Old Witch

The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills | Domenico's Foods Verified independent store

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Old Witch is a thermized cow's milk Swiss Alpine from the Toggenburg valley, aged 10 to 12 months and washed during affinage in brine and a proprietary spice mix. The paste is dens e and smooth, breaking into clean slabs under the knife with the fine granular pull you get from a properly aged Alpine. On the palate it leads with brown butter and toasted hazelnut, then opens up into roasted onion and a deep savory pull through the middle, and finishes long with a quiet caramel sweetness underneath. The brine-and-spice wash is doing real work here, layering that roasted-onion note right into the paste so the cheese reads bigger and more savory than its size would suggest. Show more