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Cashel Blue
While it may be a long way to
Tipperary, the trip is worth it to sup on the first blue cheese Ireland ever
produced. While the Grubb family has been making sumptuous butter and potted
cream on their farm Beechmount since the 1950s, they only started making cheese
in 1984. Jane and Louis Grubb saw how popular Danish Blue cheese was in Ireland
and decided that the Emerald Isle, known for producing other magnificent
cheeses, needed to produce a native contender.
Made by hand from whole, pasteurized
cow milk, Cashel Blue is a moist, semi-soft, farmstead blue cheese. Aged for
six months, it is mellow and sweet with a salty, blue tang that melts in the
mouth and thrills the taste buds.
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