Tasting Notes
Feb 14, 2018
Lamb Chopper - Left of centre
Sometimes something pops up that just seems a little weird.Like, say, a wheel of cheese emblazoned with a sheep riding amotorbike. Yep, that’s right, that is how Lamb Chopper ispresented. But then again it is Dutch, so that kind of makes itokay.
Feb 14, 2018
Coolea - From a hobby to a world winner
It’s interesting how many people leave one life behind to slowthings down, take a more quiet path and look for bliss. In 1979,Helene & Dick Willems left Holland to make cheese, as a hobby, inthe Coolea Mountains of County Cork, Ireland.
Feb 9, 2018
Milawa Blue - The cornerstone of a legend
Just imagine, you’re a teacher and your husband is in AppliedScience. A school friend consoles you every time over copiousamounts of wine to create the best Cheese Factory in Victoria,Australia, The World! Yet what do you know about cheesemaking?
Feb 7, 2018
D’affinois Bleu -The Bleu for all
Quite easily, the good folk at Fromagerie Guilloteau would beconsidered pioneers in forging new ways of making cheese.Unlike the traditional ‘curds and whey’ approach of cheese
Feb 7, 2018
Barely Buzzed - The rub of the cheese...
Ah Utah. State of beards, barn raising and, well, Mormons. Notthe sort of place you associate with any of the libertine pleasuresthat many of us cheese-aholics indulge in from day to day
Feb 7, 2018
Comté - Grand Cru of Cheese
Comté is truly the elder statesman of French cheese being oneof the first styles to receive AOC status back in 1958.This unpasteurised cheese is not made in a traditional way, witha fromagerie producing or buying local milk and turning it intocheese themselves, but is similar to the Burgundian negociantmethod of wine production – essentially co-operative farming.
Feb 7, 2018
Manchego - The snack of Don Quixote
Back in the seventeenth century, Miguel de Cervantes pennedhis famous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha. Already apopular food at that time, witty squire Sancho Panza and thefantasy knight Don Quixote spent much time nibbling onManchego while washing it down with copious amounts of LaMancha wines.
Feb 7, 2018
Petite brebis pimento - Think about it all day long
In a world of “striving for better”, technology and secondguessing consumer tastes, it’s refreshing to find a cheese anda region that remains true to tradition and 4,000 years ofusing the same recipe....
Feb 7, 2018
Raclette - Perhaps the World’s Best
Here at Cheese Therapy, we like to promote the small guys, thecool finds and stuff that you just can’t buy. We search for storiesof cheesemakers, history and quirk. And then we have HeidiFarm’s Raclette...
Feb 7, 2018
San Simon - A Hotly Debated Cheese
For years, the origin and shape of this cheese has been hotlydebated. Although nobody really knows the true origins,arguments still continue with some believing this cheese datesback to Roman times....
Feb 7, 2018
Aphrodite Haloumi - From the Greek goddess of love
The Mediterranean island of Cyprus is best known as the birthplaceof Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, as well as haloumi. Datingback thousands of years, haloumi was first created by nomadicshepherds to preserve the island’s milk supplies in Spring
Feb 7, 2018
D’affinois Excellence - The cheese equivalent to Twister
In the not so distant past of 1981, a backyard cheese maker ina small French town decided to approach cheesemaking in anentirely different way...