My Favorite Cheeses Paired with Cultivar Wine

Have I mentioned how much I love wine and cheese? Final Sunday I set out on a mission to assemble a platter of my favorite cheeses, along with the ultimate food and wine pairings.

I went to one of my favorite cheese shops and purchased a few of my favorites, along with a couple suggestions from the cheese monger. I try to follow certain rules when assembling a cheese lath. Traditionally, a cheese board should have hard and soft cheeses, cow's milk, sheep's milk, and goat's milk cheeses, and a blue cheese. This time I skipped the blue cheese because I didn't desire anything that would over power the wine.

Anybody loves a classic cheddar and Jasper Loma Farm Cabot Textile Bound Cheddar is one of the best. Information technology's creamy and precipitous, and it is savory flavors at their absolute best. I always include a goat cheese on a cheese plate, and my favorite is Cypress Grove Humboldt Fog. Information technology'due south tangy caprine animal cheese with a layer of vegetable ash. The cheese monger recommended UnieKass Robusto from Kingdom of the netherlands, a gouda that tastes ten times improve than every other gouda I have tried. It'southward slightly nutty and salty, and information technology paired beautifully with the rosemary crackers.

Charles loved the Forager d'Affinois Guilloteau double creme brie. For some reason I thought that triple creme brie was the way to go, and that I what we take e'er bought, but the double creme brie tasted like cheesy buttery goodness. We spread this on pieces of fresh baguette.

My favorite cheese was one that the cheese monger recommended: Petit Basque Sheeps Milk Istara. Information technology is sometimes compared to Manchego, a more well known cheese from the aforementioned region, but Istara is a scrap softer than Manchego, and it is creamier and has a nuttier season profile. This was keen paired with fig jam.

I served my cheese board with two of Cultivar'due south wines. Cultivar is a Napa Valley winery and I am part of their blogger programme. I dear that while they produce top quality Napa Valley wine, it'south still affordable – their wines range from $12 – $72 a bottle retail. And as a reader of The Kittchen, you can use this code "CultivarWineTheKittchen"for a ten% savings when you order Cultivar vino.

I absolutely loved the 2013 Oak Knoll Cabernet Franc. It's a medium bodied wine with some jammy fruit flavors that are counterbalanced out with hints of pepper and tobacco. I idea it paired beautifully with the earthier Petit Basque Sheeps Milk Istara. The 2013 Leaky Lake Cabernet Sauvignon is a bit bolder and more than tannic and I enjoyed it paired with the cheddar and the robusto.

With enough wine and cheese to feed a small regular army we proceeded to feast while watching Tangled (nosotros love a skilful Disney film). It was the perfect way to spend a Sunday evening.

I received vino from Cultivar Wine as part of this collaboration.

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