This year, spoil your awesome Mom with the ultimate Mother’s Day cheese plate. Without a doubt, our selection of 5 world-class cheeses will make every cheese loving mother feel the love on their special day.
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1 La Tur
Let’s start our Mother’s Day cheese plate with one of the most decadent soft cheeses in the world, La Tur. La Tur is an incredibly unctuous white bloomy mould cheese that originates from the Piemonte region of northern Italy. In Alta Langa, a local cheesemaker called Caseificio dell’Alta Langa make this little gem with a mixture of three milks: cow, sheep and goat.
When you put together its smooth, buttery texture and its rich creamy flavour with a touch of earthiness, you have yourself a cheese that any Mom will love!
2 Selles-sur-Cher
Next, we have a soft goat’s milk cheese that comes from France’s Loire Valley. Selles-sur-Cher is a raw milk cheese made in the Cher Valley using local goat’s milk. The rich soil in the valley produces a sweet hay that influences the flavour of the local milk. As a result, the cheese that is made in the area tends to have a natural sweetness.
And, this sweetness makes Selles-sur-Char a great gateway cheese for even the uninitiated. Is Mom not a fan of goat’s cheeses? Trust me, this is the one that will win her over!
3 Gruyère
Undoubtedly, Gruyère is Switzerland’s most famous cheese. This traditional pressed cooked cheese is made to this day using only raw cow’s milk by a select number of artisans. Overall, its maturation can last from 6 months to 24 months.
In fact, the older the Gruyère, the more pronounced its flavours are. Having said that, at any age, you can expect an explosion of flavour ranging from sweet and nutty to aromatic and brothy. Overall, this is the kind of cheese that knocks Mom’s socks off!
4 L’Amuse Signature Gouda
The next cheese on our list is a matured, hard cheese from North Holland, Netherlands. L’Amuse Signature Gouda is a pressed uncooked cheese matured by Betty Koster at Fromagerie L’Amuse in IJmuiden.
Matured for 24 months, L’Amuse Signature Gouda has an incredible depth of flavour and a hard, crunchy texture that still melts in your mouth. Furthermore, its flavour palette includes notes of salted caramel and roasted hazelnuts. And, its bright orange paste is peppered with tiny crystals and melds crunch with a creamy mouthfeel.
5 Stilton
Finally, round up the ultimate Mother’s Day cheese plate with what is undeniably the greatest blue cheese to come out of the United Kingdom. Stilton is a traditional cow’s milk blue cheese that is exclusively made by small dairies in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
Blue Stilton has a trademark buttery texture that will melt in your mouth. On the palate, it is full-bodied and has a mellow fruity and savoury complexity. This is definitely a blue cheese for a Mother who wants a little bit of adventure and excitement in her life.
Give Mom the cheese she deserves
So, there you have our recommendations for the ultimate Mother’s Day cheese plate. Indeed, our five cheeses come from 5 different countries, and are made with 3 different milks. When selecting the cheeses, we aimed for the perfect balance of aroma, texture and flavour.
What cheeses will you be serving this Mother’s Day? Drop us a comment below.
