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Cheese & Champagne
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One Year, One Hundred Cheeses. Two friends tasting their way through the Wine Spectator "100 Great Cheeses" list.
Recent Posts
Happy Thanksgiving from Cheese+Champagne!
A cornucopia of cheese! My family was never one in which we all went around the table and said what were thankful for that year. Truthfully, I always thought that tradition was kind of cheesy. But since this is a cheese blog, Colleen and I thought i...
Buy ‘The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin’ Today!
My friends and Heavy Table colleagues Jim Norton and Becca Dilley have a new book all about my favorite subject – cheese! More accurately, it’s about Wisconsin’s master cheesemakers (like the Obi-Wans of cheese) and it is awesome. Y...
Cave-Aged Gruyère, Switzerland
Do you know how you can make a good cheese taste even better? Let it sit out on the counter overnight. That’s what ol’ preggo brain here did last night, and the outcome wasn’t bad like I had feared. Actually, it makes sense –...
Trugole, Italy
Don’t be surprised if you haven’t heard of Trugole before. I hadn’t, but now I’m glad I found it. This Alpine cheese is made in Italy’s Asiago region – ah! you say, I’ve heard of Asiago – but it’...
Fat Toad Farm {Vermont Road Trip Redux}
Last week, the Martha Stewart show aired an episode focused entirely on cheese — cheese from Vermont, to be precise. Emeril has been to Vermont recently as well. We’re tickled to see the celebrities discover what we discovered ages ago (y...
Morbier, France
I recently read an article (don’t ask me to remember where) that compared Morbier to Humboldt Fog. Naturally, I was intrigued since my love for the Fog is well-documented. But it turns out that the only thing the two cheeses have in common is ...

