Gateway Cheese™:

Taleggio

Flavor

Approachable

Intense

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

Yeast dough

Approachable

Cured meat

Intermediate

Beef bouillon

Intense

Taleggio

is the gateway to:

The world of stinky cheese. Soft and sticky, with a pungent aroma if not necessarily strong flavor. The first time I used the phrase “gateway cheese.” I was working at the Murray’s counter, and this was the cheese it applied to. When customers came in saying they liked soft cheese but wanted something stronger, I recommended Taleggio.

Intensity

Cheese Type

Flavor