Category: Cheese

Castelbelbo

Castelbelbo is a cow, sheep, and goat’s milk cheese. Light, earthy, mushroomy notes, then a tangy very lactic finish with an elegant hint of barnyard. And no, I’m not really sure what exactly a barnyard tastes like at this point—I was just reading the label. It’s definitely a bloomy-rind cheese but the consistency is a […]

Cacio de Roma

Cacio de Roma (literally, “cheese of Rome”) is a semi-firm textured cheese from Lazio, Italy. It is made with pasteurized sheep’s milk. It’s quite mild in flavor, similar to Manchego, with a firm texture that is pliable instead of dry.  I really think it tastes somewhere in between a provolone and a parmesan.  There definitely is very little […]

Bonrus

Bonrus is a mixed-milk cheese, made from pasteurized cow and sheep’s milk. It is a bloomy-rind cheese, aged for 21 days before packing and shipping. It comes in ovals and bricks, each weighing about 8 oz. The cheese itself is straw colored, with some reddish notes on the rind. The surface of the cheese is […]

Asiago Pressato DOP Rosso

Asiago Pressato DOP Rosso is a cow’s milk cheese. From the Veneto region of Italy. Semi-cooked, soft paste and lactic notes with a slightly sweet finish on the palate. The paste is white to straw color with many “eyes.” Not bad, kind of the usual dry, smelly asiago. Goes well on any kind of sandwich, […]

Cravanzina

Cravanzina is a mixed-milk cheese, made from a combination of pasteurized cow’s and sheep’s milk.  A delicate and lovely little round from the Italian Piedmonts; in the “paglia” family of cheeses, so named because they are aged on beds of straw (paglia = straw). Covered with a bloomy rind, the voluptuous paste is mild, creamy, […]

La Tur

La Tur is an Italian bloomy rind cheese. Pasteurized goat, sheep and cow milk combination cheese. Being an unholy mix of different animal milk, naturally it smells quite foul—but not at all by goat cheese standards. The rind is soft and buttery; it is similar to Boucheron cheese, in that the rind is soft and […]

Stracchino

Stracchino is a type of Italian cow’s-milk cheese, typical of Lombardy. It is eaten very young, has a soft, creamy texture and normally a mild and delicate flavour. It is normally square in form. It’s generally eaten as a dessert cheese but in many areas of Italy, it’s used as a filling.(too lazy, copies wikipedia…)The […]

Robiola Bosina

Robiola Bosina: this one is from Bosina, Italy. This cheese is also called robiola a due latti as it is a cow’s milk and sheep’s milk combination. The type of cheese is called bloomy rind, like e.g. brie and camembert. The milk combination works pretty well—it’s not overwhelmingly sour sheep’s milk flavor. Soft cheese with […]