Burrata is a cheese originally from Apulia in Italy. This one has nice summer truffle taste. It can be tasted fresh with a touch of salt and pepper or more mature as the mozzarella.
Gorgonzola is a soft, creamy Italian blue cheese that is a member of the Stracchino family of cheeses. Gorgonzola originated in the town of the same name near Milan, Italy in the 8th century. Prior to being called Gorgonzola, the cheese was generically called “green stracchino”. By 1970, a Consortium for the protection of Gorgonzola cheese was created in order to protect and oversee the production of Gorgonzola. In 1996, Gorgonzola was granted PDO (Designation of Protected Origin) status, which governs how and where Gorgonzola is produced in either the Piedmont or Lombardy regions of Italy.
Tour Guyotte is a raw goats’ milk cheese from Burgundy. It’s a soft, mossy, spring goat cheese covered either with silvery green or rusty orange tinged molds. It’s named after the Guyotte, a small river in the Saône-et-Loire department of the Bourgogne region, and a tributary to the Doubs and, ultimately the Rhône.
Although much imitated everywhere, production of Camembert originated in Normandy, France, invented in 1791 by Marie Harel. The name “Camembert de Normandie” is protected under AOC rules that were grantd in 1983, meaning that cheeses bearing this name have to be made according to specific guidelines.
Origin: France; Normandy
Piece of 250g Best before: 1 week after the delivery
Comté was one of the first few kinds of cheese to receive an AOC (Appellation d’origine controlee) status in 1958. It is one of the most popular AOC cheeses in France with around 40,000 tonnes of annual production. This Millesime version is aged for 36 months !
