Apr 2017 Featured Cheeses | Cheese of the Month Club

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Pont L'Eveque

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Pont L'Eveque
Double Gloucester
Sage Derby

Sage Derby

Country: England
Cheese Texture/Type: Semi-firm
Cheese Milk Type: Cow
Cheese Age: 1-3 months

Sage Derby is a vegetarian cheese made from cow's milk. In the seventeenth century, the custom of adding sage (a herb valued at the time for its health-giving properties) to Derby cheese was born. These days, the cheese is blended with spinach juice and dried sage.

Pont L'Eveque

Country: France
Cheese Texture/Type: Soft; Washed Rind
Cheese Milk Type: Cow
Cheese Age: 4-6 weeks

Pont L’Eveque is made on the bridge that gave it it's name in Normandy, France. It is similar to a camembert, but the rind is “washed” before aging with a brine solution. This gives the square-shaped cheese a much more pronounced flavor and a rustic, farmyard aroma. It is particularly well suited to full bodied red wines.

Double Gloucester

Country: England
Cheese Texture/Type: Semi-firm
Cheese Milk Type: Cow
Cheese Age: 60 days

Double Gloucester is a traditional, unpasteurized, semi-hard cheese which has been made in Gloucestershire since the sixteenth century. Records show, however, that Gloucester was known as early as the 8th century. The hard, natural rind has some gray-blue moulds and bears the marks of the cloth in which it is matured. Cheese merchants used to check the rind's robustness by jumping on it with both feet to test it! If the rind didn't crack, the cheese was safe to travel. The full-cream, double milking sessions milk used to make Double Gloucester gives it characteristic, rich, buttery taste and flaky texture. It is firm and bitable, like hard chocolate. Not as firm as Cheddar, it has a mellow, nutty character with an orange-zest tang and a hint of onion.

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Featured Cheese - April 2017