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Last Call to Help us Test Alpine Express

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Hi Cheese Friend,

I just quickly wanted to follow up with you in regards to our ‘request for help’ email from the other week. There are still a few spaces left to test out our new Alpine Express cheese subscription box.

Simply go to http://www.alpineexpress.com.au and use coupon ‘EARLYBIRD15’ when you subscribe to get your early bird offer at 50% discount.

Any help is much appreciated. All boxes will be packed and sent out next week Tuesday. Sign-up for this round closes this Wednesday, so don’t wait!

Thanks again!

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Hi Cheese Friend

You’re part of our The Red Cow Friends & Family group and therefore we thought you should hear first about our upcoming new subscription service called Alpine Express.

This foodie subscription service will deliver high quality, alpine cheese directly to your door. Hand-selected by us you receive a box of up to 3 different artisan cheese from our current and future range of premium cheese.

Alpine Express is about to be fully launched. However, since no new product is perfect from the start we would like your help: Have a look at our new website at www.alpineexpress.com.au and sign-up to one of our packages to test it out.

To help you we will give you our first box at half price. Simply use code EARLYBIRD15 at check out to claim your special price. You can cancel your subscription any time.

But don’t wait too long as the next box will be sent out on 21 April with orders closing on 15 April. Any feedback is valuable to us, be it your opinion about the website information only or the full end-to-end experience – simply send your feedback to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Friends%20%26%20Family%20Feedback%3A%20Alpine%20Express) .

Thank you heaps in advance and we’re looking forward to your feedback on our brand new service!

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March Artisan Cheese News

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** New arrival: Jersey Blue
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Willi Schmid’s Jersey Blue, made from 100% Swiss Jersey Cow’s milk and specially thermised for the Australian market (that’s still below pasteurisation) is now available at your premium cheesemonger in NSW, Victoria and South Australia (https://www.alpineexpress.com.au/where-to-buy/) . The buttery feel of the Jersey milk coats the palate and then the powerful flavours of the mould burst through. It has an unbelievable long finish, a masterpiece indeed and definitely a must try for every cheese connoisseur!

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It’s part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival this year, this boutique event in the beautiful surrounds of Werribee Park. We’re of course talking about ‘Fromage A Trois’ the Cheese & Cider festival. The 2015 version is bigger and better and a must-go for every cheese lover. So put Sunday, 15th March into your diaries and book your tickets now.
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Surely there are already enough cheese accompaniments in the market, right? Wrong! Our new Sélection Rolf Beeler Fruit Mustards are a brilliant addition. Plus you wouldn’t have come across anything like this before. The wonderful ripe fruits of the pear, fig or quince are paired with a sharp mustard flavour. Combined it’s a symbiosis of excellence and also works with cured meat or game. You find them at your premium retailer or in our online shop.
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February ♡ Artisan Cheese News

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** Tennis with Shannon
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January saw us partnering with Shannon Bennett’s Vue de Monde at the Australian Open. Our Sélection Beeler Vacherin Fribourgeois and Alp Sbrinz were very well paired with other selected artisan cheese from Europe such as the Hervé Mons Camembert or the Luigi Guffanti Gorgonzola Piccante.
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December ♡ Artisan Cheese News

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** It’s that time of year:
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By now you will probably have a good idea what main course you’ll be serving during your Xmas functions. Maybe even what dessert. But don’t forget the cheese! For inspiration, 3 of our awesome retailers each came up with a wonderful suggestion for your Christmas cheese platter.

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** Willi’s Büffel Trüffel
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Handcrafted is an understatement when it comes to Willi Schmid’s cheese creations. Remember the Jersey Blue? That one will be back in February, but currently we have one of his jewels ready for Xmas for you – the amazing Büffel Trüffel, a cheese made from Buffalo milk with Swiss, black truffles. It doesn’t get much better than this.
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Willi’s Büffel Trüffel

It takes a very good cheese maker to deal with some of the most expensive ingredients you can find. Willi Schmid certainly fits that criteria very well and his creation, the Büffel Trüffel is another showcase of his immense talent.

The cheese certainly is very unique – it is made from buffalo milk and local, black truffles and matured for 3 to 4 months at Willi’s own maturing cellar in Lichtensteig (Toggenburg). The buffalo milk comes from a small herd of Italian water buffalo shared between two farmers that are located not far from Zurich in Switzerland. The milk is brought to Willi Schmid where it is made into this gorgeous cheese. The end result is a superb cheese with a creamy texture, teeming with that amazing black truffle flavour.

But let’s get Willi to tell us a bit more about his creation:

Where can you find it?
This cheese is currently available at Leo’s Fine Food & Wine in Kew, Victoria.

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This is the artisan cheese you tasted at the French Festival

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Hi Cheese Friend,

You receive this email because you signed up to our newsletter during the French Festival last weekend.

First of all – welcome to our little cheese fan club! It certainly is a privilege to have you amongst us.

How fantastic was the festival? We certainly had a brilliant time – great people, perfect weather and tasty artisan cheese – what else would you want?

Here’s a little summary of the cheeses we had on offer those days:

** Sélection Beeler Vacherin Fribourgeois
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This cheese is a washed rind cheese made from cow’s milk. It is produced exclusively in the alpine region and villages of the canton Fribourg which gives it part of its name. The other part stems from the latin word “vaccarinus” which means “little cow shepherd”. This raw milk cheese has a distinct, tangy, slightly bitter with a superbly creamy finish.

