This Week's Tasting: August 21, 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!

Fior d'Arancio is a special blue from Italian cheesemaker Sergio Moro. He pierces the young cow’s milk cheese, places it in barrels, and then bathes it in Fior d’Arancio DOCG - a sweet wine produced with Moscato grapes grown in volcanic soil - for about 30 days. It is then left to finish aging on wooden planks. The wine helps the cheese develop aromas of stone fruits, honey, and orange blossom, all encased in a lush, full flavored paste.

Also on our tasting plate this week:

Fresh Chèvre, a fresh, goat's milk cheese from the Pure Luck Dairy in Dripping Springs, Texas.

Midnight Moon, a goat's milk gouda made by Cypress Grove in California.

Griffin, a raw, semi-firm, cow's milk cheese with curds washed in porter from the Sweet Grass Dairy in Georgia.

Pleasant Ridge Reserve, a raw, cow's milk, Alpine-style from Uplands Cheese in Wisconsin.

Stracapra, a goat's milk, washed-rind, Italian style from Lombardy, Italy.

Our wine of the week is Church House Texas Blush, a rosé from the Texas Wine Co. in Meadow, Texas. We taste wine from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays.

We are also sampling a Blueberry Lime Preserve from American Spoon in Michigan.