#59 Hagenbutten-Kase by Rolf Beeler

First a little bit about Rolf Beeler, an Affineur (French for "bloke what ages cheese") from Switzerland who champions small artisan cheese producers. This guy is responsible for many of the great imported mountain cheeses available in Australia.
Now the cheese - yes it has the word butt in it. But that's really unimportant.
The Hagenbutten-Kase has a creamy gruyere-like aroma and is speckled with rose hips. It has an amazing looking rind - dark, thick, speckled and mouldy and inside its marked with specks of orange through the pale yellow interior. The flavour was caramel and nutty.


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