Ardi-Gasna
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€ 16,09
Ardi-Gasna is a French traditional gourmet cheese made of sheep milk that is produced in wheels. This cheese is AOC controlled as Ossau-Iraty-Brebis.
It has a firm, semi hard texture that is perfect for grating and a slightly sweet, nutty flavor. The rind is smooth grayish beige. The cheese is pale yellow in color with a supple texture with scattered small holes.
It has a distinctive, sour, wine-like aroma with a touch of the farm and a really tangy, spicy taste. Lemons and leaf mold remain in the lingering flavor which is sweet, salty, and mellow.
This gourmet cheese's maturation time is between four and six months and is at its best in the fifth month, when this gourmet cheese de...
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Asiago
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Asiago D.O.C. is an Italian gourmet cheese that originates from the high plateau of Asiago in the northeastern part of Italy for thousands of years.
There are basically two types of Asiago, the Asiago Pressato and the Asiago d’Allevo.
The Asiago d’Allevo has a grayish-yellow rind and a pale straw-colored paste which is supple but sliceable. There are numerous small eyes. The flavor is attractively nutty with a slightly lemony aftertaste. The paste hardens and the flavor strengthens as the gourmet cheese matures and it takes on a more tangy character.
The Pressato is the younger version, younger in age, but also younger in tradition, it is often said that the Pressato is more tailor...
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Canenstrato Pugliese
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€ 11,83
Canestrato Pugliese D.O.P. is a cylindrical uncooked hard gourmet cheese made from full cream sheep's milk and ripened over a period of 2 to 12 months.
The name of this gourmet cheese derives from the wicker baskets, canestri, in which the cheese reaches maturation. The wicker baskets are a traditional product of the Puglia area.
During the aging process the rind of the Canestrato Pugliese is treated with olive oil and sometimes with wine vinegar, resulting in a dark yellow colored rind. The paste is firm with very small eyes.
The cheese is excellent for grating over a variety of pasta dishes. The Pecorino Romano is similar, but sharper and saltier flavor....
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Comte
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€ 11,45
Comté A.O.C. is an ancient French gourmet cheese, also known as Gruyere de Comte; it is made in the Massif of the Jura, a region composed of medium range mountains situated in Franche-Comté, which lies between the Vosges and the Haute-Savoie.
The cheese is hard, straw-colored, contains some medium-size holes and has a tendency to crack on cutting. Comté has a floral aroma with nutty fudge flavors developing in the more mature cheese. The taste is full of nuts and toffee with a lovely long and salty finish. Older cheeses take on a strong, farmyard-like character.The cheese has a thin beige rind which thickens and hardens as the cheese matures.
This cheese is a close cousin of the Beau...
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Grana Padano
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€ 11,36
Grana Padano is a sweet and savory gourmet cheese, the name Grana was popularly bestowed upon the cheese because of its "grainy" consistency which was markedly different from the other cheeses known until then.
Grana Padano was created at the beginning of the millennium by the Cistercian monks of Chiaravalle who used ripened cheese as a way of preserving surplus milk. By 1477 it was held to be the most famous cheese of Italy. Grana Padano is produced throughout the regions of Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto, and in the provinces of Trento, Bologna, Ferrara, Forlì, Piacenza and Ravenna.
Grana Padano is a cylindrical, cooked hard cheese which is matured slowly. It may be used as a cheese...
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Gruyere, cave matured
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€ 12,59
The origins of the gourmet Swiss cheese name Gruyere date back to 1655 when Gruière depicted the district of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland where the cheese is made. Gruyere is a picturesque area in the alpine foothills with lush pastures which surround the lovely village of Gruyeres, a Medieval market place.
A Gruyere cheese has a long maturation process of 5 - 12 months. The quality of the cheeses of the different maturation ages are equal, and the preference depends on the consumer’s taste.
The presence of holes in the cheese is desirable but not essential. They have a diameter of 4-6 mm. Small individual cracks are permitted. The cheese is smooth to the touch with a slightl...
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Milner Extra Matured
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€ 11,00
Milner Extra Matured is an older Dutch low fat cheese that contains 40% less fat than the regular Gouda-type cheeses.
Despite this low fat content the cheese has full taste is nicely aged.
Milner Extra Matured is made from low fat milk and is used on sandwiches in salads or just as a healthy snack in between meals.
We also sell the Milner Medium Matured and the Milner Lightly Matured; all with the reduced fat content....
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Old Maaslander
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Old Maaslander is a delicious fully ripened cheese with the creamy softness of a pure Maaslander.
The black-yellow cheese contains less salt and is appreciated by people who dislike the crumbliness and salty after-taste of the traditional old cheeses but do like the flavor of fully ripened cheese.
This Maaslander is delicious on bread, suitable in sauces and fit for grating. Besides the black-yellow Maaslander there is also a mild Maaslander with a mild and creamy flavour and a red-yellow Maaslander, the matured Maaslander with a full bodied and creamy flavour....
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Parmigiano-Reggiano
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€ 17,49
Parmigiano-Reggiano is a member of the Grana family of very hard Italian cheeses and it has been produced in small-size dairy farms for many hundreds of years. In the English-speaking world this famous cheese is generally known as Parmesan.
Parmesan cheese is made in squat drums which look rather like small beer barrels. The rind is a shiny golden brown color and has the name of the cheese printed allover it. The paste is a good straw-yellow color with a grainy, flaky, and brittle texture which hardens as the cheese matures. The maturation time is 24 months or more.
The cheese has a radial grain which makes it difficult to cut with a knife. Instead it is split open with a special wide...
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Pecorino Pepato
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€ 10,81
Pecorino Pepato is a gourmet Italian sheep's milk cheese studded with peppercorns. It's an intense, salty cheese that would be hard to appreciate on its own, but as a seasoning for pasta, especially with fava beans or tomato sauce, it is hard to match. Traditional pecorino pepato comes from Sicily, where it is part of the regional cooking.
Because the name is not protected legally, any pecorino producer could make a pepato. You may find this cheese at various stages of maturity. If it has some age, as the one you buy from Cheeseline.com you can shave it over sliced fennel, drizzle it with olive oil and enjoy it in a salad. pr
This gourmet cheese has a pronounced farmers aroma and piqu...
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