest time and Christmas. A colorful gourmet cheese for the cheese board. Sage Derby, one of the oldest British gourmet cheeses and one of the original additive cheeses; is unique with the sage ...
Saint Agur
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The French gourmet cheese Saint Agur originates in the village of Monts du Velay in the mountainous Auvergne region of central France, an area renowned for a centuries old tradition of blue cheese making. This lovely gourmet cheese is made from pasteurized cow's milk enriched with cream; it’s a double-cream cheese. A rich blue cheese with a smooth, creamy texture that provides just the right reason to take and break and enjoy a fine cheese tasting session. Saint Agur is easy to recognize by its unusual octagonal shape. It is rindless and packaged in foil, a common practice that prevents further blueing. We are pleased to have this fine gourmet cheese in our assortment and feel confident th...
Saint Andre
Your Price: $9.81
Saint André is a triple cream French cheese made with cow's milk. This gourmet cheese has a bloomy white rind, that is as soft as velvet when you touch it and the flavor wonderful, all creamy, all soft, all rich with a soft, buttery texture; an intense version of Brie. Extra heavy cream is added to the cheese during the production. A wheel of Saint André is smaller and higher than a traditional wheel of Brie. Cheese that may come close are Boursault or Brillat-Savarin. ...
Saint Felicien
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Saint Félicien is a French gourmet cheese that was made around 1950. It was originally made by a cheese maker in Lyon, and is now primarily made in the Dauphiné region of France. It is made of cow's milk, is very rich, but as it is small, it is easy to eat. It is a semi-soft cheese that has a maturing time between 2 and 6 weeks. Many people say that the St. Félicien cheese tastes similar to St. Marcellin, but slightly less strong, and tastes slightly nutty. Saint Félicien cheese is a perfect end-of-the-meal cheese, and is generally served as part of a cheeseboard selection....
Saint Marcellin
Your price: $14.32
Nowadays, Saint Marcellin is made from cow's milk. But in the 13th century the cheese was made exclusively from goat's milk. Saint Marcellin is coming from the Dauphiné region, east of Lyon. Saint Marcellin is gourmet cheese that is generously salted on both faces. The cheese needs a long time to mature. Although quite similar to Banon - without the chestnut leaves - Saint Marcellin is even creamier. The nutty and fruity flavor is complex. This gourmet cheese can be served as a quick lunch, as a starter or on the cheeseboard. Saint Marcellin should be chewed a long time to release its full flavor. This gourmet cheese is produced in a ceramic crock, containing 3 ounces. We sell them in pair...
Saint Nectaire
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Saint Nectaire is an ancient French gourmet cheese from the mountains of the Auvergne. The raw milk cheese is made with the milk of mostly Salers cows. The cheese is made in large round flat discs. It has a grayish rind with light yellow or reddish patches. The supple paste is pale gold in color and becomes almost runny as it matures. It has a really earthy aroma. The paste alone has a sweet and grassy aroma and this is repeated in the flavor which is only slightly farmyard like. The cheese is firm, though supple, with a moldy smell and a mild flavor. We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
Saint Vernier
Your Price: $19.49
Saint Vernier a soft washed-rind cheese that is made in the Haute Jura region of France. The rind is washed with a local wine 'Affiné au vin de Savagnin (Jura)' that gives the cheese its stickiness and a distinctive, delicate sherry-like flavor and it helps balancing the rich, creamy pate of the interior. This cheese has an aroma as one of the Normandy washed rind cheeses, e.g. Pont L'Évêque, but it is not as strong. Because the cheese is very small, we sell it in pairs, offering you a total of 6.7 ounces of gourmet cheese....
Salers
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The French gourmet cheese Salers is often compared to and confused with another gourmet cheese Cantal. Salers is made only from the milk of cows that graze on mountain pastures in the summer while Cantal can be made from the milk of other seasons. Salers real French appellation is "Salers from the high mountains." In the Salers region, mountains are covered with snow half the year, which gives the summer grasses a special richness. Gentian and blueberry grow here amongst the lush pastures. Salers is a strong French gourmet cheese that can be matured up to 18 months. Salers cheese crust is thick and has a grey color. Its paste is firm, yellow, relatively hard and has a fruity aroma. With a ...
Samsoe
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Samsoe started as a Danish version of Swiss Emmental but today it has developed a totally different character of its own. Once a farmhouse cheese, Samsoe and its many descendants are now factory produced, but can still be considered a gourmet cheese. Made in round flat cartwheels and in large slabs, Samsoe has a golden-yellow dry rind which is usually coated in yellow cheese wax. Softer than Emmental, it has a texture which can be flabby but which at its best is more akin to Cheddar. The paste is pale yellow in color with a few shiny holes about the size of cherries. The flavor is quite mild and nutty in the young cheese, but this strengthens and takes on a slightly more pungent quality as...
