Semi-Soft Cheese

Dutch Cheese Gouda Smoked 1 lb.

Smoked Processed Gouda - cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Holland.

The smoked version of the world-famous Dutch Gouda cheese. Delightfully smoky and full of taste. It keeps all the subtle textures, with the pleasant addition of a hearty smoked taste.

Smoked cheese Gouda is produced in Holland in some of the world's most modern, computerized dairy plants. Yet, the Gouda cheese is still smoked in ancient brick ovens over smoldering hickory chip embers. The brown, smoky rind is not only edible, it's the best part of the cheese!

Compliments: Melt it atop your favorite sandwich. Serve as an... more »

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Norwegian Cheese Jarlsberg 1 lb.

Jarlsberg - cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Norway.

Jarslberg - the world’s most popular variety of “Baby Swiss” cheese. Jarlsberg cheese is a hole-ridden, mild cheese that resembles Emmentaler and Gruyere in flavor and texture, but with a splendidly sweet, nutty and fruity aftertaste, perfect for a table cheese or a superb sandwich.

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Spanish Goat Cheese Murcia Al Vino - Drunken Goat 12 oz.

Murcia Al Vino - Drunken Goat - goat's milk semi soft cheese - 12 oz/340 gr, Spain.

This wine-bathed cheese is made from pasteurized goat’s milk in the Murcia region of Spain. This region has a rich variety of grasses, shrubs, and wild herbs on which the goats graze to give the cheese a distinctive taste and aroma.
The unique feature of this Spanish cheese is that it is washed in red wine during ripening. The wine deeply tints the cheese, giving the rind its characteristic burgundy color and imparting a strong floral bouquet. This wine soaked cheese is a real gem. It not only has a bold, delicious flavor, it has the intoxicating ... more »

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Portuguese Cheese Toledo w/Paprika 8 oz.

Toledo with Paprika - semi-hard cheese rubbed in paprika - 8 oz/228 gr, Portugal.

This Portuguese cheese is made from a blend of cow's, sheep's and goat's milk. It is creamy, bitter, with a full finish.

Appropriate wines: Rioja Alta, Penedes, young Cabernet.

Fat in Cheese: 45%.

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Danish Cheese Havarti Creamy 1 lb.

Havarti Creamy - cow's milk, semi-soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Denmark.

Havarti Creamy is Denmark’s most popular cheese.

Traditionally the cheese is aged on rye straw and occasionally brine washed, which contributes t its Characteristic aroma of an old, humid cellar. The rind may show many colorful molds (white, yellow and red), a result of the wild grasses that the Salers cows eat during summer and autumn. The texture is semi-soft often with small eyes in the paste. The flavor is a wonderful combination of a summer pasture and sweet, fruity milk flavors.

Appropriate wines: Bordeaux, Saint Estephe and Californian Cabernet.

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French Cheese Morbier - Montboisse 1 lb.

Morbier - Montboisse - cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, France.

The rind of Morbier cheese is natural and rubbed, and the paste is supple and sweet. It is a mild cheese, originally made for personal consumption by the cheesemaker of Comte. Today, the black layer is a harmless vegetable product and purely decorative. The shape is round, with building sides and horizontal black furrow through the middle.
The paste is uncooked and pressed, the color is ivory to pale yellow.

Appropriate wines: Muscat, Jura's wines, some red light Burgundy wines.

Fat in Cheese: 45%

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Spanish Sheep Cheese Manchego Mini "El Trigal" 2.2-2.4 lb.

Manchego Mini "El Trigal" - aged sheep's milk semi soft cheese - 2.2-2.4 lb/1-1.1 kg, Spain.

El Trigal is produced by the Corcuera Family, which was the first in all of Castilla La Mancha to make and commercialize Manchego cheese. The best cheese is produced when the milk is the richest, which is between August and December.
This Spanish cheese Manchego is extremely buttery and aged to perfection at either 3 months, 6 months (semi-curado) or 1 year (anejo).
Appropriate Wines: Rioja Alta, Penedes, young cabernet. You can also try with a beer.

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Italian Cheese Caciotta al Tartufo w/Truffles 1 lb.

Caciotta al Tartufo - semi soft cheese with truffles pieces, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.

This semi-soft cheese with black truffles is made from a blend of cow's and sheep's milk, and aged about one month.
The paste is mild and gentle and the flavor of truffles is an original delicacy to match with sharp wines.

Appropriate wines: Strong Merlot from Napa or Tokay from Hungria.

Fat in Cheese: 50%

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Italian Cheese Ubriaco del Piave 1 lb.

Ubriaco del Piave - cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.

Ubriaco cheese is Italian for drunk or intoxicated, which suits this cheese because it is bathed in Cabernet, Merlot and Raboso must for three months, creating a bruise-colored rind and a very fruity flavor. It has a sweet fragrance, and the cheese itself is semi-soft, white and creamy. The Piave is a river in northern Italy.

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Spanish Cheese Campo de Montalban 1 lb.

Campo de Montalban - mixed milk semi-soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Spain.

This semi-firm to firm Spanish cheese is a blend of cow, sheep and goat's milk harvested in La Mancha. Aged three months, the texture and appearance are similar to Manchego yet the flavor exhibits characteristics of all three milks. Before 1985 this was considered a Manchego cheese. Campo de Montalban is rich and buttery and finishes with a perfect balance in your mouth.

