Our Classes

June 8, 2006

Place Taste & Sustenance

Classes Label

  1. Goat's Milk

    Twig Farm - West Cornwall, Vermont

    Goat milk from the granite laden fields of the New York-Vermont border. Earthy, creamy, nutty and flint flavors make this cheese a complex wheel worthy of being compared to Catalonian tomes.

    St Maure de Touraine - Loire, France

    Fresh, milky, lemony goat milk from the clean, lush fields of Northern France. Covered in rendered vegetable ash, this log can age to a perfect goat butter stick with a lemon rind finish.

    Beer: Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat

  2. Cow's Milk

    Comte Marcel Petite Le Fort - Jura, France

    18-24 month old cow's milk aged in a former munitions cave. Nutty sweet and complex with French onion soup flavors.

    Caseum Maiorum - Piedmont, Italy

    Made with the milk of the original "Red Cow" grazed only on alpine grass. This unique cheese has a biscuity consistency when young and softens with age with a characteristic limestone flavor.

    Wine: Gruner Veltliner
    Pairing: Mostarda

  3. Sheep's Milk

    Brebis Ossau AOC - Pyrenees, France

    Classic, high altitude sheep's milk aged at least six months. It is nutty, creamy and dense in texture with a damp wool flavor finish.

    Pecorino Morchiato - Pienza, Italy

    Grass fed aged sheep's milk aged three months and rubbed with walnut-olive oil paste. A style that originated in Sardinia, this wheel is dry textured and full of almond and sharp provolone flavors.

    Beer: Cream Stout or Chocolate Bock
    Pairing: Black Cherry Jam of the Pyrenees

  4. Blue Cheese

    Roquefort Carles - Roquefort, France

    The father of blue cheeses and possibly the first cheese known to man, this cave aged AOC sheep's milk blue is pungent & creamy, using rye bread to produce the blue-ing agent penicilium roqueforte.

    Queso Azul de Valdeon - Valdeon, Spain

    Cow and Goat's milk blue wrapped in Plain tree leaves. Dry, crumbly, super spicy with bitter green vegetable flavor on the finish.

    Beer: Black Lager
    Pairing: Lo Brusc Acacia Honey