Above the post update: Wow. I have had this sitting in my review queue for ages. Here, have a cheese blog:

Today’s cheese I picked out for one reason and one reason only, purely on impulse:

By the pound, it’s the most expensive cheese I’ve ever had.

Below the cut for more.

So I was wandering the cheese counter at Whole Foods, as I am wont to do, in search of something new and perhaps exotic for the old Cheese Blog. I examined this and that, and happened to pick up a tiny piece of soft blueish cheese when I see the price tag, which at first I think has to be a misprint:

It wasn’t. This little beauty is 44.99 A POUND. Ouch.

Biographical Information:
French Raw Milk Roquefort
Obtained from: Madison Whole Foods (University Avenue)
Price: $44.99/lb

I had to have it. Even if it’s only a tiny sliver, and even if that tiny sliver cost as much as a pound or more of a nice four year cheddar. Even if it cost over 6 times as much as the perfectly respectable and quite tasty Roth Kase blue cheese I reviewed a while back.

It would be mine. Thanks to my roommate’s lucrative paycheck, oh yes… it would be mine.

Mwahahaha.

At any rate, I got this baby home and forgot about it for a while, but eventually we cracked it open for a veggie plate, whence I sadly neglected to get pictures.

This cheese is… well, it’s very good, actually.

This Roquefort is a sharp blue, in essence.. a tiny bit gritty and extremely, extremely strong. The blue/bleu flavor is almost overpowering, not unlike a habanero is for hot peppers; it washes over your tongue in a wave. It’s also very salty.

However for me the most noteworthy quality is that it doesn’t just melt in your mouth, it liquefies in a moment, dissolving away into nothing. This is a fascinating experience for cheese.. I swear it melts like a very soft ice cream, only it’s not cold. It must have a phase transition just a tiny bit above the refrigerator case temp or some such. It’s really neat, as far as cheese goes.

Ok, so how to review this one. The roomie thought it was ok, she found the strength overpowering, whereas I loved the novelty. If you like a strong bluey cheese, then brother, you’ve got a winner here. Plus you can show off your love of snooty French cuisine in its cheesy finery.

Final Scores:
Me: A-
Roomie: B