Six-month aged goat Gouda: butterscotch sweetness and brown butter.
Aged goat Gouda from the Netherlands, made for Cypress Grove. Dense ivory paste with brown butter, hazelnut, and a long caramel finish. Order online.
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Midnight Moon is a pasteurized goat's milk Gouda made in the Netherlands exclusively for Cypress Grove out of Northern California, aged for at least six months before it crosses the Atlantic. The paste is a pale ivory, dense and smooth under the knife, with the first whispers of crystal crunch coming through as the wheel matures.
On the palate it opens with brown butter and toasted hazelnut, then pulls into a long caramel sweetness that lingers well past the swallow. There's just enough goat-milk character underneath to remind you what you're eating, but the age has rounded off any sharpness, leaving a cheese that reads more like a butterscotch-laced aged Gouda than a goat cheese. A really approachable wheel, sweet and nutty in a way that wins over people who think they don't like goat cheese.
Dense and smooth under the knife, breaking into firm slabs with the occasional crunch of crystal through the paste.
Pronounced but friendly, leaning into nutty caramel sweetness rather than goaty tang, with enough age to carry a long finish.
A long sweet finish, caramel and brown butter lingering well past the swallow.
Most of the fresh-milk character has dried out with age, leaving just a quiet goat-milk sweetness in the background.
Toasted hazelnut and brown butter run right through the middle, the calling card of a properly aged goat Gouda.
Clean and sweet rather than earthy, with only a faint savory pull underneath the caramel.
No real piquancy, the goat-milk sharpness has mellowed out completely with age.
Waxed rind
Goat 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 caramel and brown-butter sweetness wants something with a little richness of its own, sparkling wine to cut the density or a fortified wine to echo the long finish.
The cheese already tastes like caramel and toasted nuts, so honey and dried fruit echo the sweetness while the almonds reinforce the nutty backbone.
Video represents style and type of cheese - may not be an exact match in all cases.
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Pasteurized goat-milk cheeses crafted in small batches at the Arcata creamery, with Midnight Moon contract-aged six-plus months in the Netherlands to their spec.
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