We’ve had a lot of cheese made from cow’s milk and goat’s milk but proportionally less cheese made from sheep’s milk.

There have only been 2 others this year… on day 4 and day 16.

Not sure whether that proportionality holds for cheese-making in general or not – it’d be interesting to know, but I’ll save that exploration for another day.

Here’s what we thought of today’s sheep-milk cheese…

It was another 2-cheese kind of evening when we tasted the Brézin cheese.

What is with us not being on a “1 cheese / day” rhythm this year?

I wonder if it the fact that we’re all a little busier this year… the fact that there’s a bit less novelty this year… etc.

Not sure, but that shouldn’t take away from talking about today’s cheese…

Hmmm… we approached this cheese with a healthy dose of fear and trepidation… or at least I did.

You see, it’s another that we had last year, and when having a ‘repeat cheese’, I never disclose last year’s score to the family before we’ve given this year’s score. I don’t want to set expectations. But this cheese did not score particularly well last year.

Would this year be different?
Let’s find out…

How is it possible that we are one week out from Christmas already. I’m sure I don’t know where the time went.

Today’s cheese is going to put us head-to-head with Day 22 from last year where we tasted Estival for the first time. Yet another day where we’re tasting a repeat cheese.

The pressure’s on… will it impress more than last year? …be a disappointment? (we’ve had a couple of those so far)… Let’s find out!

We’re one week from Christmas Eve, and today’s cheese takes us, originally, to one of the places where I imagine Christmas truly loves to dwell, a place where it’s easy to envision snowy forests and old-world charm decorated to the hilt for the holidays… Austria.

The Tomme aux Fleurs is another cheese that we had last year, so we’ll see if our thoughts have changed, but nonetheless… I love the simple notion of this colourful little cheese.

We’re well beyond half way through this year’s Cheese Christmas.

I’ve got to say, up to this point, and generally speaking, we don’t seem to be quite as impressed with the Cheesy Christmas product offering as we were last year.

That’s not a comment on today’s cheese which, in fact was a hit… but it’s just a general observation now that we’re this far in…

We were really looking forward to this cheese for a couple of reasons:

#1… we really like goat cheese, as you’ve come to know.
#2… Cranberries… need I say more?

Let’s talk about cranberry goat cheese…

Oh my… today’s cheese was not good.

Either our tastes are changing, last year’s novelty of the Cheesy Christmas has worn off, or they’re just sending us collectively worse cheeses this year, but this cheese scored the worse of any cheese that we tasted last year or to date this year…

On one hand I was glad to finally be able to say that I’d tasted Stilton cheese, you see, there was a time when we were reading about it on a near-daily basis!

Reading about Stilton cheese you say?

Well… sort of. You see when our kids were small, there was a series of cartoon books about an intelligent mouse names Geronimo Stilton and our kids LOVED him. He was always going on a new adventure with his clumsy cousin, Trap, his adorable (and adored) nephew Benjamin and his always-there-to-save-the-day sister Thea (How DOES one pronounce that name? The jury’s still out).

So you see… we were no strangers to the existance of Stilton cheese, but today would be our first taste…