Check out these two featured cheeses this week.
Come taste them at all 4 of our locations!
The Rembrandt is naturally matured for 52 weeks. Traditionally ripened for one year this award winning Dutch cheese has a firm texture and a rich, tangy flavour. It offers an exceptional taste experience and is the perfect cheeseboard centerpiece. Rembrandt is made form an exclusive Dutch Gouda recipe, a traditional approach that was specially created for producing and maturing the cheese in a classic, natural way.
Comté is an ancient cooked and pressed cheese made from raw milk. A wheel weighs about 80 lbs and measures 3 ft in diameter. Comté is made in the Jura Massif of France, a region of medium-range mountains stretching along the Swiss border north of Geneva. Montbéliarde and French Simmental cows are the only breeds authorized to produce the milk for Comté. The cows graze in vast pastures from spring to autumn, and eat local hay in the winter. All fermented feed is banned from their healthy diet.
It takes time for Comté to develop its taste. It is aged in maturing cellars for at least 4 months by law, but generally for 6-18 months or even longer. Comté is characterized by its complex aromatic richness. It is not a cheese with a uniform taste. Each wheel of Comté reveals a distinct aromatic composition that varies according the micro-region where it was produced, the local microflora, the season in which the cheese was made, the distinctive style of the cheesemaker, the cellar where it was matured… In this respect, Comté is truly a unique cheese. Rich in phosphorous, calcium, minerals and protein, Comté is a valuable food whose nutritional contents are useful in maintaining a balanced diet. Made with no additives or artificial colorants, and controlled at each level of production, Comté is a pure, healthy and natural food
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