Each Gateway Cheese™ is a jumping-off point. It’s a cheese with specific flavor and texture associations, and it ushers you into a larger group of cheeses that share these qualities. The point of a Gateway Cheese™ is to take a common, familiar cheese and use it to discover less common, less familiar cheeses. Every Gateway Cheese™ introduces a spectrum of flavors, from approachable to intense, shared by all the cheeses in the group.

Flavor Spectrum

Cream
Approachable
Crème fraîche
Intermediate
Cooked broccoli
Intense
Brie
 is the gateway to:
Soft, smearable, white-rinded cheeses that embrace cream, butter, and yogurt, becoming increasingly intense with flavors of cooked vegetables.
Intensity
Cheese Type
Flavor
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
1
Cheese Type
Green Hill
Flavor
Button Mushroom
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
2
Cheese Type
Fromager d’Affinois
Flavor
Cream
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
3
Cheese Type
St. Nuage
Flavor
Butter
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
4
Cheese Type
Robiola Bosina
Flavor
Yeast Rolls
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
5
Cheese Type
Bucheron
Flavor
Crème fraîche
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
6
Cheese Type
Harbison
Flavor
Woodsy
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
7
Cheese Type
Kunik
Flavor
Porcini Mushroom
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
8
Cheese Type
Dancing Fern
Flavor
Truffle
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
9
Cheese Type
Tunworth
Flavor
Cooked Broccoli
 is the gateway to:
Intensity
10
Cheese Type
Brie de Meaux
Flavor
All That, Plus Bitter Greens

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