San Andreas
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San Andreas is an artisanal raw sheep milk farmstead cheese from Bellwether Farms in Sonoma County, California. It is a great American version of the Italian Pecorino. The flavor is smooth, creamy, and mild with a refreshingly sour finish. It's a delicous table cheese. This gourmet cheese is an award winner and received a 2nd Place Ribbon in American Cheese Society Competition in Vermont in 2007. We sell this cheese as a wheel of 3 lbs, half a wheel or as a quarter wheel piece of 12 ounces....
San Joaquin Gold
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San Joaquin Gold is a farmstead cheese made in style of an Italian Fontina. San Joaquin Gold is named after the rich San Joaquin Valley of Central California, nestled between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the California Coastal Range Artisan San Joaquin Gold has a natural, thin rind with a tawny buttery color. Mildly sweet and mellow when young, it develops a darker golden hue and nuttier flavor over time. Its flesh is firm and granular with an aroma of toasted nuts and browned butter. It has pleasant acidity and salt balance with a deep lasting flavor and lovely sweetness. This cheese from the Fiscalini Farms is an award winner more than once. It is made in 32-pounds wheels with a cow's...
San Jorge
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San Jorge is produced from the milk of cows that graze on the Island of Are Jorge, in the Açores, Portugal. The aroma of the cheese and the flavor are strong, clean and slightly spiced. The rind is hard, with a smooth surface and a yellow color, sometimes with chestnut-colored spots and coated with paraffin. The maturation process is 1-3 months long and the result is a firm cheese with small 'eyes' and a yellowish color....
San Simon
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San Simon is a popular smoked Spanish cheese. It is made from cow's milk in the region of Galicia in the northwest of the country. The curd is transferred into pear-shaped moulds, after a day, the forms are immersed in hot whey. After two weeks, the cheeses are smoked. The gourmet San Simon cheese has a delicious, creamy buttery texture. The cheese has a thin chestnut-orange rind, a soft inside and is mild but full of flavor. This versatile cheese is great on its own, and sublime when paired with fresh fruit or served as a dessert cheese....
Sapsago
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Sapsago is a pale green gourmet cheese from the Canton of Glarus in Swizerland and is something of an acquired taste. It is made from skim milk and buttermilk and flavored with fenugreek and melilot, a wild clover which grows in the locality and gives the cheese its unique flavor. Many seek it out as a low-fat substitute for Parmigiano and Pecorino Romano. The gourmet cheese is extremely hard and is made for grating. Sapsago has many names; Sap Sago, Schabziger and may even simply be referred to as 'green cheese'. It is pressed into small truncated cones of 3 ounces which we sell in pairs....
Sbrinz
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Sbrinz is not very known outside Switzerland; this extra-hard mountain gourmet cheese takes almost twice as long to mature as Emmental or Gruyere. It is more like an Italian Grana cheese and will keep for a long time without requiring a cool environment. Produced in large flattish wheels, Sbrinz has a hard, thick, golden-brown rind and an extremely hard, grainy paste. The aroma is very tangy and piquant. This gourmet cheese has a very distinctive aroma with rich coffee and chocolate tones and a lemony tang. The flavor is really mellow and mature with a slightly burnt quality to it. Sbrinz is very good shaved into paper-thin curly slices....
Schloss
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Schloss 'Castle' has it heritage originating from Austria. Schloss is a flavorful tawny, golden brick. This cheese is loved by many since 1901. This artisanal gourmet cheese is aged for up to 5 months and rather pungent....
Selles-sur-Cher
Your price: $9.97
Selles-sur-Cher A.O.C. is a French gourmet cheese. The Loire valley is home to this little goat's-milk cheese from the village of Selles-sur-Cher near Orleans. It is one of the any local village goat cheeses in the area but is distinguished by the fact that it is always coated in black ash. Produced in tiny discs, the cheese has a very white paste in contrast to its black surround. The paste is firm yet soft and moist when it is young. The flavor is mild and nutty. As the cheese matures it develops a soft blue mold under the ash and the paste hardens and sharpens in flavor. Similar cheeses are Pouligny-St Pierre and Valençay....
Seriously Sharp Cheddar
Your Price: $7.15
When Sharp goes awry, when Extra Sharp earns a pucker, Seriously Sharp is born. Hearty enough to satisfy any outdoorsman, this ripe-and-ready cheese is seriously sharp. Its flavor varies from vat to vat, but the quality always remains the same. Just ask the Vermont hunters who've made this a cult classic.It is appropriately packed in a checkered wrapper....
