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A beautifully firm, robust blue prepared within the administrative region of Cabrales, located at the foot of the Picos de Europa Mountains in Asturias. The cheese is a mixture of raw cow’s milk, goat’s and sheep’s milk aged two to four months in naturally formed limestone caves.
3rd PLACE SOFT RIPENED WASHED RIND – AMERICAN CHEESE SOCIETY AWARDS 2023
MouCo ColoRouge is a natural rind cheese that is reddish-orange in color with a slight white finish. Soft and creamy is a great description for the textures as well as taste and aromas. Mildly earthy tones compliment the slight acidity of the young cheese. As it ages the cheese will start to soften, develop a pronounced buttery characteristic as well as develop a further complexity in its earthy characteristic. MouCo ColoRouge is fully aged at 7-8 weeks. At this point the cheese flavor is quite complex with its buttery creamy flavors as well as a developed earthiness that is spicy and …well…just addictive. The cheese just begins to get gooey when left to warm to room temperature.
We’re excited to introduce our newest raw milk find from Spain! This “Sacred Dame” is produced using Murciana goat’s milk in the town of Carpio de Tajo, just outside of Toledo. The goats belong to a cooperative of farmers who also are members of the dairy that make the cheese. They believe in aging the cheese a minimum of 6 months to accentuate the best features of the cheese, which has a full flavor (sweet and grassy) and great protein formation.
We start by using the best milk that we can find in our area. This means we start making cheese with the freshest milk possible. No artificial colorings, preservatives, or additives are used in the cheese making process of our Camembert, which is all done by hand. This cheese is quite creamy from the start with hint of milky creaminess. As the cheese ripens it develops creamy undertones and buttery characteristics topped off with a nutty mouth feel. MouCo Camembert is fully aged at 7-8 weeks. At this point the cheese flavor is fully complex with butter, creamy and nuts in it`s flavor display. The cheese just begins to flow when left to warm to room temperature.
Fourth generation cheesemaker Javier and his wife make this teardrop shaped cheese in their home in Lugo, Galicia, which also doubles as a cheese plant. It’s a tiny operation with only 4 employes, and the care with which this award-winning cheese is made shows. Javier waits until the end of the process to smoke the cheese with birch wood for up to 90 minutes. It develops a lovely caramel colored exterior, a golden interior with tiny eyes and a subtle smoked flavor. Javier says the aroma reminds his customers of a time gone by, when their food was cooked over a wood-fired flame. We couldn’t agree more.
This ‘Manchego’ cheese is coated with fresh local rosemary and aged for 15 months. During the curing time, the cheese picks the amazing aroma of the rosemary, adding an extra depth of flavor.