Enjoy a virtual cheese tasting from the comfort of your own home. We will send you a cheese box containing five cheeses and email you a video link. Max Melvin, our Senior Cheesemonger, will talk you through the cheeses we have selected and why they are particularly good at this time of year. A great way to spend an evening!
The Cheese Box will contain:
- 5 x 80g (approx.) of artisan cheeses (unless small individual unit)
- Two packets of La Fromagerie Biscuits for Cheese
- Set of Tasting Notes
Max Melvin has chosen five fabulous cheeses for you to enjoy throughout Spring:
CHABICHOU, POITOU-CHARENTES | Unpasteurised Goat's Milk - Half a unit.
A soft, fresh tasting cheese, shaped like a gently tapered cylinder. The texture is smooth yet quite close-textured. Produced traditionally with a lovely aromatic rind.
ST JUDE, SUFFOLK | Unpasteurised Cow's Milk - I unit
The milk is slowly & gently turned into curds with little intervention - simply lifting the curds & ladling into moulds, turning daily until ready for sale.
SALERS, AUVERGNE | Unpasteurised Cow's Milk
A semi-hard uncooked pressed cheese with a dry natural rind scattered with red and orange patches. The pate is a rich golden colour. Made by one of only several remaining producers in extremely small batches in wooden vats, this a farmhouse cheese in the truest sense.
GUBBEEN, COUNTY CORK | Unpasteurised cow's milk
The micro climate of this region produces some fine examples of washed rind cheeses, & this one is no exception. Giana Ferguson’s cheese is made with pasteurised cow’s milk now using vegetable rennet, but still has the supple springy texture, with the wrinkled washed rind quite firm to the touch.
REGALIS, MIDI-PYRÉNÉES | Thermised Ewe Milk
The mountain caves of the Midi-Pyrénées straddle the border with Spain, and while this blue is somewhat like Roquefort, the distinction is the wax coating, allowing the sweet milky whey to remain in the cheese, softening the sharp minerality into a richer, sweeter, and floral taste.
We have chosen the perfect wines to accompany this board. See below under Pairs Great With.
When placing your order, please select a delivery date that is ideally 2 days before you are planning to enjoy the tasting. When your order is dispatched we will send you a pre-recorded cheese tutorial by WeTransfer, please download, check it is the correct recording, and store until you are ready to begin the tasting. The link will expire in 3-5 days of receipt. Do also check your spam folder.
La Fromagerie reserves the right to make substitutions if necessary without prior notice.
If you have not received the box by 11am the day before your tasting email us and we will do our best to track the package.
Please note the image of the cheeseboard shows whole or larger pieces of cheese that you will receive. These images are for marketing purposes only and are not indicative of the size of cheeses you will receive.
