Description
Livarot is one of the oldest and greatest cheeses of Normandy, along with Pont l’Eveque and Camembert (a much more recent cheese). Livarot began as a monastic French cheese easily distinguished by its washed rind and pungent aroma.
The cheese is noted for its soft, golden paste with little holes and springy texture. The taste is nutty and melts in the mouth to release flavors of salty citrus spiciness. The texture is creamy, smooth and quite runny at room temperature. So runny in fact, that it is wrapped with 5 bands of reed strips at salting to hold the cheese within itself during the ripening. These strips account for it being known in Normandy as “the Colonel”.
