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Pepe Saza Maple Butter (7.75 oz)

Pepe Saza Maple Butter (7.75 oz)

Other · Cow Milk · Fresh

Cultured butter hand-rolled in vanilla, then submerged in maple syrup.

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4.7(428 Google reviews)
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The Tasting

How it lands on the palate

Australian cultured butter hand-rolled in vanilla bean and pure maple syrup. Silky, sweet, and lactic. Perfect for pancakes, waffles, and biscuits. Order online.

Pepe Saza Maple Butter (7.75 oz) tasting profile
Deep Dive

A closer look

Pepe Saya Maple Butter is a cultured cow's milk butter from Botany, just outside Sydney, hand-rolled in vanilla bean and then submerged in pure maple syrup. It is fresh, silky, and 100% cow, built off the same batch-churned cultured butter Pepe Saya has become known for across Australia.

The texture is glossy and spreadable straight from the fridge, softening into something almost pourable at room temperature. On the palate, the maple sits right on top of a rich cultured-butter tang, with real vanilla bean threading through the middle. The finish hangs on for a good twenty or thirty seconds, sweet maple giving way to that fresh-cream lactic pull.

This is a breakfast butter first and foremost, meant for pancakes, waffles, warm cornbread, or a stack of buttermilk biscuits. Pepe Saya cultures their butter the old way, slow lactic fermentation before churning, and the maple version keeps that backbone fully intact. A little decadent, a little indulgent, and worth setting out early so it can come to room temperature before serving.

The Tasting Notes

Texture

Silky and spreadable straight from the fridge, softens into an almost pourable cream at room temperature with a glossy sheen from the maple.

Intensity

Sweet maple sits right on top of a rich cultured-butter tang, with vanilla bean threading through the middle. Gentle enough for breakfast, distinctive enough that you notice every bite.

Finish

The maple hangs on the palate well after the butter has melted away, with vanilla and a soft cultured tang lingering for a good twenty or thirty seconds.

Lactic

Very high lactic pull from the cultured cream, thick and yogurty, with a fresh-buttermilk tang that keeps the sweetness in check.

Nutty

A whisper of browned-cream nuttiness from the culturing, but the maple and vanilla are doing most of the talking here.

Earthy

Clean and confectionary, no barnyard or mushroomy notes; the vanilla bean adds warmth without pushing into earthy territory.

Spicy

No pepper, no piquancy. This one runs sweet and gentle all the way through.

The Rind

None rind

No rind, this is a spreadable cultured butter finished with vanilla bean and maple syrup.

The Pairing

What to pour. What to put alongside.

Cultured Butter stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.

Wine glass — The Sip
The Sip

Champagne · Sparkling cider · Cold-brew coffee · Sauternes

  • Champagne
  • Sparkling cider
  • Cold-brew coffee
  • Sauternes

Bubbles cut the richness and reset the palate between bites, and a cold-brew coffee picks up on the vanilla and maple notes for a proper breakfast pairing.

Fresh fruit — The Bite
The Bite

Bartlett pears · Fresh figs · Honeycrisp apples

  • Bartlett pears
  • Fresh figs
  • Honeycrisp apples

Fresh fruit and toasted nuts play up the maple and vanilla without competing with the butter itself, and a pinch of flaky sea salt sharpens the sweetness.

Honey — The Sweet
The Sweet

Toasted pecans · Sea salt flakes · Buckwheat honey

  • Toasted pecans
  • Sea salt flakes
  • Buckwheat honey
Top Recipe

Buttermilk pancakes with maple butter

Reviews

What our customers say

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Top Italian and French cheeses, carefully selected

Domenico and his team are fantastic. I’m a chef and I often get my supplies from The Cheese Store — unique products, carefully selected, from top Italian and French cheeses to excellent local ones.

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Chef Tommaso
11 months ago · ✓ Google Local Guide · 66 reviews
★★★★★

Like wine tasting, but for cheese

Absolutely loved the cheese store! Everyone was super helpful and friendly. Lena helped us — she was very knowledgeable on all the cheeses: where they came from, what the region is like, what they are known for. It was like wine tasting for cheese.

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Amandarina
4 months ago · ✓ Google Local Guide · 34 reviews
★★★★★

Excellent customer service on a shipped order

Ordered several cheeses from them and the wrong items were delivered. Contacted the store and they recognized the error and immediately sent the correct order the next day without any fuss. Really appreciate the promptness and professionalism.

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Stephen Duffy
2 months ago · ✓ Google Local Guide · 83 reviews
The Origin

From Botany, Sydney, Australia

Pepe Saza Maple Butter (7.75 oz) origin map
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Meet the Maker

Pepe Saya

Artisan · Founded 2010 by Pierre Issa · Botany, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Est. 2010

“Slow-cultured cream churned in small batches and hand-worked into shape, treating butter as a craft ingredient rather than a commodity spread.”

Pepe Saya is a Sydney butter maker founded in 2010 by Pierre Issa, who built the business in Western Sydney after the global financial crisis derailed his earlier career. The name is a nod to his Lebanese-Australian father, Pepe, and the cultured butter tradition Pierre fell in love with while traveling Europe — the kind of slow, tangy, hand-worked butter that French and Italian chefs treat as an ingredient in its own right, not a commodity spread.

The process is old-school crème fraîche logic applied at butter scale. Fresh cream from NSW dairy farms is inoculated with a lactic culture and left to ripen for around 24 hours, developing the yogurty, nutty acidity that defines a true cultured butter. Once the cream has soured to spec, it's batch-churned, the buttermilk is drained off (and bottled separately — chefs buy it for pancakes and fried chicken brines), and the butter is hand-worked, salted, and shaped into their signature rounds and logs. Nothing about it is fast: it's a small team, paddling and patting butter by hand in a working dairy in Botany.

They're best known for the salted cultured round — a staple on tasting menus from Sydney to Los Angeles — and for a run of flavored butters built on the same base: vanilla-and-maple, truffle, smoked. The maple butter we carry is the cultured round rolled in vanilla bean and bathed in pure maple syrup, which is exactly the kind of indulgent, single-purpose product that justifies the shelf space. For an Australian butter to hold its own next to Bordier and Beppino Occelli on a cheese counter, the cream and the culture both have to be right. Pepe Saya is right in the sweet spot.
The Signature

Fresh NSW cream ripened ~24 hours with a lactic culture, then batch-churned and hand-worked into salted rounds and logs.

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