Well, here’s an unusual cheese for you. Lou Claousou – a raw sheep’s milk cheese from the Occitanie region in the south of France.
In the shape of a lozenge it has a thin layer of spruce around the outside which gives it its unique flavour and character.
Sheep’s cheese tends to be ‘whiter’ in appearance than goat’s cheese. The fromagerie that produces it is high up in the mountains at 1000m altitude in the village of Hyelzas.
Milky and slightly woody on the nose. Smooth creamy and aromatic on the palate. The spruce flavour is distinctive (as it is on Mont d’Or) and complements the flavours of butter, hay and grass.
