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\n\"Planet Planet Cheese<\/strong><\/a> is a weekly blog devoted to everything cheese: products, people, places, news, and views. James Beard Award\u2013winning journalist Janet Fletcher writes <\/em>Planet Cheese from her home in Napa Valley. Janet is the author of <\/em>Cheese & Wine, <\/em>Cheese & Beer, and <\/em>The Cheese Course and an occasional contributor to <\/em>culture<\/strong><\/a>. Visit <\/em>janetfletcher.com<\/a> to sign up for <\/em>Planet Cheese and view Janet\u2019s current schedule of cheese appreciation classes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It has been many years since Judy Schad released a new cheese, and here\u2019s the three-word review: Worth the wait<\/b>. Flora<\/em>, the newbie, joins the other distinguished goat cheeses from Capriole<\/a>, Schad\u2019s pioneering Indiana creamery. Maybe you think the planet already has plenty of soft-ripened goat cheese, but I\u2019m willing to bet that Flora floats to the top.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve possibly had some of Capriole<\/a>\u2019s mainstay cheeses, like Wabash Cannonball<\/a> and the Bourbon-scented leaf-wrapped O\u2019Banon<\/em>. My favorite in her line is Julianna<\/a>, a four-month-old wheel cloaked in herbes de Provence<\/em>. But precious little makes its way to my neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Weighing in at six ounces, Flora works well at a retail counter. \u201cI wanted something more pickup-able,\u201d says Schad, by which she means not too big for most households or too small for a dinner party. Flora is sized to share among four to six people, so most shoppers will take a whole one. That\u2019s a good thing, because retailers hate to cut these wrinkly-rind cheeses. The unsold pieces suffer terribly in plastic.<\/p>\n

Resembling a Selles-sur-Cher<\/em><\/a> from France\u2019s Loire Valley, this little goat disk has a cloak of gray ash underneath its rippled white geotrichum<\/a> rind. The ash reduces the surface acidity, making it easier for the geotrichum to grow. And it\u2019s the geotrichum that helps ripen and soften the cheese, encouraging the oozy layer, or cream line, just under the rind.<\/p>\n

A whole ripe Flora will have some give to it; probe it gently in its paper wrap and it should feel a bit squishy, like a ripe peach. If it feels hard, the cheese got too dry somewhere en route\u2014most likely in the retail cheese case, says Schad. These cheeses want humidity to keep that mold progressing on the rind. When they dry out, they basically die. They won\u2019t develop a seductive mushroom scent or the molten cream line just under the rind. The rind will remain hard instead of getting more tender, moist and crinkly.<\/h3>\n

Capriole ships the cheeses at 10 to 14 days old, when the mold has just begun to develop. That gives distributors and retailers two to three weeks to get it to you before decline begins. That inability to control the final steps of their product\u2019s journey must drive cheesemakers crazy. \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen on the other end,\u201d admits Schad.<\/p>\n

I have sampled Flora at its peak, when it was oozy, mushroomy and a little slumpy when cut. The cheese pictured above is not that. To my taste, it\u2019s too young and probably not going to develop much further\u2014a clear case of arrested development. The flavor was pleasant\u2014tart, clean and appropriately salted\u2014but a bit of a letdown because I knew what the cheese was capable of.<\/p>\n

If the Flora you purchase is too firm, Schad suggests putting it, still in its paper wrap, in a lidded container in the fridge. A wine cellar would be even better; the cheese really wants to be held at 56\u00b0F to 58\u00b0F. Check on it every couple of days. It will soften somewhat, although it probably will not develop that cream layer under the rind.<\/p>\n

Schad recommends Sancerre with Flora and I\u2019m on board with that. My favorite is Domaine Hippolyte Reverdy<\/a>, which my local Whole Foods often has. In California, look for Capriole Flora at Maker\u2019s Common in Berkeley; Milkfarm in Los Angeles; Cowgirl Creamery, Mission Cheese, Other Avenues and Union Larder in San Francisco; Driver\u2019s Market in Sausalito; and Cheesemongers of Sherman Oaks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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