Where to Buy Tricolore Gouda in NZ
In store
If you are after tricolore gouda in person, start with our own list of stockists. You will find it on Where to Buy Gouda in Auckland &, and that page is the one we keep current.
Buying cheese face to face has its advantages. You can see the paste, ask what has just been cut, and pick up something else for dinner while you are there. It is also easier to judge how much you need when the pack is in your hand.
What you are looking for on the shelf is a retail pack of 180 g. That is a useful size. It is enough for a board with a few other things on it, and small enough that you are not committing your week to one cheese.
If you get to the counter and they are out, the online option below covers the rest of the country.
Online
You can order this cheese from us directly. The product page is here: Tricolor Gouda.
Ordering online suits people who are not near a stockist, and people who would rather not make a special trip. It is the same 180 g pack.
A few practical notes. Keep the cheese in the coldest part of your fridge, in its wrapping or in something airtight once you have opened it. Take it out twenty minutes or so before you eat it, because cold flattens flavour. And do not feel you need an occasion for it. A wedge in the fridge on a Tuesday is a good thing to have.
If you are ordering for a group, work out roughly how much you want per person first, then order in whole packs.
What freshly cut actually means
Here is the part that matters most, and it is the reason this cheese tastes the way it does when it reaches you.
We bring Dutch cheese into New Zealand as whole wheels, cut it here, and send it out from there. So the wheel travels intact. It is not portioned overseas, sat in a warehouse in small pieces, then shipped again.
That is worth something to you in practical terms. A cut face is where a cheese starts to dry and dull. The fewer days between the knife and your fridge, the more of the cheese you actually get — the smell when you open it, the texture at the edge of the wedge, the savoury note that goes first when a piece has been sitting cut for too long.
It also means the pack you buy was cut and wrapped in Auckland by people who handle these wheels every day.
If you are a cafe or a deli
If you are buying for a business rather than a household, the retail pack is the wrong shape for you. We handle foodservice separately, and the details are on Wholesale Gouda for NZ Foodservice.
Tell us what you are doing with it — a cheese board, a toastie, a platter you build every morning — and we can point you at the right format and quantity.