Two favourites of mine. Well chosen, and I would happily join you in sampling them.
(Mind you, I am also partial to Gorgonzola, Comte, Cashel Blue, Aged [crystalline] extra mature golden Gouda, Roquefort, Camembert oozing with dreams of world domination….and so on…)
This evening, I hosted a small gathering of friends/colleagues: This included serving two bottles of red wine, one Spanish, one Italian (Chinati reserve), offering two bowls of olives, two of nuts, a dish of Aged Dutch Reypenaer, another plate of diced and sliced aged Italian Parmesan, good conversation, laughter, my MBA playing 60s music softly in the background, (I haven't yet worked out how to attach a Bose speaker to same; never mind…), and the crickets beginning to realise that summer has arrived as the evenings are becoming more balmy, so their whirring wings sound occasionally, another backdrop to our nocturnal chats in the sultry dusk, while the days are now sharply hot with the sun a white glare in a pellucid sky…...and slightly scrawny cats laid siege to our table in the hope of sentimentality gaining victory over sense as they were seeking an open invitation onto a lap in order to be fed. They have been known to leap lightly from laps to table….
If this is the style you really like, I can recommend a wonderful (seasonal, alas) cheese from the same stable, but even better. It is called Etivaz…..and it is, simply sublime….
