SALT SINGS THE BLUES, SAXON STYLE!(Directly from the Press Release)Salt Tasting Room is proud to announce that it has received a delivery of a very rare English blue cheese.
Stichelton, (the old Saxon name for town of Stilton), is the love child of the combined passion of leading UK cheesemakers
Joe Schneider and
Randolph Hodgson (owner of
Neal’s Yard Dairy).
Stilton cheese, like Champagne, is strictly controlled, i.e. must use pasteurized milk and synthetic rennet. Stichelton is made from unpasteurized organic milk & animal rennet, and is in essence the way that Stilton used to be.
It is 20 years since England produced raw-milk Stilton, so tasting Stichelton is like tasting a piece of lost history.
Salt is pairing the Stichelton with “the Champagne of honeys�, Fireweed. Fireweed is one of the first signs of life to appear after a forest has burned off. Thin stalks shoot up out of the blackened soil, and within a year or so, a sea of red and purple flowers coat the area. After pollination, the resulting honey echoes the new colour of the land and is quite fruity on the nose and palate.
Salt Tasting Room is an artisan cheese and charcuterie tasting room situated in historic Gastown, Vancouver. Salt features dozens of unique wines by the glass and the most diverse sherry list in the city
... Kurtis Kolt 