Gourmet Cheese, Gourmet Food and Gourmet Gifts

Welcome to Gourmet-Food.com where the dash makes all the difference!

Browsing Pungent cheese

Now Displaying Page 1 of 1

Aged Brick Spread

American

Wisconsin

Cow

Soft

Award Winner

Your Price: $5.28

Aged Brick Spread is made from a blend of brick cheese and sharp cheddar cheese aged for 9 months and is a delectable spread from Wisconsin that will keep you coming back for more. Widmer's Cellars in Teresa, WI is one of the few factories that makes Brick Cheese. It is best served on crackers, or spread it on your hamburger buns. Brick is a Wisconsin original, first made around 1877 by John Jossi who was around Limburger production from a very young age. Brick cheese is made according to the E... read more

Brie de Meaux

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

From: $8.97

Brie de Meaux is a big, round, soft gourmet French cheese, has a velvet white mold rind, which changes to a pinkish-beige during the ripening process. Brie de Meaux is one of the French 'Le Roi des Fromages' (The King of Cheeses) and comes from a particular area in the Ile-de-France near Paris. It is an ancient cheese; the oldest evidence of Brie de Meaux is found in the chronicles of Charlemagne. The maturation process of this classic gourmet cheese takes 8 weeks. Brie de Meaux has a slightly b... read more

Chimay with Trappister Beer

Belgian

Imported

Cow

Semi-soft

From: $11.87

Chimay with Trappister beer receives a very personal preparation and maturing, resulting in an exclusive, authentic gourmet cheese. Its natural rind is bathed in Chimay Trappister beer so that its flavor flatters the palate and the nose; the rind is sticky. The Trappist monks of Scourmont have known the secrets of making cheese since 1876. Cheese was made from good milk from their farm and matured in the vaulted cellars of the abbey. Today, Chimay with Trappister beer is made exclusively with r... read more

Crane Mountain Chevre

American

New York

Goat

Semi-soft

All Natural

Your Price: $26.30

Crane Mountain is a square block of semi-aged chevre made with 100% goat's milk and covered with a white rind. Crane Mountain is a composition of Lorraine Lambiase and Sheila Flanagan who run Nettle Meadow Farm, a 50 acre goat and sheep dairy and cheese company in Thurman, New York in the Adirondacks. Nettle Meadow is committed to the principles of natural ingredients, happy and healthy animals, and carefully hand-crafted artisan cheeses. Crane Mountain has a feta-like consistency when it is you... read more

Edel de Cleron

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

Your Price: $12.45

For Vacherin lovers, l'Edel de Cleron is the next best thing. Produced in the same part of Eastern France, the French-Comte. Edel de Cleron is a luscious cow's milk cheese, wrapped with a strip of spruce bark around their perimeter to support the cheese, which is runny when ripe. L'Edel de Cleron, sometimes called faux Vacherin, is a made with pasteurized cow's milk, and has a Camembert-like bloomy rind when young. As it ripens, some tan molds may colonize the surface. The surface should give w... read more

Epoisses

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

Your Price: $21.61

Epoisses is made in a small town in Burgundy, in France and is one of the great gourmet cheeses of France and of the world. Each gourmet cheese is covered in an edible reddish-brown coating, and underneath that coating is a creamy, soft, white interior with a daunting aroma that comes straight from the farm, often said it is a candidate for the top ten most pungent French cheeses. Epoisses is produced in small discs and is washed in Marc de Bourgogne as it ripens. The flavor is deliciously rust... read more

Grayson

American

Virginia

Cow

Raw milk

Semi-soft

From: $11.23

Grayson is a soft, finely textured cheese with a orange-brown sticky rind, a golden semi-soft paste, a pungent aroma and a rich, beefy taste with nutty overtones. Virginia's Feete family says it is reminiscent of an Italian Taleggio or a French Livarot. Grayson is made with raw milk of Jersey cows and aged longer than their Italian and French counterparts, around 60 days; no pesticides or herbicides are used in the fields where the cows are pastured. This washed-rind gourmet cheese is made in t... read more

Limburger

German

Imported

Cow

Soft

Vegetarian

Your Price: $7.16

Strictly speaking this is a Belgian, not German, cheese. It was originally made in the monasteries near Limburg in Belgium but it was adopted, and indeed largely taken over, by the German cheesemakers more than a hundred years ago. Limburg has the typically pungent aroma of a washed-rind cheese, but you will be surprised by its mild texture and taste. It seems that it is the rind that is doing all the work. If you want to have Limburger with a stronger taste to match the smell, just choose one i... read more

Munster Gerome

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

Hurry only 2 left at this price. Was

~~$14.18~~ Now: $9.99

Munster Gerome is produced in an area that not only makes very pungent cheeses, but also excellent spicy wines. Its production center is the pretty village of Munster, set amid pastures and vineyards. A young Munster cheese has a thin but firm pinkish-red rind with white paste. As it matures the rind turns to a darker russet color with a deep straw-colored interior. The paste is soft and supple with small holes in it. It becomes almost creamy in texture as it matures. The maturation time is usua... read more

Petit Livarot

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

Award Winner

Your Price: $14.94

Petit Livarot is the smaller version of the Livarot which is known as 'The Colonel' because of the five strips of raffia which are wrapped round it to stop bulging. It has a glossy orange-brown washed rind which can become very dark and rustic looking. The golden paste has little holes and is soft and springy. The French gourmet Petit Livarot is clearly a cheese that cannot be missed because of the pungent aroma coming from the rind. The aroma is farmyard like bacon and ammonia but the paste is ... read more

Pont l'Eveque

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

Award Winner

Your Price: $12.97

Pont l'Eveque is made in a distinctive square shape which is achieved by cutting the curds into blocks rather than into small pieces or grains. One block makes one cheese. They are drained and placed in fat square molds. After dry-salting, the cheeses are ripened in humid cellars. This pungent French gourmet cheese is still made on the farms of the Pays d'Auge in Normandy just as it has been for centuries. The maturing cheeses are washed with brine to give a light tan-colored rind which develops... read more

Saint Vernier

French

Imported

Cow

Soft

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 'Affine 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'Eveque, but it is not as strong. Because the cheese is very small, we sell it in pairs, offering you a total of ... read more

Taleggio

Italian

Imported

Cow

Soft

From: $6.24

Taleggio D.O.P. is a soft Italian gourmet cheese that is considered a delicacy when served in dishes or when served on its own as a delightful Italian taste treat. It is a gourmet cheese of very old origins, perhaps even before the 10th century. Its regional origin was the Val Taleggio, in the province in Bergamo, from which derives the name of the cheese. Currently the area of production and ripening of the Taleggio cheese is Lombardy, Piedmont and Venetia regions. The rind of the cheese is thi... read more

Winnimere

American

Vermont

Cow

Raw milk

Soft

Your Price: $30.30

Winnimere is a unique seasonal cheese, made from raw Ayrshire cow's milk. Jasper Hill Farm's cheese shows similarities with the Vacherin Mont d'Or. The cheese is washed with a lambic-style beer that is brewed from the farm's own wild yeasts, and wrapped with a strip of spruce bark cut from the farm's own trees - farmstead it is. The cheese spends 60 days in Jasper Hill's aging room and the result is aromatic cheese that may turn some of you off at first, but this artisanal cheese has a smooth sw... read more

Now Displaying Page 1 of 1

Browse our Gourmet cheese by Characteristic