Bleu de Basques Brebis

oil on wood, 10x10"

Bleu de Basques Brebis, original artwork by Mike Geno

From the Cheese Portraits series.

This is an artisan sheep's milk blue cheese made in the Pyrénées mountains, a region of the French Basque country where the wildflowers and fresh grass give the milk its complexity, subtlety, and lightness. Bleu des Basques has a wonderful combination of earthy spiciness and hints of apricot.

Strangely, this cheese is a sheeps milk cheese (which sweats a bit when completely warm) and also it's a creamy blue cheese. It's perhaps the first time Ive had the two simultaneously. I love it!

Origin: France

Availability: sold