Angry Orchard Hard Cider teamed with Brooklyn-based Crown Finish Caves have teamed up to create a limited-edition rosé cider washed cheese, Amour from Walden, utilizing this year’s hottest new drink, Angry Orchard Rosé hard cider.
Cider and cheese are a classic and delicious pairing. The apple-forward flavor of cider enhances the rich taste and texture of all types of cheese. Keeping this in mind, Angry Orchard head cider maker Ryan Burk worked closely with the team at Crown Finish Caves, visionaries in redefining the use of historic beer fermentation caves in a new and rather untraditional way, to age cheese.
Crown Finish Caves was the ideal partner to create a Rosé cider washed cheese with, as the care and craft they put into their products are akin to Angry Orchard’s cider making process. Amour from Walden highlights the rare red flesh apples, known as Amour Rouge or Red Love, that contribute to the cider’s bright flavor and rosy hue.
Angry Orchard Rosé’s apple-forward taste is complemented by refreshing light tannins, similar to a semi-dry wine, and is a perfect pairing with food. It has a light, yet refined floral aroma, medium mouthfeel, and bright apple finish.
The young cheese from Crown Finish Caves used for Amour from Walden offers mouthwatering, complex flavors from its blend of rich sheeps’ milk and cow cream. Together, the result is an undeniably autumnal creamy cheese with a subtle apple taste from the Angry Orchard Rosé cider wash.
“One of the things I love most about our cider is the diversity of flavors, aromas, and characteristics we can create from a raw ingredient, the apple,” said Ryan Burk, head cider maker at Angry Orchard. “Cheese is very similar in that there are incredibly rich flavors and textures developed all from its base ingredient, milk. We’re thrilled to bring cider and cheese together with Crown Finish Caves in an unexpected way with this Rosé cider washed cheese.”