Hard Cheese - Firm Cheese
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Manchego El Trigal - aged 6 months, sheep's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Spain.
Manchego is Spain’s most popular sheep's milk cheese. The sheep come from the plains of La Mancha, the home of the famous Don Quixote. The area is extremely hot and the sheep graze on dry pastures and grain stubble fields. When it comes time to mature, like many other Spanish cheeses, Manchego is smeared with olive oil. It has a very potent, nutty flavor that is unforgettable. The amount of time this cheese matures varies.
Appropriate wines: Rioja Alta, Penedes, young cabernet. You can also try with a beer.
Fat in Cheese: 55%.
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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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Kosher Manchego - sheep's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 7 oz/200 gr, Spain.
Manchego has a firm and compact consistency and a buttery texture, and often contains small, unevenly-distributed air pockets. The color of the cheese varies from white to ivory-yellow, and the inedible rind from yellow to brownish beige. The cheese has a distinctive flavor, well developed but not too strong, creamy with a slight piquancy, and leaves an aftertaste that is characteristic of sheep’s milk.
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Pecorino Romano - Genuine Fulvi - sheep's milk hard cheese - 9-12 oz/256-342 gr, Italy.
Pecora in Italian means sheep and Pecorino Romano is one of Italy's oldest cheeses. Today most Pecorino cheese is made in Sardina, Italy. This slightly spicy, sharp, tangy sheep cheese gets increasingly robust with age.
Compliments: Try Pecorino Romano with homemade bread, fresh fava beans and wine. Try whittling off shavings and enjoying with salami. It is also a treat with ripe pears and honey.
Appropriate Wines: Dry but rich reds, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah/Shiraz, Merlot, Zinfandel.
Great for Italian food gifts.
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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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Zamorano - raw sheep's milk semi-soft cheese, cut cheese - 16 oz/454 gr, Spain.
Zamorano is an ancient cheese from Castile y Leon. It is made from raw milk of the region's Churra and Castellano sheep. Its rind has the familiar zigzag pattern of many Spanish cheeses. Its name comes from the city Zamora and has a dry, ungummy texture and distinctly nutty flavor.
You can serve it with ham, melon, pears, tomatoes, crusty bread and a solid red wine.
Compliments: Goes well with crackers and olives or melted in an omelet.
Appropriate wines: RIoja Alta, Penedes, strong cabernet. You can try also with stout beer.
Actual items may differ slightly from pictures shown.
Fat in Cheese: 50%
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Ricotta Marzolina - sheep's milk hard cheese cone - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.
A hard sheep's milk cheese from Southern Italy. It is excellent for cooking and salad tossing, or even for grating. Individual serving sizes come in the shape of yellowish cones. A very pleasantly-flavored, rather sweet and rich taste, but not pungent.
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Parmigiano Reggiano - cow's milk hard cheese - aged 20 months - 9 lb/4 kg, Italy.
Italian Parmigiano Reggiano cheese is a prestigious cheese, unique for its inimitable quality originating eight centuries ago in the area between Parma and Reggio Emilia. It contains a concentration of highly nutritious substances. Seven quarts of milk are needed to make each pound of cheese. Slow, natural aging produces an unparalleled taste, easy digestion and substantial nourishment.
Compliments: This cheese goes well as an addition to soups, salads, pasta dishes and veal/chicken.
Appropriate wines: Strong Merlot from Napa or Tokay from Hungria.
Actual items may differ slightly from pictures shown.
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Pecorino Ginepro wheel - sheep's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.
An unusual and arresting cheese made of raw sheep milk. Each 6 pound wheel of Pecorino Ginepro is soaked in an aromatic bath of balsamic vinegar and juniper before it is aged for a minimum of four months. The dark brown rind is created by the vinegar, though the lingering finish is kissed with gin-juniper rather than acerbic acid. Wrapped in paper, which contains moisture, the Pecorino cheese is always moldy, and benefits from a few hours 'breathing'.
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Garrotxa - goat's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Spain.
This goat’s milk cheese was once produced solely in the Garrotxa area of Catalonia. This is the area of the Pyrenees region of Spain that is furthest to the East, lying right on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
Spanish Garrotxa cheese has a white interior with a very creamy texture that is surrounded by a natural mold rind. It has an unusual but mild flavor with a light acidity and a hint of hazelnuts. It melts very smoothly, but we like to eat it out of hand. It is sure to become a new Spanish favorite.
Apropriate wines: Garrotxa is delicious with young fruity white wines, such as the white Albarino from Galicia, Oloroso Sherries from Jerez, Muscatels produced in Navarra and V...
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Pecorino Toscano Stagionato DOP - sheep's milk hard cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.
This traditional Italian Pecorino Toscano is firm and dense in texture with complex nutty flavor. Unlike our other Pecorino's, this one is not aged. Pecorino Toscano is a young 100% sheep cheese, only about 40 days old when it arrives on our shores. Because it is a young cheese it is somewhat discreet, almost shy. As the cheese first hits your tongue, you detect a hint of Tuscan herbs, grass and wildflowers. The aftertaste it leaves on your palate is a wonderfully complex flavor that is hard to describe but easy to enjoy.
Appropriate wines: Pecorino cheese goes best with Chianti (Sangiovese).
Authentic Pecorino Toscano is name-protected by the Italian Government. Th...
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San Simon - cow's milk smoked hard cheese - 2-2.5 lb/0.9-1.1 kg, Spain.
Surrounded in the west and north by the Atlantic Ocean and mountains from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Galicia has always been a remote region of Spain. This isolation fostered an ancient cheese culture. Here the Galacia cows graze on the lush green pastures and bear milk that its people have been making into cheese for generations in the town of Villalba.
San Simon is aged 2-4 weeks, lightly pressed and then gently smoked for 2 weeks after leaving the mold. Inside its red, polished brown rind, San Simon has a creamy, buttery, smoky flavor that ranges from mild to piquant.
Compliments: San Simon can be enjoyed with fruit and raw vegetables and is also excelle...
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