Ardalena - 1 Pound
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Product Description
This uncanny buffalo milk cheese comes from Transylvania in central Romania. If you visit there, you will probably encounter herds of domesticated water-buffaloes. Exit your car and you will be welcomed by these eager heifers, boasting long manes down their necks and backs, enormous inviting eyes, and surprisingly soft, delicate noses which they love to have rubbed! The challenge for their owners is supplying the buffaloes with water. As their name implies, water-buffaloes crave the wet stuff, and in hot weather they need it to keep cool, as they have very few sweat glands.Ardalena is aged for over 12 months, giving it a refined quality. Simply put, it is one of the most delicious hard cheeses we have ever sampled, even when compared to those from Europe's more traditional cheese producing nations. Along with its unique buffalo milk flavor (think of the purest milk your mind can envision), it has a tangy bite that lingers on the tongue and continues to please, well after the cheese itself has made its way to your stomach. Its texture is firm but not crumbly, and its appearance is pale yellow, dotted with numerous holes of varying size. Perfect for snacking or cooking (it grates and shreds beautifully), Ardalena is a versatile cheese that will surely impress even the most jaded connoisseur.
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