6-9 months aged. Brabander goat's milk gouda is made in the Brabant region in the south of the Netherlands from the pasteurized milk of Saanen goats. The wheels are aged for around six months under the direction of Betty Koster who runs Fromagerie L’amuse, Amsterdam's best cheese shop. What’s especially interesting about the aging of these wheels is that it's…
Feta is an ancient cheese. In Homer's Odyssey, Ulysses found feta in the cave of Polyphemos the Cyclops. Feta is also a much maligned cheese, copied everywhere, made with more care for the bottom line than for flavor. Until recently anyone could call their cheese feta and the country that made the most feta in the world was Germany. Now…
2 year aged. L'Amuse Signature Gouda is a Dutch cheese made from pasteurised cow's milk, at the Cono cheesemaking, Northern Holland and it is considered as the best of all goudas. The wheels of this cheese are hand-selected and sent for further maturation at L'Amuse cheese shop, where the wheels are matured for 2 years at warm temperatures. This allows…
Unlike most Comté imported to the U.S., we choose our wheels based on a flavor, not on age or price. We take into account the time the cheese travels so it comes to you tasting like it should. The Comté we select from Marcel Petite's Fort St. Antoine aging cave will arrive at a point of ripeness where all the…
Pastuerized, not Raw Milk. There are fewer than ten cheesemakers left in Spain making farmstead PDO Manchego artesano with a natural rind like the one we offer at Essex St. Cheese. Farmstead means the animals live at the same farm where the cheese is made. PDO Manchego artesano is the Spanish government's seal of approval saying this is the real…
Unlike most Comté imported to the U.S., we choose our wheels based on a flavor, not on age or price. We take into account the time the cheese travels so it comes to you tasting like it should. The Comté we select from Marcel Petite's Fort St. Antoine aging cave will arrive at a point of ripeness where all the…
Feta Voras is made in the far Northwestern corner of Greece, in the province of Florina. This is mountainous land, covered in wildflowers and herbs. It’s about as far away from the island of Lesbos and M. Tastanis’s feta as you can get and still be in Greece, but the cheese is still proper feta, recognized with the PDO protected…
