Pecorino Tartufo Mini

Pecorino Tartufo is a sheep's milk cheese from Italy, infused with black truffle and aged about 30 days into a young, semi-firm wheel. The paste is pale ivory, shot through with dark specks of truffle that you can see the moment the knife goes in.

On the palate, the pecorino leads with a clean salty tang and a gentle sheep's milk sweetness, and then the truffle takes over, earthy and aromatic in that deep forest-floor way that hangs on the finish well past the swallow. The texture sits right between semi-soft and semi-hard, dense enough to slice cleanly but still moist, so it cuts into neat wedges without crumbling.

This is one of those cheeses that does the work for you. A little something like this on a board with honey and figs, or shaved warm over fresh pasta, and the truffle does the heavy lifting. Worth the splurge for an everyday wheel that eats like a special occasion.