This Beemster XO (extra old) Cheese is the famous Beemster cheese that is aged for 26 months. The ageing process has enhanced the flavours, intensifying the malty sweetness and nutty, butterscotch flavours, balancing well with the medium saltiness of the cheese.
This matured variety features the same sweet caramel sweet flavour, but also develops deep, long-lasting flavours of butterscotch, whiskey and pecan.
The cheese is generally more intense, drier, brittle, crumbly, and grainy in texture, with more crunchy tyrosine crystals.
Pair with Malbec, Tempranillo.