Brand: None listed
Place of Purchase: Wegman's in Clay, NY
Country of Origin: France
Price in New York: $12.99/lb.
Milk: Goat
Processing: Ripened goat cheese pressed into logs and covered with cultures. Sliced into rounds when mature (between 5 to 10 weeks).
Texture: soft to semi-firm
Color: cream white to bone white
Rind: Bloom
Aroma: mild dairy
Taste: mild goat. Tart. buttery
Mouth-feel: Creamy near the rind, crumbly towards the center
Notes: Bucheron is named after the the lumberjack, since it is pressed into logs and cut into rounds. This is another nice cheese that everyone in Europe knows about, but I have never tried. This cheese combines the crumbly texture and flavors of a goat cheese, with the silky paste of a double-cream cheese. Towards the center of the round, there is a mild goat cheese similar to chevre. However, around the edges near the rind the cheese becomes more fluid. The flavor of this cheese is also mild, but the mouth-feel is downright decadent. The round that I got was fairly young, so I only had a thin layer of the creamy cheese. Try and select a round that has a thicker section of cream-colored cheese near the rind.
