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3 Gateway Blues: Blue Cheeses You Might Actually Like

3 Gateway Blues - Blue Cheeses You Might Like - Cheese Origin

Most people I meet are not into the spicy, salty, piquant, tongue-popping qualities of blue cheeses.

Many heard horror stories from their friends and don’t even dare to take a bite themselves.

Well, maybe you despise blue cheeses too.

But here’s a truth…

There’s a milder, friendlier and smoother blue cheese available that will expand your palate and invite you to experience a whole new world of cheese.

Also read: How to ‘Taste’ Cheese Through the Nose

1. Bleu d’Auvergne

Country of Origin: France
Region: Auvergne
Milk type: Cow
Texture: Soft
AOP: 1975

This is the ultimate ‘gateway blue’: Bleu d’Auvergne

Bleu d’Auvergne are cultured with P. glaucum, which gives the cheese its sweet, nutty and chocolatey tastes.

2. Cambozola

Country of Origin: Germany
Region: Allgäu
Milk Type: Cow
Texture: Soft

Shopping at the supermarket? No problem, the next-in-line gateway blue is Cambozola – a hybrid of Camembert and Gorgonzola.

Cambozola has the lush texture and tense buttery flavors of a ripe bloomy with only intermittent blue mold.

This is a relatively affordable blue cheese so if you absolutely resent it, you can give it away at minimum cost to you.

igourmet German Cambozola Cheese - Pound Cut (15.5 ounce)
igourmet German Cambozola Cheese - Pound Cut (15.5 ounce)
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3. Dolcelatte

Country: Italy
Region: Lombardia
Milk type: Cow
Texture: Soft

Dolcelatte is a blue-veined Italian soft cheese. Its name literally means ‘Sweet milk’. Sounds pleasant right?

The first thing you are going to taste when you take a bite is its natural sweetness followed by a hint of peppery and lactic spice taste in split seconds.

Tip:
Allow this cheese to gradually melt in your mouth and notice the flavor process from sweet to peppery to lactic in matter of seconds.

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