This Week's Tasting: February 5, 2018

Every week at Dairymaids we select six cheeses to include in our free cheese tasting. Whenever we are open, we are tasting cheese. We stock over 150!

Ewenique is a sheep's milk gouda-style made exclusively for Central Coast Creamery in Holland using a recipe developed by cheesemaker Reggie Jones. This 100% sheep milk has a brilliant velvety white paste and a delicate texture. It boasts incredible sweetness and flavors redolent of salted caramel and fresh vanilla beans with a slight hint of citrus to contrast the savory qualities of the sheep milk.

We'll also be sampling:

Chocolate Capri - a semi-sweet chocolate goat's milk cheese from Westfield Farm in Massachusetts. A special Valentine's Day treat!

Prairie Breeze - a cow's milk cheddar made from alpine cultures from Milton Creamery in Iowa.

Mt. Tam - a triple-cream cow's milk brie from the Cowgirl Creamery in California.

Pleasant Ridge Reserve - a raw cow's milk alpine style from Uplands Cheese is Wisconsin.

Fior D'Arancio - a cow's milk blue that is washed in an italian dessert wine flavored with oragne and topped with candied orange peels from Sergio Morro in Italy.

Our wine of the week is a Gamay from La Coeur de la Reine in Touraine, France. It is light-bodied and mellow with bright notes of strawberry and raspberry. We taste wine from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays.

Our pairing of the week is an Early Glow Strawberry Preserve from American Spoon in Michigan.