We made our second trip to the Cheese Cave in Claremont this week. We love it; we want our own cheese cave. We were looking for a soft cheese to pair with our Creminelli salami, and they recommended the Cana de Oveja.
A new addition to our cheese-tasting adventures
The Cana is a soft sheep's milk cheese with three distinct layers...a brie-esque (for lack of a more precise term) rind, then a creamy ring, then a more chalky center. The center doesn't taste dry, but it certainly has the dry texture, and as the cheese ages this chalky center gets smaller. Our specimen was aged about 3-4 weeks. It was a great cheese to pair with our salami and French honey balsamic mustard. My favorite thing about it was how the three layers combined to give you three variations on the same flavor as you ate it.
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