OK I admit – today I went in search of the new glamour kid of Kiwi cheese Pukeatua Peak’s Maungatautari goats cheese. It won Artisan Cheese Award at the Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards. But alas too artisan, too soon for Moore Wilsons!
But I had goats cheese on my mind by then and so I chose Whitestone Duntroon instead.
Whitestone's Duntroon Goats cheese
Duntroon is a hardish, creamy white cheese in a black wax rind.
I loved the slightly crumbly texture and its lemony sweet flavour. Less old socks, more biscuity pastry smell, I agree with the Cheese Shop, it is indeed edible! Though it is unmistakeably a goats cheese, it does have an almost cheddary type quality, perhaps a combination of a grainness on the tongue and its gentle tangy finish.
This would be fantastic in a fennel salad and is great as an aperitif with an olive and a minerally, oily Riesling or Gewurtz.
