Trader Joe’s ENGLISH COTSWOLD Double Gloucester Cheese with onions/chives

PRODUCT OF ENGLAND

I just tried this for the first time and was quite impressed.

It’s a very tasty English cheese with a lovely flavor. Here I find the addition of the onion/chives enhance the taste of the cheese and do not overpower it. I would call the cheese neither hard nor soft, its in between. Its a bit softer for example than a Cheddar. Speaking of which this is different than a cheddar cheese; A “Gloucester cheese” is its own thing. This is the kind of cheese you might find at an English pub.

I first tasted it on its own, then on some plain crackers and found the flavor really lovely in both cases. Just very tasty. I think this would be great on a cheese plate or cheese board.

Equally nice is the way this cheese melted, which was very easily, as its not very hard to begin with. So this will be great to melt on things and cook with. I put it on a taco and it melted easily and was delicious especially when I let it get little brown. It would be great of course mixed into scrambled eggs. Would this make a great Welsh Rarebit? I think yes, so I intend to try that sometime.

This cheese is going for $10.99/lb, my hunk coming out to about $5. It is an Imported premium cheese, so that is not bad.

I would buy this again.