Fondue Cheese
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Emmentaler - cow's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Switzerland.
Emmentaler is a hard, pale yellow Swiss cheese. It has a sweet smell, with a fruity taste and delicate aroma. The most prominent feature of Emmentaler is the walnut-sized holes it contains. Emmentaler is probably the origin of the sterotypical holey cheese image.
Cheese is originally from Emmental in the Swiss canton of Bern.
Uses: Table cheese, grilling, fondue.
In Switzerland Emmentaler is combined with Gruyere and Swiss white wine to make fondues. A glass of the same white wine forms a perfect complement.
When served on the table, a crisp dry white wine, such as Sauvignon Blanc or Shiraz, is preferred by most.
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Gruyere - cow's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 16 oz/454 gr, Switzerland.
Gruyere is a buttery and toasty-flavored cheese. It is hard with a firm, yet pliable texture. The texture is dense and compact, yet flexible. It is this density that makes it stronger and less stringy than Emmental when heated, so it is better for grating, grilling and in soups.
When Gruyere cheese is first cut, the aroma suggests a million meadow flowers trapped in rich, creamy milk. Sligtly grainy, the cheese has a wonderful complexity of flavors – at first fruity, then revealing a more earthy, nutty characteristic that lingers on the palate.
Uses: Serve it with red or white Burgundies, a range of Rhone reds from Cote Rotie to Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Bandol, Alsatian red...
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Appenzeller - cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Switzerland.
A traditional cow's milk cheese produced in various sized wheels in the Appenzell region of Switzerland. The cheese has a pale, yellowish-orange color and a firm texture. It is bathed in a mixture of wine, spices, and salt which produces an orange rind that is hard and dry. The flavor of Appenzeller is rich and buttery which sharpens with age. It is excellent for snacks, sandwiches, grilling, or as a melting cheese. This Swiss cheese is made mostly in the canton of Appenzell, which is near the Austrian border. It has a pleasing, smooth texture, but this cheese's real charm is its fruity tang.
Compliments: Appenzeller makes a great snack with a piece of fruit, and it also melts well.<...
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Fontina Val d'Aosta - cow's raw milk fondue cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.
Firm, thin, dark yellow or reddish-brown in color.
Genuine Italian Fontina comes only from the Val d'Aosta mountains near the Swiss border.
Made from unpastuerized raw milk, it is a pressed, cooked medium-ripened hard cheese with a delicate, nutty, almost honeyed flavor, somewhat like a Swiss Gruyere but more buttery and sweeter. Great in fondues.
Taste: A delicate nuttiness with a hint of mild honey. When melted, the flavor is earthy, with a suggestion of mushrooms and a fresh acidity.
Appropriate wines: Friuli Merlot; German Riesling; Dolcetto; Red & White Rhones; Urquell Pilsner.
Compliments: This cheese goes well cooking fondue and melts ...
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Larzac - Roquefort Fondue - soft sheep's milk cheese in a ceramic jar - 3.5 oz/100 gr, France.
Roquefort cheese is one of the world’s oldest and most respected cheeses. It dates back to ancient Rome, around AD 79. Charlemagne loved it and in 1411, Charles VI of France granted that the cheese be allowed to age in the caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, where they still affinage (mature) today. This process gives it the illustrious taste that makes it so famous.
It’s a brilliant blue French cheese made from ewe’s milk. And we offer it as a fondue cheese.
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