Serious Cheese: Spring Brook Tarentaise and the Vermont Cheesemakers' Festival
Made with raw, pasture-fed Jersey cows' milk, the color is bright golden yellow, and the aroma is of grass, butter, and toasted nuts. The texture is dense, even and toothsome, turning creamy and buttery on the tongue. SBT starts off with a mellow flavor that ranges from sweet to savory as it opens on the palate, finishing with a spicy zing. It melts, it slices, it squidges between your fingers. In sum: It's cheese, and it's good. This is lucky for Spring Brook Farm, because their cheese is the means to support a bigger project: the Farms for City Kids Foundation. More
