Affine au Chablis
 Your Price: $16.25 The French gourmet cheese Affiné is washed with the French Chablis, hence the name Affiné au Chablis. Chablais is a prestigious white wine of Burgundy to establish a very rich, aromatic profile.
Slightly smaller than its popular sibling Epoisses, and Affiné is washed in Chablis instead of marc. This distinction gives a slightly sweet, gentler punch to the finish of Affiné than the Epoisse.
During the maturation of Affiné, the yellow-orange color will become stronger growing from the heart of the cheese. Near to maturity, the pigmentation will be more constant, and the flavors of Burgundy will surface. The cheese is soft and can be spooned, and Affidelice has a concentrated richness and a c... |
Bayley Hazen Blue
 From: $11.94 Bayley Hazen Blue is an American artisanal blue cheese with a stable natural rind. It is made with whole raw Ayrshire milk and aged for approximately 75 days.
This farmstead cheese from Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont is made with the Roquefort mold, but reminds you of Stilton. The cheese is drier and crumblier than most blue cheeses and its texture reminds one of chocolate and butter. Bayley Hazen Blue was awarded a second place in Open Category Farmstead Cheese at the American Cheese Society Competition of 2007.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of approximately 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |
Castello Blue
 Your Price: $8.90 The Danish Castello Blue is a triple-cream, blue-veined gourmet cheese with a washed-rind. It is also called Blue Castello.
The cheese's surface has a unique combination of blue-green and reddish molds. These molds give the cheese its distinct aroma and flavor. Castello Blue has a Brie-like texture, with the blue in fairly thick, horizontal lines.
The taste of Castello Blue is delectably rich and buttery, with mild spicy accents of blue veins and the aroma is of mushrooms. The mild flavor develops steadily as long as it keeps, but it never becomes too strong.
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Chimay Grand Cru
 From: $12.46 Chimay Grand Cru is made according to an ancient recipe, and produced from pasteurized cow's milk.
The rind of this Belgian gourmet cheese is natural and the cheese matures for six weeks which gives it its pure and mellow flavor.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound.... |
Chimay with Trappister Beer
 From: $14.06 Chimay with Trappister beer receives a very personal preparation and maturing, resulting ina 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 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 regional milk and the Trappist monks have modernized their production equipment.
Consume the Chimay with Trappister beer with a strong authentic Belgian beer and you will have a great combination. We cut and wrap this c... |
Grayson
 From: $11.62 Grayson is a soft, finely textured cheese with a orange-brown 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 the mountains of southwestern Virginia at the Meadow Creek Dairy; a small family farm dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Grayson is only produced when the cows are on natural pasture from April through Oct... |
Limburger
 Your Price: $7.58 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 in a more ripened stage. A creamy cheese that is mostly an acquired taste, Limburger continues to be a popular favorite and a staple for every cheeseboard.
The cheese is produced in small loaves with... |
Red Hawk
 Your Price: $19.51 Red Hawk is a triple-cream, washed-rind, fully-flavored cheese made from organic cow's milk. This small cheese is aged for 6 weeks and washed with a brine solution that promotes the growth of a bacteria that tints the rind a sunset red-orange.
Red Hawk is named after a raptor that circles the skies in northern Marin County where this gourmet cheese is made and it has like all washed rind cheeses an presence. If you like Epoisses and Munster, you will mostl likely like this Californian cheese.
Red Hawk won a 2nd Place Ribbon in 2007 in the Washed Rind Cheeses Category and a second place of all catergories in 2009 at the American Cheese Society Competition.... |
Saint Nectaire
 From: $7.35 Saint Nectaire is an ancient French gourmet cheese from the mountains of the Auvergne. This is a raw milk cheese in France and is brought into the USA made with pasteurized milk of mostly Salers cows.
The cheese is made in 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.... |
Schloss
 Your Price: $10.55 Schloss 'Castle' has its heritage originating from Austria. Schloss is a flavorful tawny, golden brick. This cheese is loved by many since 1901, when it was created in California.
Schloss is smear ripened and aged for up to 5 months. This artisan handcrafted cheese is a washed rind cheese, the rind is sticky and often almost 'slimy' when you unwrap it. The plastic wrap is perforated allowing the cheese to breathe and the wet, slimy rind is adding to the flavor of the cheese and can be called aromatic or robust. It would not surpise you to say that this cheese does compliment bold wines and dark beers.
Schloss is a small square 6-oz. cheese that is packed in its individual box.... |
Taleggio
 From: $9.07 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 thin, and of soft consistency; its color is natural rose-orange, with the presence of a characteristic grey and green light sage color mould. The paste is uniformly compact, softer under the rind and t... |
Tilsit
 From: $7.85 Tilsit, also called Tilsiter, was the invention of Dutch immigrants to the town of Tilsit in East Prussia, now Lithuania. Since then it has been widely copied and is made all over Germany. In the east of the country it is also known as Tollenser. The traditional shape for Tilsit is a large wheel but, increasingly, the cheese is being produced in large loaf shapes, so is the one we offer you.
This German gourmet cheese has a washed thin brownish rind and creamy yellow paste, very similar in appearance to Danish Havarti, with its irregular holes and bread-like appearance. The texture is very springy and elastic but fairly moist. Tilsit has a little bit of an aroma and warm earthy flavor.
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Winnimere
 Your Price: $27.44 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 is spends 60 days in Jasper Hill's aging room and the result is aromatic cheese that may turn you off at first, but this artisanal cheese has a smooth sweet milky flavor accented by a woodsy aromatic depth.
This is one of those cheese you have to try at least once in your life. This cheese does not pair well with wine; you need a strong counterpart, a be... |