Green Pesto Gouda Near You
In store
You have typed the name into a search bar, and now you want to know which chiller to look in. Start with the specialty cheese fridge rather than the block cheddar shelf. It is sold as a wedge, so you are looking for a cut face and a piece of rind edge, not a moulded rectangle. The retail pack is 180 g, which is about the size that sits in a basket next to the bread without much thought.
Shops change what they carry, and the list we keep is the one worth trusting. Have a look at Where to Buy Gouda in NZ before you drive across town, and check what is near you there.
If you find it, treat it like any cheese you have brought home. Take it out of the fridge and let it sit on the bench a while before you cut into it. Cold cheese is quiet. Cheese that has come up to room temperature is not.
Online
If nothing close to you has it, order it instead. The product page is here: Green Pesto Gouda. It is the same wedge you would find in a chiller, in the same 180 g pack.
The cheese comes into New Zealand as whole wheels, gets cut and packed in Auckland, and goes out around the country from there. So the pack that arrives at your door was not sitting in a warehouse in that shape for months. It was a wheel until it was your wedge.
Order it for the week, not for an occasion. It goes in a sandwich on a Tuesday as happily as it goes on a board.
And if you want something to do with it beyond a sandwich, our pesto gouda pasta is the one we make most.
What freshly cut actually means
It is a phrase that gets used loosely, so here is what it means for us. The cheese is imported as whole wheels and cut here in New Zealand. It is not cut and packed in Europe, shipped as small pieces, and landed weeks later.
That matters for a simple reason. Every cut is a new surface. Wrapped soon after the knife goes through it, that surface stays as the cheesemaker left it. Cut early and shipped far, and the edges have had a long time to sit against plastic before you get to them.
There is nothing clever about it. A wheel travels better than a wedge does. Cutting at the end of the journey rather than the start is just the sensible order to do things in.
If you are a cafe or a deli
The cutting happens here, so there is a conversation to be had about what suits your kitchen. Tell us what you go through in a week and how you like it delivered, and we will work out what makes sense.
Start at Wholesale Gouda for NZ Foodservice and send through what you need.