Cheese suggestions for a wine and cheese party?
What are some good cheeses to have, I will be having several different wines as I have invited 50 people. Also any good apetizers that any of you can suggest too that would be great!
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Always keep the cheese to no more than 3 - you do not want to overwhelm people’s pallets - so 3 wines paired with 3 cheeses should be perfect - adding apples, pears and grapes are a nice touch as well.
havarti
brie
jack
port wine
chedder
swiss
mini quishe & hors devouirs (frozen from grocery store)
make sure you have about 4-5 different cheeses including a blue one, serve with biscuits, chutneys and grapes.
A good idea is to get a whole stilton (or half), scoop out a bowl shape into it and fill with port. Makes an impressive centrepiece which can be eaten. I’m feeling peckish now.
I had a Cheese & Wine Party for my 21st (almost 50 years ago!) and there was nothing like the present-day choice of cheeses.
Just some suggestions:-
A large bowl with a cheese dip and potato dippers, plus celery, carrot batons, slices of capsicum, broccoli spears, cucumber sticks, onion slices, etc.
A small, whole Edam cheese with cocktail sticks laden with various fruits (not forgetting pineapple with Cheddar chunks!)
Small tartlets filled with a Welsh rarebit mix - served hot.
Small savoury biscuits topped with various cheeses and a pickle (gerkin, olive, white onion) to garnish
For your cheese platter - a hard cheese (Cheddar is one of the main favourites), a soft cheese (Brie?), a blue cheese (Mature Stilton), then hunt around the supermarket for colourful and slightly "exotic" cheese additions, to make the board appetising and to give people a chance to try cheeses they’ve not encountered before and garnishes.
If you have a Paxton & Whitfield Cheesemonger within easy reach - their cheeses are superb and their staff extremely knowledgeable.
I’ve used them in London, Bath and Stratford upon Avon.
A basket of breads. Butter curls. selection of savoury biscuits.
Bowl of fruits, various.
Cheesecakes
P.S. If you are cheese lover and live in England or Wales, The British Cheese Festival is at Cardiff this year, in Cardiff Castle Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th September
http://www.thecheeseweb.com
You will want a soft brie for the lighter whites.
A sharp white cheese for the heavier whites.
Cheddar is good for the transition wines and I love a pepper jack with a zin.