Here’s a link to my June 2022 post on Brutal Blue.
Brutal is cave aged for about 3 years and was the funkiest Blue I’ve had. The Rogue River Blue, which I haven’t tasted, was voted the best cheese in the world and was served in the White House a few years ago at a State Dinner with President of France Macron. I haven’t seen the River Blue at GO and don’t expect to. The River Blue is aged 9-11 months then wrapped in syrah grape leaves which had been soaked in a pear tincture.
If my local GO has the Brutal I’d get a few pounds of it because I like it but others may find it too funky, approaching durian outskirts.
This the nearest you will ever get to the greatest cheese in the world for $10/lb or whatever it is now.
