Alt: Calling all Turophiles - name this cheese!
Here's one for the cheese cognoscenti if they're about. A couple of weeks back I went to a pal's BBQ and they had a collection of cheeses. At the end they still had a load left including a chunk of one they didn't want (mad fools!) so we took it and polished it off post haste. Can't remember if they told us what it was (the memory is a little fogged by dint of my being on the outside of most of a bottle of Plymouth Original).

It was roughly half-way between a blue-veined Brie and a Port-Salut, complete with slightly rubbery but edible salted rind. It was from a round-edged wheel rather than the square edges of Fontina or Taleggio. Can't find any reference to blue Port-Salut either ... anyone got any ideas?
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:22, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Not a clue but if you find out let me know, sounds like a good one.
I've just nommed some rather tasty Bleu D'Avergne.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:27, Reply)

Hmm. Do you have any idea which country it might have come from?
If it's British, then blue veins and a rubbery texture bring something like a Shropshire Blue to mind.

The other giveaway might be how salty it was - normally I find French blue cheeses have a much sharper saltiness than British.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:38, Reply)

I'd have guessed French or Italian.
It was like a very mild Shropshire Blue, and fairly close to it in colour, but with a port-salut-esque texture.

My search continues ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:42, Reply)

Ah, wasn't something in the same vein* as a Dolce Latte, was it?


*_{No pun intended, I swear...}
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:47, Reply)

No, definitely a round-edge rind wheel-type cheese but not a million miles away on the flavour I reckon.
Please don't start with the cheese puns, we'll have Jeff hiding small horses before you know it and then it'll all kick off ...
(BrianHequator was stretching owls, on, or around, Wed 18 May 2011, 13:56, Reply)

St Agur?

(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 18 May 2011, 14:09, Reply)