Harbison is a Jasper Hill original, now available in this petite format and washed with Sandeman port from Portugal, made to celebrate the Fall festivities. This is a soft-ripened cheese with a rustic, bloomy rind that is woodsy and sweet, with the port adding beautiful aromas of vanilla and oak. Digging into its supple paste, you'll discover rich tones of sweet cream with a lingering currant finish. When the cheese is young, it is wrapped in strips of spruce cambium, the tree's inner bark layer harvested from the woodlands of Jasper Hill. The wash represents the marriage of both companies' shared mission to preesrve the agricultural traditions of a working landscape. Sandeman Porto Founder's Reserve is a hand-selected lot whose aroma and body represent the very best qualities of their ports and terroir. Enjoy with a glass of Porto, fresh berries, and a bite of dark chocolate.
Pasteurized Cow Milk
Refrigerate and eat within 2-5 days.
Cut the rind off of the cheese one half at a time. Eat the open half and then wrap it back either in its wrapper or in parchment paper/plastic wrap. This cheese is entirely edible except for the bark strip around the exterior of the wheel.
You may notice blue-green flora on the exterior of this cheese. The rind is a host for microbial activity, yeasts, molds, bacteria-- all the good kind-- that help your gut biome and contribute a complexity and tastiness not found in commodity cheeses.