Shadows of Blue
Your Price: $19.97
Australian Shadows of blue is a rich, mild double cream blue vein cheese similar to the Danish Castello Blue. It is a blue for Brie cheese eaters. Like all triple cream cheeses, the cultures grow quickly in the warm, rich, creamy milk producing a firm, chalky cheese. The Roqueforti mould cultures break this down to a soft texture and mild full flavor. A wax coating holds the flavors during the maturation period of 8-10 weeks....
Shropshire Blue
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Shropshire Blue cheese was originally invented and produced in Scotland, but is now made by some of the Stilton cheese producers. Indeed, it is made in exactly the same way as Stilton except that annatto is added to the milk with the starter culture and the mold. This British gourmet cheese has nothing to do with Shropshire. Shropshire Blue cheese comes in drums with a rough brown rind. The paste is bright orange in color with vivid blue veining. The texture is firm and creamy, but also slightly crumbly. The flavor is sharper than Stilton and quite distinctive. There is a definite sour or wine-like tang with oranges and lemons but the Shropshire Blue aftertaste is sweet. This fine gourmet ...
Smoked Rambol
Your Price: $14.20
Smoked Rambol is a smooth, spreadable cheese from France, made with pasteurized cow's milk. This rich gourmet cheese has some flavor similarities with a Gruyere and can be used in your fondue; the smokey flavor will add something extra....
Snofrisk
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Snofrisk is a perfectly white Norwegian spreadable cheese made from 80% goat's milk with 20% cow's milk cream. The flavor of this cheese is fresh, mild and soft with a slight tangy after taste. It is easy to spread and would do great in a cheese cake and is delicious just on a piece of rustic bread or cracker. The triangle container holds 4.4 ounces and we sell them in pairs....
Sola Sora
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'Sola' or 'Sora' is a term in dialect meaning 'sole of a shoe'. This gourmet cheese has this name because of its low, flat shape. It is made from an ancient recipe rediscovered in Valcasotto. Each form of Sola Sora has a characteristic mark left by the knot tied in the binding used when the curd is wrung out. Sola Sora is a raw cow's milk cheese with a soft, yielding consistency and a buttery smell. It is ideal accompanied by summer salads and also in fondues....
Southern Belle
Your Price: $15.30
Southern Belle is an award-winning Montrachet style goat cheese is that is perfectly dressed for the Kentucky Derby or anytime you want a Southern treat. It is a small disc of 2 ounces that is covered with bourbon pecans, mint and sugar for a mint julep inspired taste sensation. We sell three of these small discs at a time, offering you 6 ounces of Southern Belle....
Strachitunt
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Strachitunt is an Italian gourmet cheese that you will not find on every cheese board. Strachitunt is a raw cow's milk cheese, produced in the Valtaleggio, home of the Taleggio. It is a blue gourmet cheese made in small batches according to traditional methods and matured in rustic conditions to promote the natural molds in the colors blue, gray and green.The cheese has a sweet and tangy flavor....
Stripey Jack
Your Price: $9.98
Stripey Jack cheese is like a potpourri of traditional English cheeses; Red Leicester, Double Gloucester, Lancashire, Cheddar and Cheshire are combined in five different layers that make up one cheese. This gourmet cheese is very decorative and the flavors of the cheese blend very nicely together. Stripey Jack is a very versatile cheese that will be appreciate by many as it has a taste everybody will like....
Swedish Farmer Cheese
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Farmer Cheese is a regular on the Swedish breakfast table. This cheese is called 'hushållsost' or Riksost, which means 'household' or farm cheese. Farmer Cheese is a semi-soft, mild Swiss-type cheese and that would be Emmental. The cheese is used in sandwiches, and because it melts well it is also used in pizzas, or other dishes; an all around cheese. We cut and wrap this cheese in pieces of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
Swedish Fontina
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Swedish Fontina is a smooth textured semi-soft cheese made from partially skimmed cow's milk and can be recognized by its bright red wax. The texture of the cheese is smooth with small eyes formation. The flavor is mild and slightly tangy and has similarities with other Scandinavian cheeses, such as Havarti and Danish Fontina and not so much with the Italian Fontina....
Swiss Raclette
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The name Raclette means 'scraper' and refers to a group of gourmet cheeses which are melted to make a traditional Swiss dish of the same name. These are mountain cheeses made originally in the Vallais region but are now produced throughout Switzerland. Although the French also produce a fine Raclette, we believe that the traditional Swiss Raclette cheese is superior and demanding of your selection. The texture of the Raclette is very smooth and it seems to melt in the mouth even without heating. The aroma is strongly reminiscent of the farm with a mixture of fruit and wine aromas. The taste is usually equally strong, with rich wine-like notes, and a tangy accent. We have 3 sizes, a half wh...
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