Dan McElligot, Certified Cheese Specialist at Dole & Bailey.
Our favorite seminar at Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival 2019 was the cheese and port wine pairing conducted by Dan McElligot of Dole & Bailey, one of the major sponsors of the weekend. First off, this guy KNOWS his cheese. We tasted a very buttery, creamy Torta del Casar soft cheese which was matched with Graham's 10 Tawny Port. Absolutely beautiful. Taken together the combination leaves a smooth layer of an almost chocolate flavor on the tongue.
Second was the Highlon Blue Stilton Cheese (made in Lee, MA) and paired with Don's 2012 Late Bottled Vintage Porto. The cheese had none of that moldy sort of taste that turns some people off of a good blue cheese. Speckled with ribbons of red (signifying a newer cheese) and black, the pairing, again, was a sheer flavor delight.
We'll be on the lookout for all of these products and are now inspired to have our own port and cheese tastings with family and friends.
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We were invited to this event as members of the media with no promise of any editorial consideration.
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