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Three Years, One Crunchy Gouda: A Pagosa Guide to Artikaas Vintage Lot 36

A cheese that breaks instead of bends asks you to change your plans. Forget tidy sandwich slices: Artikaas Vintage Lot 36 is happier in rough little shards beside a pear and a glass of something malty. For a quiet evening in Pagosa Springs, that is a useful sort of luxury. The surprise is how a cheese this firm can finish so richly.

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