Selles-Sur-Cher

Rennet: Animal

Milk: Pasteurized Goat's Milk

Cheese: Type 1, Subcatagory Loire Chevre

Related: St. Maure, Crottin Du Champcol, Valencay, Chabicou de Poitou

Origin: Made By Fromagerie Jaquin, in the Cher, Indre, and Loire-et-Cher, Loire Valley, France.

Age: 2-3 Weeks

Story: When the moors were forced out of France, they left behind goats and recepies for cheese. In the Loire, the tradition stuck, and blossomed as every village made its own local speciality, in hundreds of shapes and sizes. Selles-sur-Cher is a small disc shaped round. The cheese is coated in ash to encourage mold development on the rind. Stinky Bklyn aquires the cheese at about 1 week of age, and ages the cheese another 1-2 weeks. We look for the cheese to be denser and chalkier, and to develop a salty, flinty, goaty backbone to counter the naturally tart flavor of the cheese.

Pairings: Sauvignon Blanc, Rhone reds, and Cabernet Franc. Also excellent with Hungarian Tokaji, and Off Dry wines from Anjou.

$10.00 per piece