Karikaas Cheese, the cheese for cheese lovers made in Rangiora, North Canterbury The Karikaas range includes a selection of Dutch style cheeses made in a traditional manner and sold in a range of age categories from young to vintage.
Vegetarian Cumin is a low fat and vegetarian option for those who enjoy Leyden/Cumin Cheese. If you like the fresh taste of cumin in a young cheese, without the cholesterol issues, this is the cheese for you. A full flavoured and aromatic young cheese.
Karikaas Pepper Gouda has a creamy texture and mild flavour when young, with the addition of peppercorns and chilli adds a warmth and gentle pepperiness to the flavour
Karikaas Leyden Mature, the cheese flavours have had more time to develop, and strengthen, enhancing the aromatics. The cumin flavour is still quite fresh and the texture still creamy.
Karikaas Gouda Mature, the gouda cheese flavours have strengthened, while still retaining the creamy texture. If you want a bit more flavour, but love the creamy texture this is the cheese for you.
Karikaas Gouda Vintage is a firm highly complex flavoured cheese with some sweetness and a lingering taste in the mouth. A little goes a long way. May have some crystalisation – a sure sign of age. A beautiful cheese on its own, but perfect shaved to add the final touch to a dish of pasta, or a Caesar salad.
A traditional Dutch cheese, Gouda has a creamy texture and mild flavour when young, with the vintage Gouda developing intense & complex flavours with a firm texture. Vintage Cumin is tended in our cheese store for over a year. As time passes it develops superb flavours and aromas.