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This Week's Tasting: October 17, 2017

 

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 cheeses, so if these 6 don’t please you, we will find you the cheeses that do.

Humboldt Haze, a special release from Cypress Grove in California, is a soft-ripened goat cheese that is elegantly layered with fennel pollen. Piquant in flavor and creamy-smooth in texture, Humboldt Haze tastes delicately of fennel throughout.

Caraway to Heaven is a smooth, semi-firm raw cow's milk cheese studded with caraway seeds. Made by Eagle Mountain Cheese in Lipan, Texas, it is great for the cheese plate or for melting.

Joe and his wife, Mary, have built their entire business around the production of this cheese named after their homeland. In St. Jorge, a Portuguese island in the Azores, Joe’s family has been making cheese for five generations. More than 25 years ago, Joe moved to Santa Rosa, California where there was a Portuguese population hungry for the cheese of home. With a small herd of Jersey cows, he started producing Matos St. Jorge, a raw milk cheese which is smooth, sweet, and buttery. Its semi-firm texture lends it nicely to melting.

The Von Trapp brothers in Vermont (yes, they are related to the Sound of Music Von Trapps) make the lovely washed rind, Oma, from raw organic milk. Not too pungent with a dry, patterned rind, Oma has a rich, meaty flavor. The Von Trapps named for their grandmother, "Oma," in German.

Gruyère 1655 from Le Crêt is aged at least one year in Switzerland. 1655's producers use a salt from a source that is 200 million years old. The cows graze on mountainside pastures, giving the cheese a unique earthy flavor. Its paste is the color of butterscotch, and its texture is firm, dense and slightly flaky. 

Flora Nelle is a pasteurized blue with a natural rind dusted with vegetable ash made by the Rogue Creamery in Oregon. Robust and piquant with pervasive blueing, its intense blue flavors are accented by subtle hints of sweet cream, nuts and blueberry.

Our wine of the week is the Le Copains Rosé from McPherson Cellars in Lubbock, Texas. It is a dry rosé with delicate plum and berry flavors, a crisp acidity, and a long finish. We taste wine from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays.

Our pairing of the week is a Strawberry Balsamic Preserve from Garden Dreams in Houston.

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