Ostinato is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese from Andante Dairy, Soyoung Scanlan's small operation in Petaluma, California, made from pasteurized milk out of the surrounding North Bay pastures. It's pressed, aged around four months, and finished with a thin, natural rind that comes off the cellar smelling faintly of mushroom and cool stone.
The paste is dense and even. It breaks with a clean bend before it snaps, and the flavor sits right in the middle of the road, sweet cream up front, a savory pull through the middle, and a real toasted-hazelnut, brown-butter note that reads a little like a young alpine. The rind kicks in a soft forest-floor edge, quiet, not funky.
This is the kind of cheese Soyoung is known for, thoughtful, restrained, and clearly made by hand. In a 3.5oz mini it's a nice one-cheese-does-a-lot piece for a small board or a solo taste at the counter.
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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.
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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