Sure, you've heard of Cambozola. Brie-style pasteurized cow's milk cheese with the barest hint of blue veining - what's not to love? Well, until you've tried the Black Label, you haven't experienced the utmost in creamy blues.

How's this one different? Well, for starters, the gray mold on the rind brings another layer of nuance to the flavor profile. A longer ripening time also enhances the taste and texture.

A great introduction to blue cheese for those who might be intimidated by some of the more intense specimens on offer - try it with something bubbly and brut.

Cambozola Black Label Champignon

Käserei Champignon

Cheese Cave

Soft ripened Jersey Cow's milk cheese made in the spirit of the French cheese St. Marcellin.

St. Albans

Vermont Creamery

Upland

Point Reyes Toma is a gluten-free semi-hard, dutch style, farmer's cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk, produced by Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company, California, US. This cheese made with microbial rennet has a buttery, creamy flavour with a grassy tang finish. Toma is wonderful on a cheese board or with omelets, burgers, sauces. Try pairing it with Hop-heavy beers, Pinot noir, Scotch. 
The cheese has won many awards including silver medal at 2010 World Cheese Awards in London, gold medal at 2011 California State Fair, 1st place ribbon at 2011 American Cheese Society in Montreal.

Point Reyes Toma

Point Reyes Farmstead

Sprouts Farmers Market

St. Nectaire is a French semisoft, washed rind cheese from the Auvergne region of France. Made from the milk of Salers cows that feed on rich, volcanic pastures, St. Nectaire is both a fermier (farmhouse) and industrial cheese. Depending whether the processes are artisanal (raw milk) or industrial (pasteurised milk), the texture attributes in St. Nectaire are vastly different.
AOC awarded, St. Nectaire fremier takes six to eight weeks to mature on rye straw mats, imparting a peculiar pungent smell to the cheese. When properly aged, it has a grayish-purple washed rind, dotted with white, yellow and red molds. The creamy, supple, silky textured paste melts in the mouth to reveal flavours of nuts, hay, cellars and mushroom.
St. Nectaire fremier is easily recognizable by the oval label while the industrial version is stamped with a square label. A glass of Bordeaux, Shiraz, Côtes d'Auvergne or Beaujolais and St. Nectaire will go hand-in-hand.

Saint-Nectaire

Association of Cheese Auvergne PDO

Mature Gouda made from sheep's milk cheese.

Ewephoria

Cheeseland

Comté is a French cheese produced in the Jura Massif region of Eastern France. The unpasteurised cow's milk used is mainly from Montbeliarde Cattle or French simmental (or cross breeds of the two). This hard mountain cheese is matured to perfection in the silence and darkness of special caves where the cheese gets its unique taste, texture and colour. There are several maturing cellars in the region where Comté is ripened for a minimum of 4 months to 18 or 24 months. A few times, Comté gets its name from the cellar where it has ripened such as Comté Fort Saint-Antoine.

Comté was one of the first few cheeses to receive an AOC (Appellation d'origine controlee) status in 1958. It is one of the most popular AOC cheeses in France with around 40,000 tones of annual production.

Considered one of the finest cheeses in the world, a wedge of Comte reveals a pale yellow interior and a texture that can vary from silky, flabby to crystalline.
There are practically 83 flavours, which can be savored while tasting Comté. But the main aromatic flavours that delicately linger on the palate are a balance of brown-butter and roasted-nut aromas and a sweet finish.

Its ability to melt easily means Comté goes well with many recipes right from fondues to Croque Monsieur. The cheese pairs well with Rhone reds, a Palo Cortado or off-dry Amontillado sherry from Spain.

Fromageries Arnaud, the winner of Super Gold medal at the 2014 World Cheese Awards, is one of the top-notch groups in the world to make French certified-origin cheeses. Today, the Fromagerie counts for roughly 12% of the total Comté production. The cheese is distributed worldwide by British supplier Anthony Rowcliffe & Son. This celebrated cheese has been judged as one of the world's 62 best cheeses.In addition, Comte produced by Entremont also won a silver medal for its great taste and impeccable texture. Entremont makes Comte in three varieties – 1 year matured Prestige, fruity flavoured Fruité and Vieille Reserve made using traditional methods in 50 small village cheese dairies.

Comté

La filière Comté

The blue lovers bleu! A true artisan blue, master crafted in small batches with piquant waves of flavor and a crisp clean finish you’ll savor.



Glacier Point Blue

Carr Valley Cheese

Bold, nutty flavors with notes of crushed apple. Ages 12 months.

Cello Parmesan

Trader Joe's Emmentaler

Trader Joe's

Primo Taglio Parmesan

Primo Taglio

The characteristics of this small, fermier or artisanal goat's milk cheese from Lyon are the blue mould and reddish rind that appear after a aging for two to four week. The cheese has a strong taste of salt.

Mont D'or Lyonnais

Fromagerie Les Longevilles Arnaud

Opus 42 is semi-firm cheese made using aromatic cultures such as flora danica and penicilium candidum. It is aged for 3-6 months during which it develops a mottled natural rind with a pale yellow paste that is slightly sharp and nutty. The aroma is yeasty complemented by distinct notes of cellar, earth and lemon.

Opus 42

Lakin's Gorges Cheese LLC

Brie de Melun is said to be the ancestor of all Brie's which originated in the region of northern France known as Seine-et-Marne. It was granted an AOC protection in 1980 that requires that the cheese be manufactured under strict guidelines for supreme quality.

Brie de Melun is produced from either whole or skimmed, raw milk of cows grazing in the valleys of Seine et Marne and some departments of Aube and Yonne. It is semi-soft cheese inoculated with a Penicillium mold and aged in a cellar for at least 4-5 weeks. If the cheese is left to ripen for a longer period, say several months then it matures to a Brie Noir. Since, Brie de Melun is coagulated with lactic acid as opposed to animal rennet it is a vegetarian cheese.

It is an aromatic cheese with slightly musty and straw-like smells floating the air. Over-ripening the Brie can result in an unpleasant odor from bacteria that are used to ripen the mould. The texture is semi-soft and the rind slightly dry. As the cheese matures to a Brie Noir, the rind turns darker and crumbly. In addition, the pate is drier and darker and the flavour stronger to taste. The usual flavours are strongly lactic and slightly salty finished by soft, barnyard, sour notes. Brie de Melun is used to prepare regional dishes like croûte au brie. It pairs well with Gaillac and wines from Burgundy or the Rhone Valley.

Brie de Melun

Named after a mountain in the region, Mont Ida is a soft-textured cheese with a mixed rind that is white and flecked with yellow.

When young, it is mild in flavour and aroma - with delicate notes of mushroom. With age, the flavour and aroma become strong - with pronounced earthy tones. (Aged for a minimum of 14 days)

Zeno Rocha

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