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Sélection Beeler Gruyère AOP
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https://www.alpineexpress.com.au/our-cheese/selection-rolf-beeler-gruyere-aoc/The Gruyère has its origin right in the heart of the foothills of the Fribourg Alps. It is undeniably one of the most influential Swiss cheeses with its history dates back to the pre-Roman era. This particular Gruyère has been fully matured over 18 months and enjoys an aromatic-fruity flavour with a savoury, salty base. It’s simply a Rolf Beeler master cheese.

** Tête de Moine
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https://www.alpineexpress.com.au/Translated this one means “Monks head”. It’s the one we shaved off the mini wheel with that funky apparatus called “Girolle”.

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So where can you find these sensational cheese varieties? You will find our range of artisan raw milk cheeses at a number of locations throughout Melbourne. For example Bill’s Farm at the Queen Victoria Market (in the diary hall), Spring St Grocer at 157 Spring St, next to the parliament or Leo’s Fine Food & Wine in Kew. For a full list of our stockists see our website listing (https://www.alpineexpress.com.au/where-to-buy/) .

Once again, welcome to our artisan cheese club. We will continue to inform you about new varieties, unique cheese events and other specials without spaming your inbox. We promise!

For any other information, have a look at our informative website (https://www.alpineexpress.com.au/) or shoot us an email through the contact form at any time.

Have a great weekend and thank you again for visiting us and our artisan cheese at the French Festival.

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November Artisan Cheese News from The Red Cow

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Introducing the brilliant Spanish bomba rice from Tartana. Don’t they say after cheese comes rice? Well, what’s for sure is that there’s a very good reason behind “the madness” of bringing this artisan product Rolf Beeler discovered in Valencia to Australia. Available now at your premium retailer or in our online shop (https://www.alpineexpress.com.au/products/tartana-bomba-rice/) .

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** We’re at the French Festival 21 – 23 Nov.
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Come and see us at the annual French Festival in Melbourne between 21 and 23 November. The ‘Paris to Provence’ event takes place in the beautiful surrounds of the Como House & Garden in Melbourne’s South Yarra and features everything French and a little bit of Swissness too!
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Cheese knives & more

** The Panorama knives have arrived!
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The unique & wonderful Panorama cheese & bread knives (in the shape of Switzerland’s most famous mountain ranges) have now arrived and are available in our online shop or at your local premium retailer. So why not get your Christmas presents organised early this year?
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Rolf Beeler’s Rice

A while back when I visited Rolf Beeler in Switzerland, he showed me a product he recently discovered in Spain. It was rice, Spanish bomba rice to be precise. The packaging looked amazing and it screamed ‘artisan’ all over it. A little confused, I asked Rolf, why he’s all of a sudden into rice. He replied, look Tom, I love artisan cheese, there’s no doubt about it, but when I stumble upon another product with similar characteristics, i.e. a product that is produced in a sustainable way, with true ‘terroir’ and of the highest possible quality, why shouldn’t I promote it?

It made sense to me and I tried the short grain rice shortly after; in the form of a self-made paella. Holly molly, this rice stayed firm, yet retained all the beautiful flavour of the broth it was cooked in. I found it absolutely stunning. And just to be sure, I cooked another paella with the same recipe but chose a different bomba rice and the difference couldn’t have been more stark.

Back in Australia, I showed my sample to John Lawson from No. 8 by John Lawson at the Crown Casino. He had a similar reaction like I did with Rolf at first, but once he tried a batch, he called me straight away and let me know about his excitement. You can even see some of his beautiful creations, like a truffle rice pudding or a gorgeous rice salad on our Tartana Bomba Rice product page.

Today, you find the rice in its ‘gourmet’, 500g size at many premium retailers around Melbourne. For example Leo’s Fine Food & Wine (all stores), Spring St Grocer in Melbourne’s CBD, Bill’s Farm at the Queen Victoria Market or Delicatess in the Prahran Market. We even have it in our online store and ship it nationwide.

Seriously, do yourself a favour, try it – you won’t be disappointed.

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Geneva to Paris to Provence – the French Festival

This year we’re trying out a new festival – the French Festival dubbed ‘Paris to Provence’. The 3-day event will take place Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 21 – 23 November 2014 in the beautiful surrounds of the Como House & Garden in South Yarra, Melbourne.

Each year the National Trust property of Como House and Gardens transforms into a replica French pop-up village where you can smell, touch and taste all that embodies France and truly captures a vibrant and lively French village atmosphere.

Did I just write French atmosphere? Mais non, well, at least it will be a very “Suisse” influenced atmosphere at our stand as The Red Cow is exclusively showcasing cheese from the French part of Switzerland or as they say “de la Suisse Romande”. I won’t take away the surprise of what these cheeses actually are, but it’s certainly worth a visit!

You can pre-purchase tickets already (cheaper!) or buy them at the entrance. We’re there Friday 12pm to 8pm, Saturday 10am to 6pm and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Come and say “bonjour”!

Paris to Provence – French Festival 2014
21 to 23 November 2014
Como House & Garden, South Yara
http://www.paristoprovence.com.au/