Gentle California goat cheese with fresh tang and delicate bloomy rind.
Cavatina is a small bloomy-rind goat cheese from Andante Dairy in Petaluma, California. Soft, lactic, lightly mushroomy. Order online.
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Cavatina is a small, bloomy-rinded goat's milk cheese from Andante Dairy in Petaluma, California, where Soyoung Scanlan makes a tiny, music-inspired lineup of soft cheeses by hand. The wheels are little, just over five ounces, with a delicate snow-white rind that ripens from the outside in.
The paste is soft and cakey when young, with a clean, lactic core that creams up under the rind as the cheese ages. You get fresh cultured butter and yogurty tang on the front of the tongue, then a soft mushroomy lift from the bloomy rind, and a clean finish that fades into milky sweetness. It is goat-forward but gentle, more about freshness and elegance than barnyard.
This is one of those small-format cheeses where condition is everything. Eaten at room temperature, just barely runny under the rind, with a chalkier line still holding the middle, it is right in the sweet spot. A real ambassador for what American soft goat cheese can be when somebody is paying close attention.
Soft and yielding, with a delicate bloomy rind giving way to a smooth, slightly cakey paste that softens toward the rind as it ripens.
Gentle and approachable, with bright fresh-cream and clean goat tang up front and a soft mushroomy note from the rind. More elegant than assertive.
A clean, short finish that lingers just long enough to leave a milky sweetness and a whisper of the bloomy rind before fading.
Strongly lactic, in the way young goat cheeses get: fresh cream, cultured butter, a yogurty tang on the front of the tongue.
Not a nutty cheese. The paste leans toward fresh dairy and floral notes rather than browned-butter or hazelnut.
A light mushroomy note from the bloomy rind, like a clean white-button mushroom, sitting just behind the lactic core.
No real heat or piquancy. The finish is gentle and sweet, with the goat tang doing all of the lift.
Bloomy rind
Thin, edible bloomy rind that adds a soft mushroomy lift to each bite and helps the paste cream up just under the surface as the cheese ripens.
Cavatina stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.
Crisp, high-acid whites and sparkling wines mirror the fresh lactic tang of the goat's milk and refresh the palate between bites of the bloomy rind.
A touch of honey or stone-fruit jam plays off the lactic sweetness, and crisp fruit gives the soft paste something to push against.
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