Sunday, February 25, 2007

Ashgrove Farm Traditional Cloth Matured Cheddar


Taste

This signature cheese from Ashgrove Farm is very labour intensive, requiring constant rubbing and turning, and has won a string of awards, including a gold medal and named Champion Cheddar of the 2002 Royal Hobart Show.

For all of that, I found it quite easy to melt, but it is a bit salty to be used as just an eating cheese. It tastes nice in a melt but I wouldn't eat it as is. The texture is quite hard and not crumbly, it doesn't quite melt in the mouth. There is a hint, but only very slight, of nuttiness to it. The cloth does give it a different flavour which I quite like.

Rating - 6.5

Look

Beautiful in its cloth bound ashy outer layer, I'm afraid it's a case of looks over function. All Ashgrove farm cheese are usually sold vacuum sealed instead of cut from the wheels.

Rating - 2

C-factor

$26/kg from the factory, it's their most expensive product, one I think is not really worth the money.

Rating - 0

Swiss Points - 8.5

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