Alp Blossom comes from Sennerei Huban, a small dairy in Doren high in Austria's Vorarlberg region. It's a cow's milk Alpine cheese aged with a coat of handpicked mountain flowers and herbs. The rind is the part everyone notices first, packed with marigold, lavender, chamomile, and rose petals pressed into the paste during aging. Under that floral crust the cheese is semi-firm and supple, with a smooth, even paste that gives just slightly under the knife. The flavor leans mild and aromatic, with a gentle nuttiness running through the middle and a soft floral note that picks up everything sitting on the rind. What sets Alp Blossom apart is how clean and approachable the paste is. The flowers do real work here, perfuming the cheese without overpowering the milk underneath. It's a quieter, more elegant Alpine than the dramatic rind suggests, and that contrast is exactly the point.
