Harbourne Blue vs Lanark Blue
Harbourne Blue
Facts
- Milk
- Goat
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Harbourne Blue is a British brand of blue cheese from the United Kingdom, made from pasteurised goat's milk. The paste is firm and dense, off-white, with blue or grey-green veins. A young wheel can taste clean and lightly yoghurty, while a mature wheel turns spicy and assertive. It is a goat's milk blue, not a fresh goat log and not a cow's milk Stilton. The name refers to the Harbourne, a river in the southwest of England, rather than to a harbour town.
Lanark Blue
Facts
- Milk
- Sheep
- Texture
- Semi-hard
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- United Kingdom
Lanark Blue is a Scottish blue cheese from the United Kingdom, made with raw sheep's milk. It is often set beside Roquefort in style, because both are sheep's milk cheeses with blue veins, but it is its own farmhouse wheel. The paste is creamy and ivory, with blue-green lines through it. A natural rind may show white, blue, and gray mold before the cheese is wrapped for sale. The taste is salty, rich, and tangy, and it changes with the season and the length of aging.