Société's cave-aged Roquefort: raw sheep's milk with bright salt and buttery finish.
This is Roquefort from Société, the oldest and largest of the Roquefort houses, made in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in the Aveyron from raw sheep's milk and aged in the natural limestone caves of Mont Combalou. The Bee label is their classic A.O.C. selection, one of the oldest protected cheeses in the world with a recipe that traces back nearly a thousand years.
The paste is ivory and semi-soft, moist and yielding, shot through with a wide even spread of blue-green veining. That spread is the calling card of properly aged Roquefort, the wheels are pierced during affinage so the Penicillium roqueforti can breathe through the cheese rather than getting injected after the fact. On the palate it leads with a bright salty tang, then the buttery sheep's milk richness comes up underneath, and the finish pulls long and sweet with a peppery piccante bite holding on at the back of the tongue.
The natural cave air does what no climate-controlled room can replicate, drawing through the fleurines in the rock and leaving that damp-stone, mushroomy depth in the paste. Right in the sweet spot where intense meets elegant.
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