Reviews tagged: Hard
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Comte (Marks and Spencer)
POSTED BY JOE ON DECEMBER 8, 2020
There are many strong traditions when it comes to French cheesemaking, and very few French cheeses are held in higher regard than Comte. As the second type of cheese to receive AOC designation and pro...
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Gouda with red pesto, fenugreek and Italian herbs (Villa Rosso)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 7, 2020
This cheese is a conventional (“ legacy “) cow’s milk Gouda, bafflingly infused with red pesto, fenugreek, and perhaps other herbs. Phil and Pez bought this cheese purely on the basis of its rosy fest...
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Gruyere (Tesco Finest Swiss Reserve)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 5, 2020
A raucous and rambunctious hard cheese, this is a tasty delight given sufficient pre-consumption warming to develop its full taste. Gruyère shines as a winsome, nutty contrast to the heavier flavours ...
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Double Gloucester with Onion & Chives (Lidl Valley Spire)
POSTED BY LOUIS JOHN BRZOZKA ON DECEMBER 4, 2020
Flavoured cheeses are divisive. We have found this to be true over years of cheese nights. Some, like Chilli-flavoured cheeses, have caused arguments over the years and remain the only cheeses to scor...
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Coastal Bite Ingot Truckle (Tesco Finest)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 3, 2020
I cannot deny I bought this simply because it was termed “a cheese ingot”. I am never one to turn down cheese marketed in the same terms as gold bullion; once again, I was not disappointed. This chees...
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Goat’s Milk Gouda (Marks and Spencer)
POSTED BY PEZ ON DECEMBER 2, 2020
Goat’s Milk Gouda is a non-standard twist on the Dutch classic Gouda, made with goat’s milk instead of the usual cow’s milk. It is a hard, whitish-yellow cheese with a waxy rind. Phil and Pez ate this...
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Ossau-Iraty (Marks and Spencer)
POSTED BY JOE ON DECEMBER 1, 2020
When we started preparing the more in-depth and regularly scheduled cheese reviews for the website, prior to my first shopping trip, I took the opportunity to look back at my cheese scores over the ye...
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The Twelve Days of Cheesemas
POSTED BY PHILIP ON DECEMBER 1, 2020
There are many things to celebrate at Christmas. While the evenings may be dark; the world convulsed with relentless geopolitical upheaval; lockdowns and restrictions keeping friends and family apart,...
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Gruyere (Lidl ‘Deluxe’ Reserve)
POSTED BY LOUIS JOHN BRZOZKA ON NOVEMBER 29, 2020
Christmas is a wonderful time of year for cheese and the expanded selection on offer at Lidl prompted a mini-cheese night with the family featuring 6 of the cheeses you can pick up right now! We start...
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Lincolnshire Poacher (Marks & Spencer)
POSTED BY PEZ ON NOVEMBER 28, 2020
Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard, Cheddar-like English cheese. The texture is firm, brittle and crumbly, the colour golden-yellow, and the rind complex and variegated. It is an unpasteurised cow’s milk ...
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