If you are looking for a decadent, sinfully complex cheese to complete your Valentine's meal, you won't find anything more luxurious than a silky, soft-ripened goat cheese studded with truffles. Truffle Tremor ripened chevre is an offering from one of my favorite dairies, Cypress Grove Chevre in Northern California.
It is very similar to Cypress Grove's flagship ripened goat cheese Humboldt Fog. Both are thick, head-sized wheels of goat milk curd ripened under a Penicillium mold rind, silky and runny around the edges, flaky and lemony in the center. Humboldt Fog distinguishes itself with a line of black vegetable ash through the center and an ash dusting on the surface. Truffle Tremor dispenses with the ash and adds instead bits of black summer truffles from Northern Italy.
I talked to Bob McCall, Cypress Grove's director of sales and marketing, about Truffle Tremor.
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