Garrotxa
Cheese
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Garrotxa is a Catalan pressed goat's-milk cheese capped by a soft, velvety grey-blue natural rind of wild mould. Its bright-white, firm-but-supple paste is mild, milky and gently nutty, with a clean lactic tang and a faint herbal, mushroomy note drawn from the bloom that coats the wheel.
Picking a good onedrag
Firm ivory paste, velvety grey rindStray mould, sour, harsh ammonia
Older wedgeEveryday bestNuttier, earthier and a little drier, the rind a darker suede-grey. That is age in the cellar, not decline. Good with quince paste and walnuts.
The rindFlatter, suede-like dark grey coat, dry to the touch
The cut faceIvory, a shade darker near the rind, slicing cleanly
Smell once unwrappedNuttier and earthier, the goaty tang more present