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A medium-matured pecorino, cave-aged for around 3 to 4 months. It is made with milk from sheep grazing in the National park of Cilento and the Valley of Diano. The flavour is balanced and gentle – slightly sweet, nutty, grassy flavours coming from the rich sheep’s milk with a mild, savoury finish. A delicious pecorino to serve on cheese platters, enjoy with a glass of Rosé or Pinot Noir. From artisan cheese-makers and affineurs Casa Madaio.
Region: Campania, Italy
Milk: Sheep
Size: approx 250g wedge cut to order
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Drunken Cheese Selection
There is a long history of coating cheese with grapes and maturing cheese in wine in Italy. We import a number of these specialty ‘drunken cheeses’, most of which are made by hand in small quantities. This is a selection of the most popular and includes:
- 4 premiun Italian Wine soaked hard cheeses 180g/200g each
- A packet of Mario Fongo Mini Lingue 100g
- Gift Hamper Box $10 extra – please select your preference below from ‘Options’
NB: Each cheese is cut approximately at 180g/200g. If an advertised cheese is not available, a similar cheese will be substituted. Wooden board, fruit, accompaniments and other equipment including knives and wine glasses shown in picture not included.
La Tur (3 milk robiola) Cow Goat Sheep
One of our most popular cheeses! The combination of 3 milk types creates a unique flavour that is gentle, but incredibly rich and creamy. The texture is thick and fudgey, with some runny patches under the thin, white rind – absolutely divine!
Region: Piedmont, Italy
Milk Type: Pasteurised Cow/Goat/Sheep
Size: Approx 200g each
Whole Trebbione Pecorino Gift Box
Love your pecorino? Buy a whole wheel of Trebbione – a mature Tuscan pecorino coated with hay, and receive complimentary: 3 Mini Accompaniments.
Contains:
Whole wheel of Trebbione Pecorino (approx 2.5kg)
3 x Mini Accompaniments
All packed in a wooden cheese box with ribbon.
RegioThe cheese: Just one smell, one taste of this pecorino and you will be transported to the gentle, grassy hills of Tuscany. It is matured wrapped in dried hay, which imparts an extra flavour to the cheese. The taste is long and rich – nutty, grassy and sweet with hints of lanoline coating the end palate. Enjoy with a glass of your favourite red wine.
Region: Tuscany, Italy
Milk: Sheep
English Cheddar Cave Matured
A classic British cloth-bound cheddar – big and bitey with a hint of cultured butter on the finish. The cloth covering allows the cheese to breath during maturation, creating that distinctive open, crumbly texture. Enjoy with a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon.
Wookey Hole Cave Aged Cheddar is a traditional PDO cheddar made on the Ashley Chase Estate in the heart of West Dorset.
The key ingredient for this unique cheddar is the highest quality rich milk sourced from dairy cows that graze the lush pastures of the surrounding countryside. The cheese is made to traditional methods by a highly skilled team of cheese makers. Each stage of the process is performed by hand, from the turning of the curds to the wrapping of each truckle in cheesecloth.
The Cheddars are then taken to the Somerset Caves to mature naturally in an environment which ensures they remain mouth wateringly moist and packed full of the distinctive, earthy and nutty flavours of the Caves.
Wookey Hole Cave Aged Cheddar is the only PDO traditional West Country Farmhouse Cheddar to be matured in Caves.
Region: Somerset, England
Milk: Pasteurised Cow
Size: approx 250g wedge cut to order
Pecorino in Grotta
This full-flavoured pecorino is matured the traditional way – on pine boards in a stone cellar, known as a grotta. It is also coated with hay when it is young to protect the cheese and to add a deep, complex grassy flavour that compliments the rich, buttery flavours of the sheep’s milk. The cheese develops a subtle savoury bite. It is smooth and even on the tongue, coating the entire palate with the flavours of the Tuscan countryside.
Region: Tuscany, Italy
Milk: Sheep
Size: approx 250g wedge cut to order
Stracco di Capra
This cheese is a goat’s milk version of Taleggio. It has the same pungent, savoury rind but the goat’s milk adds a unique twist to the flavour – creamy with an underlying floral note and subtle lactic finish. Under the rosy rind the interior is smooth and creamy and melts in your mouth.
Region: Lombardy, Italy
Milk: Pasteurised Goat
Size: approx 250g wedge cut to order
Tennerone Tre Latte
This brie-style cheese has an incredibly smooth, unctuous texture that coats your entire palate and a rich flavour with an amazing length and depth. Notes from all 3 milk types marry together – milky, creamy, subtly nutty, grassy – absolutely delicious. The wrinkly rind contributes a light earthy flavour that may become more pronounced as the cheese matures.
Region: Piedmont, Italy
Milk: Pasteurised Cow/Goat/Sheep blend
Size: approx 250G cut to order
Occelli al Barolo
Cheese royalty meets wine royalty – once you taste this cheese you will be hooked! Full flavoured ‘testun’ cheeses are coated with the pressed grapes used to make Barolo wine – the flavours of the cheese and grapes mingle together to create a flavour that is bitey, creamy, sweet, winey, buttery and sharp all at once (testun loosely translates to ‘hard-headed’, referring to the texture of the cheese). Once you cut through the coating of crushed grapes, the texture is flaky and melt-in-your mouth soft.
Region: Piedmont, Italy
Milk: Pasteurised Cow & Goat blend
Size: approx 250g wedge cut to order
Délice des Deux-Sèvre Cendree
A semi-matured goat’s cheese from the Loire Valley in France. Picked by Affineurs from the cheese maker 10 days after making, Délice des Deux-Sèvre Cendree will spend a few extra weeks maturing nicely Traditionally ashed Délice des Deux-Sèvre Cendree has a oozy texture under the rind with a slightly chalky center. The clean citrusy and goat flavour pairs well with local a sauvignon blanc.
Region: Poitou-Charentes, France
Milk: Pasteurised Goat
Size: approx 150g each
Bitto DOP
Bitto is a rare cheese produced in alpine pastures in the summer months. All Bitto is made in the artisan manner with techniques dating back to the seventeenth century. It is made with a blend of approximately 90% cow’s milk and 10% goat’s milk and aged a minimum of 1 year, usually longer. The flavour is deep with a pleasant tangy bite to finish.
Region: Lombardy, Italy
Milk: Cow/Goat Blend
Size: approx 250g wedge, cut to order
