{"product_id":"st-maure-250g","title":"St. Maure (250g)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSainte-Maure de Touraine is a Loire Valley goat cheese made in a slender log, coated in salted vegetable ash, with a length of rye straw running down the center. That straw is the tell, it's a traditional structural trick that helps the young log hold its shape and lets the paste breathe as it ripens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rind blooms with a fine geotrichum mold over three to four weeks, ripening the cheese from the outside in. Under the ash you get a soft, creamy line, and the core stays a little chalky and dense, which is exactly what you want. On the palate it is bright and lactic first, with a clean citrusy tang, a light mushroomy note from the rind, and a gentle minerality from the ash that carries into a clean finish. As it ages further the paste softens toward the center, the goat character deepens, and a faint hazelnut sweetness comes forward under the rind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSainte-Maure de Touraine is AOP-protected and one of the classic goat cheeses of the Loire, a cheese that shows off what pasteurized goat's milk can do when the process is honored. Right in the sweet spot at three to four weeks in, chalky center and cream line intact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World's Best Cheese West","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45731188179113,"sku":"13905","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0667\/6027\/8185\/files\/St.Maure_250g.jpg?v=1789685850","url":"https:\/\/cheesestore.com\/products\/st-maure-250g","provider":"The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills | Domenico's Foods","version":"1.0","type":"link"}