Three Months of Artisanal Cheese

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From the Alps to the Canary Islands, California to Vermont, send your favorite cheese connoisseurs on a tour of tastes! For three successive months they’ll receive a trio of artisanal cheeses, the perfect gift for any cheese lover.

July's Cheese of the Month Collection includes: Sentinelle

This third cheese from the American Cheese Society awarded cheese maker has a soft, pure white center, a goaty taste and zest from tits lovely orange washed rind. When young, its texture is pleasant, and becomes even softer and creamier with age. The name recalls the time when the neighboring Fort Ingall, as Sentinelle, protected the Canadian border. Today, the goat herd eats the lush grass under the Aster Scientific Station, which observes the movements of the galaxy. Pair Sentinelle with Burgundy reds or aromatic white wines such as a Riesling or Canadian Gewurztraminer.

Uplands Pleasant Ridge

Uplands Pleasant Ridge is one of the most exquisite farmstead cheeses made in America. The product of Wisconsin's Mike Gingrich, this multiple award-winning cheese is a wonderful rival to France's noble mountain cheese, Beaufort. Uplands Pleasant Ridge has a nutty, clean flavor and milky finish that shows off the extremely high quality of the cow's milk. Its rich, dense and balanced flavors pair well with many wines: from Albariños to Zinfandels.

Roquefort, Artisanal Cave Aged Three Months

This 3 month aged (minimum) Roquefort has a velvety white paste with blue-green marbling throughout, and renders a subtle aroma from the combination of curd and Penicillium roqueforti.
The taste is like that of a Grand cru: well balanced, reasonably salty, smooth and creamy; it melts in your mouth with a long finish.
The rich milk for this cheese comes from the Lacaunes ewes that graze in the high altitude plateaus of the Causeess. It is then infused by a strain of Penicillium roqueforti that was developed by a baker exclusively for this dairy. It is this unique strain that gives a particular personality to our Roquefort Grand Cru Artisanal.
Pair it with a bold wine from Cahors, Rasteau or a dessert wine such as Banyuls, Jurancon, Montbazillac or Sauternes. This beautiful blue is appreciated by renowned chefs worldwide.

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