Dense, crystalline Dutch Gouda with deep caramel sweetness and a peppery bite that earns its pittig name.
Five-year aged Dutch Gouda, dense and crystalline with deep caramel, butterscotch, and toasted hazelnut. Ships to 48 states.
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Five-year aged Gouda from the Netherlands, labeled pittig, which is Dutch for sharp, the term reserved for the longest-aged wheels in this style. The exterior is golden and caramelized, a tell that the paste has spent serious time in the aging room concentrating its flavor.
Cut into the wheel and the paste is dense, dry, and crystalline, scattered with tiny crunchy tyrosine crystals that pop between the teeth. The flavor is deep and sweet, with pronounced caramel and butterscotch on the palate, toasted hazelnut and browned butter through the middle, and a slow peppery tingle on the back end that earns the pittig name.
Shave it thin off the wedge and let those crystals carry the bite.
Dense and hard with tiny crunchy tyrosine crystals scattered through the paste, snaps cleanly off the wedge rather than yielding.
Big assertive flavor up front, deep caramelized sweetness with a savory salt-driven pull underneath, a true pittig (sharp) Gouda.
Long, sweet, butterscotch finish that lingers for 30 seconds or more, with the salt building slowly behind it.
Five years of aging has dried out most of the fresh milk character, almost no yogurty or buttery lactic note left.
Heavy browned-butter and toasted hazelnut through the middle, the kind of deep nutty pull you only get from very long-aged Goudas.
A faint dried-hay note in the background, but the caramel and nut character dominates over anything earthy.
A gentle sharp tingle on the back of the palate, the pittig bite that gives this cheese its name, peppery without burning.
Waxed rind
Rind is wax, inedible.
Gouda stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.
The deep caramelized sweetness and crystalline crunch want a drink with matching brown-sugar depth, fortified wines and barrel-aged spirits hit that note cleanly.
Crunchy, caramel-sweet aged Gouda pairs naturally with crisp fruit and sticky-sweet condiments, the sugar in the cheese leans into the sugar on the board.
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Hand-cut to order the day it ships. Packed cold for overnight delivery.
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