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Current Featured Cheese - October 2024
Our cheese selection process is the cornerstone of our success and is what sets us apart from other artisanal cheese clubs. We look for traditionally made, farmhouse and artisanal cheeses made from the best natural ingredients. You will taste the difference.
Scroll down to discover this month’s artisanal cheese selections, or view all of our upcoming selections with the links below…
2024 Original Cheese Club Selections 2024 Rare Cheese Club Selections
Featured Cheeses |
Original Gourmet Cheese Club
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The Rare Cheese Club
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3 cheeses per month |
3 cheeses per month |
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Caerphilly | ||||||
Grafton Classic Reserve Cheddar | ||||||
Cantal | ||||||
P'tit Basque | ||||||
Consider Bardwell Farm – Pawlet | ||||||
L'Etivaz |
Please Note: Although we will make every attempt to ship the products listed, occasionally we may need to substitute them with equally outstanding cheeses. If you strongly desire to receive those listed, please contact us at 800-625-8238 so that we may note your account accordingly.
- Country: Wales
- Cheese Texture/Type: Firm
- Cheese Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 2-3 months
- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture/Type: Firm
- Cheese Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 2 years
You are about to enjoy a cheese that was savored, and even written about, by the Romans over 2000 years ago. Its rich heritage was born in central France in the Auvergne mountains at an altitude of over 3000 feet. Auvergne has exceptionally lush pasturelands due to the volcanic soil, mountain storms, and summer sun - all of which give this celebrated cheese its rich and vigorous taste. Two thousand years ago, the curds were put into a wooden cylinder called “le Formage,” which is now the French word for cheese.
Cantal bears the AOC designation and can be found in 3 sizes – the largest wheel weighing about 95 lbs. It has a thick smooth, grayish/brown rind, and some say it smells like its fertile pasturelands. The interior is close textured and pale yellow with a sweet milky aroma, a nutty, buttery flavor, and a slightly acidic finish if it’s aged. Typically this cheese is matured from 3-9 months, and you will find it is quick to show fleur de bleu – a blue mold which the Europeans gladly eat.
- Country: France
- Cheese Texture/Type: Semi-firm
- Cheese Milk Type: Sheep
- Cheese Age: 70 days
This is a labor-intensive cheese… the curd is literally cut by hand. The cheesemakers reach into their kettle of warm curd, and ever so slowly, break it into small pieces from which the final cheese will be formed. This ancient technique protects the gentle flavor of the finished cheese. Pyrenees cheeses aren't the kind that hit you over the head. Instead, they're lovely, smooth, subtly fruity with a nice little bit of a nose, the kind of cheese you might eat every day at lunch, or with a simple dinner and glass of dry white wine. P'tit Basque offers floral and sweet caramel notes.
- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture/Type: Semi-firm
- Cheese Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 5 months
A semi-firm, washed rind cheese aged 5 months, Pawlet is unquestionably one of Consider Bardwell Farm’s most popular cheeses. It has a warm buttery-yellow, creamy paste and presents lactic and herbaceous aromas. The flavors are mild, sweet, grassy, a touch floral and nutty. Overall, we find it very balanced and savory. Consider recommends eating Pawlet with whole grain mustard, toast, and a wheat beer.
- Country: Switzerland
- Cheese Texture/Type: firm
- Cheese Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 12 months
L’Etivaz, named after a small Swiss mountain village, is said to be made as Gruyere cheese was once made over a century ago. An AOP designated cheese, L'Etivaz is made from milk from a small cooperative of 76 cheesemakers that felt that government regulations were enabling cheesemakers to produce Gruere in a way that compromised its original flavor profile and integrity. In the 1930s they created L’Etivaz and eventually sought and obtained AOP designation.
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You might receive a Gaperon, originating in France during the 14th Century, an
authentic Lancashire by Ruth Kirkham, and an Italian Taleggio matured in the
caves of Valsassina…all in one shipment!
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