This Week's Tasting: September 22, 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!

Tubby is a collaboration between the Spring Brook Farm in Vermont and the Brooklyn affineur, Crown Finish Caves. Tubby is made in the traditional alpine style in Vermont, in copper vats with raw, cow's milk. It is then sent to New York and aged for a year in Crown Finish's caves where it is regularly washed with a brine. The 30lb wheel has a smooth paste and piña colada aromas. Fruity, brothy notes as well as a subtle crystallization make for a delicious Alpine-style made by some of America's best.

Also on our tasting plate this week:

Baby Caprino, an ash-ripened, fresh goat's milk cheese from the CKC Farm in Blanco, Texas.

San Andreas, a raw, farmstead sheep's milk cheese from Bellwether Farms in California.

Thomasville Tomme, a raw cow's milk tomme style from the Sweet Grass Dairy in Georgia.

Sawtooth, a raw cow's milk washed-rind style from the Cascadia Creamery in Washington.

Rogue River Blue, a cow's milk blue which is wrapped in pear-liqueur soaked syrah leaves from Rogue Cheese in Oregon.

Our wine of the week is a Chenin Blanc from McPherson Cellars in Lubbock, Texas. We taste wine from 10am to 2pm on Saturdays.

We are also sampling Urban Honey from Words & Foods in Houston, Texas.