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June 14, 2007

126. Coupole

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Coupole is one of a few artisinal cheeses made by the Vermont Butter and Cheese Company, a company in Vermont that makes butter and cheese. The name comes from the French word for "dome" and pictures of the cheese on the producer's web site show a rounded top to the cheese which did not survive in the mail order shipment. Produced from pasteurized goat's milk and sprinkled with ash Coupole starts out slightly firm and sliceable. As it ages the cheese softens and takes on a creamier, even runny texture.
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I bought two of these little domes/disks trying one four days after the first. In that time Coupole took on an oozy edge with a still firm center. The flavor is delicious--fresh with a mild goaty bite. The older version is creamier, almost as if melted. The taste was much like one of my favorite cheeses, La Tur, a blended milk cheese, but being strictly goat, Coupole packs a bit more bite and lacks some of La Tur's smoothness. Despite that it is a great goat's cheese and can convince people who think they don't like goat cheese to reconsider that opinion.

Name: Coupole or Vermont Butter & Cheese Company, Coupole
Type of Milk: goat's, pasteurized
Type: soft
Produced in: United States of America, Vermont, Vermont Butter and Cheese Company
Date Purchased: 6/8/2007
Date Eaten: 6/12/2007
Purchased Where: United States, Online, www.murrayscheese.com
Price: $11.99 each

Posted on June 14, 2007 9:19 PM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (2)

June 17, 2007

128. Cobb Hill Farm Ascutney Mountain Cheese

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Sometimes the most interesting person in a room can be overshadowed by the most beautiful. After tasting Cobb Hill Farm Ascutney Mountain Cheese among a group that included Coupole, I remembered very little of what Cobb Hill was like. When I tasted it by itself a few days later I couldn't understand how I could possibly have underappreciated it. The raw cow's milk provides the base for a host of flavors of grass and earth, milk and fungus, that remind me of some of the best cheeses of Switzerland but produced here in the U.S.. A really remarkable cheese.

Name: Cobb Hill Farm Ascutney Mountain Cheese
Type of Milk: cow's, unpasteurized
Type: semihard
Produced in: United States of America, Vermont
Date Purchased: 6/10/2007
Date Eaten: 6/12/2007
Purchased Where: United States, online, http://www.murrayscheese.com
Price: $21.99/lb.

Posted on June 17, 2007 9:37 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

October 23, 2007

157. Bartlett Blue

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If I had paid for it I would like it just as much. Bartlett Blue came as a free extra in my last order from Artisanal Cheese and I cannot thank them enough. It is one of the best blue cheeses I've had this year. The texture is semi-soft, slightly crumbly but not brittle. The cheese is modeled after Wensleydale and captures the charm of that cheese at its finest. The producers of Bartlett Blue are Jasper Hill Farms of Vermont and they know how to craft complex and delicious cheese.

Name: Bartlett Blue
Type of Milk: cow's, unpasteurized
Type: semi-soft, blue
Produced in: United States of America, Vermont, Greensboro, Jasper Hill Farms
Date Purchased: 10/09/2007
Date Eaten: 10/11/2007
Purchased Where: online, www.artisanalcheese.com
Price: $22.00/lb.

Posted on October 23, 2007 9:15 AM | | Comments (20) | TrackBacks (13)

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