The Long Paddock - Bluestone

Bluestone - Blue cheese 150g

Bluestone is a rich, complex blue cheese, very different to other Australian or imported blue cheeses. Made as a small cylinder, it has a distinctive-looking, thin, punctured, orange-brown-blue natural rind. Its paste is a creamy colour with subtle blue veins, showing dense buttery paste near the rind, but crumblier in the middle.  

Like Stilton, the curd is milled, allowing relatively mild blueing in a dense but slightly crumbly paste. Its taste is a balanced meld of creamy/buttery flavours with some fruitiness and a little saltiness. Its blue mould delivers subtle spikes of flavour in the mouth as it is 
eaten. It exhibits delicious complexity and length of flavour as the paste melts in the mouth. A very moreish cheese! 

Aspect: distinctive-looking, thin, punctured, orange/brown/blue natural rind, and a creamy-colour paste inside with subtle blue veins.

Texture: dense buttery paste near the rind, but chalky/crumblier in the middle. Like Stilton, the curd is milled, allowing relatively mild blueing in a dense but slightly crumbly paste.

Flavour: balanced meld of creamy/buttery flavours, some fruitiness and a little saltiness. Its blue mould delivers subtle spikes of flavour as it is eaten. Exhibits delicious complexity & length of flavour as the paste melts in the mouth.

Just outside the ranges and based at The Mill Castlemaine, Long Paddock Cheese is a small-scale Australian artisan cheesemaker, recognised as one of the best in Australia. We create deliciously-different hand-made cheeses, mainly in the French style but with a definite Australian identity. Our globally-renowned cheesemaker, Ivan Larcher, heads a small-but-skilled team making soft and semi-hard cheeses and fresh dairy products, perfectly ripened and beautifully packaged. All our products are hand-made from certified-organic cow’s milk from a nearby family-owned farm, delivered to us several times a week.