Firm, aged Tuscan goat cheese that breaks clean and finishes with salty-sweet length.
Caprone is a hard aged goat's milk cheese from Tuscany, sweet, salty and long on the finish. Order online from The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills.
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Caprone is a hard goat's milk cheese from De'Magi in Tuscany, aged long enough to concentrate the milk into something dense and layered. The paste is firm and pale, breaking into clean flakes under the knife, with a dry chew that softens as it warms on the tongue.
On the palate it leads with a clean goaty sweetness, then salt builds through the middle and the flavors stretch out the longer you chew. There's a light browned-butter note from the aging, a quiet hay and dried grass character underneath from the Tuscan pasture, and just a gentle peppery lift on the finish. Long-aged goat cheeses like this are rarer than their sheep and cow cousins, and Caprone is a good example of what the milk can do when it's given real time.
The rind is natural and rustic, adding a little earthy salinity that frames the sweeter paste. Right in the sweet spot for a cheese that wants a drizzle of acacia honey and a ripe fig alongside it.
Firm and dense, breaks in clean flakes under the knife with a dry, slightly granular chew that softens as it warms on the tongue.
Pronounced goat character up front, sweet cream and salt building through the middle, then a long savory pull that grows the longer you chew.
Long, salty-sweet finish that keeps stretching out on the palate, with the goaty tang holding on well past the swallow.
The fresh goat's milk still reads through the age, a clean lactic tang sitting under the sweetness rather than up front.
Browned butter and a light toasted almond note come through the middle from the aging, without tipping into full alpine territory.
A quiet hay and dried grass note from the Tuscan pasture, more pastoral than mushroomy or barnyardy.
Just a gentle peppery lift on the back of the palate, more warming than piquant.
Natural rind
Natural rind adds a rustic, slightly earthy edge and a touch of salinity that frames the sweeter paste underneath.
Caprone stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.
Tuscan reds echo the regional pasture; a bright Vermentino cuts the salt, and a lightly sweet Moscato mirrors the honeyed finish of the paste.
The sweet-salty arc of the paste wants soft honey and ripe fruit to lengthen the finish and balance the goat tang.
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