Prom Country is the sheep's cheese range now produced by Red Hill, and the Woolamai Mist is a very one of the better locally made brie style cheese that I've come across. It was so good it could have ben mistaken for French. We were lucky enough to get a perfectly ripe rectangle of the stuff that was enveloped in a soft white rind, the inside was rich and oozy.
Wollamai Mist had a balanced flavour of buttery saltiness that meant it was devoured by us and the kids far too quickly. Better get some more I guess.
My only quibble is with the geographic confusion in the branding of the cheese. So Red Hill is on Mornington Peninsular and makes a range of cheeses called Prom country which must be a reference to Wilson's Prom and then the cheese is named after Woolamai which (whether its the cape on Phillip Island or the area inland of San Remo is unclear) is in neither Prom nor Peninsular.
Perhaps they should settle on one spot? Perhaps I should just eat the cheese and not think about it so much.
Thanks again Bill's Farm.
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ReplyDeleteHey Jarrod I'm glad you had a great experience with the Woolamai Mist. Well done on getting the name right. The Gippsland names reflect the origin of my milk. While our sheep dairy farm at Moyarra is in the 'Prom Country' region, from the top of the Moyarra hill you can see all the way down to Phillip Island. The white bloom on Woolamai Mist represents sea mist and fog we often see down there. As a sheep farmer I could not go past a Wool-related name!
ReplyDeleteThe new labels also pre-empt the opening of our new cellar door on the farm in 2014. We will look forward to seeing you there someday and serving up our sheep cheese in Prom Country.