Crema De Blue
November 6th, 2008 | by tb |
Valley Shepherd Creamery’s Crema De Blue was finally (!!!) at the Fair Food Farmstand in Reading Terminal. I’ve been looking forward to trying this cheese after having Valley Shepherd’s Bababloo.
Crema De Blue is a raw, mixed-milk (cow and goat) blue cheese that has been cave aged. It has a thin, natural rind. The interior is white to slightly off-white (which didn’t show up well in the photo I took) with a semi-soft texture that melts in your mouth. The aroma is slightly pungent. The taste was tangy, spicy, salty, and buttery, but all within moderation. None of these typical blue cheese characteristics dominated the other. This was a very balanced and elegant blue cheese.
This cheese definitely didn’t last long. It went down way too fast, even though you would catch yourself savoring each bite for a long time. This was an interesting comparison to Bababloo. I liked both equally as much. Bababloo being a spicy, more in your face blue cheese, while Crema De Blue was more balanced elegance.
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