Isn’t this pretty? That’s vegetable ash in the center of this French semi soft cheese. I think Morbier is already on my blog but I’m having fun with my new mobile WordPress app. This reminds me of the Chaumes I sampled yesterday .. but perhaps a little saltier than the Chaumes… there’s a hint of [...]
Up on the tasting block for tonight is Chaumes, a soft ripened cheese from southwest France that was inspired by Trappist-style cheeses. This soft cheese has a washed rind that is bright orange with a soft yellow, almost ivory colored flesh. The flesh is rubbery to the touch but smooth and almost creamy in the [...]
A hard little cheese this one, and I mean literally. This super bright orange cheese (colored with anatto), is hard, dry, flaky and well up there on the salt scale. It has a strong, pungent salty flavor with a bitter, yet pleasant earthy undertone. While I enjoyed this cheese, I’m not certain it belongs on [...]
Mmmm. Ok, it happened again. I met another cheese I did not like. I wanted to like it, really I did, but I was immediately put off by the very strong, very ripe aroma. This French AOC semi-soft cheese is made by Les Monts De Joux and is apparently, (according to my cheesemonger), about to [...]