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Spanish Sheep Cheese Idiazabal 1 lb.

Idiazabal - smoked raw sheep's milk semi-soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Spain.

This handmade, unpasteurized sheep's milk cheese comes from the Spanish Pyrenees. Idiazabal is naturally smoked with a hard but edible orange-brown rind. At that time, people enjoyed the smoky flavor that the cheese acquired from aging inside the chimneys, and Idiazabal spread throughout Spain.

Today, Idiazabal is produced in more modern facilities, but the process is still all-natural. The cheese is as delicious as ever, and the quality is more consistent. We love its perfumed bouquet and rich, buttery flavor and enthusiastically recom... more »

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English Cheese Cashel Blue 1 lb.

Cashel Blue - cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Ireland.

This cheese is made in a similar way to Roquefort although it is softer, moister and less salty. When young the cheese is firm and relatively moist with a fresh and slightly sharp flavor. With aging it develops a melt-in-the-mouth creaminess and a rounder, mellower flavor. Cashel Blue can be matured for up to six months. All milk used for the cheese is now pasteurized. The very best cheese is made from April to October when the cows are out to pasture, but Cashel Blue is still excellent throughout the year.

Great for an Irish gourmet food gift.

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French Sheep Cheese Petit Basque 1.4 lb.

Petit Basque - sheep's milk semi soft cheese - 1.4 lb/550 gr, France.

This semi-soft sheep's milk cheese is handmade in the French Pyrenees. The Pyrenees Mountain range, a natural border that divides France and Spain, is populated by the Basques, a people who have their own customs and language. Although the Basques live on both sides of the border, they produce this French cheese on the French side. Amidst the breath taking, rolling mountains of the Pyrenees, vast pastures stretch as far as the eye can see, providing fertile grazing for milk-producing sheep. Petit Basque, made from pure sheep's milk, has a rather dry texture and an ear... more »

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Spanish Goat Cheese Murcia Al Vino - Drunken Goat 1 lb.

Murcia Al Vino - Drunken Goat - goat's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Spain.

This wine-bathed cheese is made from pasteurized goat’s milk in the Murcia region of Spain. This region has a rich variety of grasses, shrubs, and wild herbs on which the goats graze to give the cheese a distinctive taste and aroma.
The unique feature of this cheese is that it is washed in red wine during ripening. The wine deeply tints the cheese, giving the rind its characteristic burgundy color and imparting a strong floral bouquet. This wine soaked cheese is a real gem. It not only has a bold, delicious flavor, it has the intoxicati... more »

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Spanish Sheep Cheese Romao 1 lb.

Romao - artisan sheep’s milk cheese cured in rosemary (cuenca), cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Spain.

This Spanish cheese from Cuenca is hand-rubbed with oil and fresh rosemary and aged in caves for eight months. Estanislao and his brother have been making the cheese for many years. It is chewy and complex with a long finish that highlights the rosemary.

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French Cheese Chaumes 1 lb.

Chaumes - cow's milk semi soft stinky cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, France.

Based upon traditional Trappist-style cheeses, this has proven to be one of the most popular of the modern French cheese varieties. This soft rind is bright tangerine-orange and the interior is smooth, supple and quite rubbery. Although it looks as though it is about to run, the cheese is actually fairly dense and feels wonderfully rich and creamy on the tongue.

Food compliments: Goes well on a mixed wheat roll or crusty french bread.

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French Cheese Port Salut 1 lb.

Port Salut - cow's milk semi-soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, France.

Edible orange rind pasteurized cow milk cheese

Consistency: Supple, smooth

Taste: Tangy and mild, slightly acid

Also called Port du Salut, this rich, savory cheese was originally made by Trappist monks in Entrammes, France. Lactic bacteria is used in production, which gives the cheese a acidity to complement its mild taste. It is shaped in thick wheels with a dense, pale yellow interior and an edible, bright orange rind. The Danish version is known as Esrom. Ours is made by S.A.F.R., one of the best and most authent... more »

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Italian Cheese Sottocenere al Tartufo w/Truffles 1 lb.

Sottocenere al Tartufo - cow's milk semi soft cheese with truffles, cut cheese- 16 oz/454 gr, Italy.

This semi-soft cow's milk exotic cheese has been aged in ashes to preserve it, according to Venitian farmer's tradition. These ash ingredients include nutmeg, cloves, coriander, cinnamon, licorice, and fennel. The cheese itself has black truffles in it and the rind is aromatized with truffle oil.
Appropriate wines: Powerful merlot from Napa or Tokay from Hungria.

Great for Italian food gifts.

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Italian Cheese Ubriaco al Prosecco 1 lb.

Ubriaco al Prosecco - raw cow's milk semi soft cheese, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.

This raw cow's milk cheese from the Vento region in Northern Italy is also the home of Prosecco. During the aging process, the cheese is submerged in Prosecco (sparkling white wine) and covered in Prosecco grape must leaving a sweet and delicate yet very complex flavor.

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Italian Sheep Cheese Rustico Peperoncino w/Red Pepper 1 lb.

Rustico Peperoncino - sheep's milk semi soft cheese with red pepper, cut cheese - 1 lb/454 gr, Italy.

A creamy, semi-soft sheep's milk cheese from the countryside of Rome with crushed red pepper. The cheese strikes a perfect balance between cheese and pepper and is very versatile.

Try melted on pizza, shaved over vegetables or in a salad.

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