Brie de Meaux Rouzaire

This week we're featuring a luscious true brie from the region of Meaux. This brie has authentic full lactic tones with a mottled soft ripening bloomy rind. The aroma is much more earthy than any other brie made for the U.S. Brie de Meaux Rouzaire, manufactured outside of Paris since the 8th century, was originally known as the "King's Cheese" (later, following the French Revolution, the "King of Cheeses") and was enjoyed by the peasantry and nobility alike. It was granted the protection of AOC (Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée) status in 1980, and is produced primarily in the eastern part of the Parisian basin.
Brie is usually purchased either in a full wheel or as a wheel segment. Further sub-division in most homes is subject to social conventions that have arisen in order to ensure that each person partaking in the cheese receives a roughly equal amount of skin. Slices are taken along the radius of the cheese rather than across the point. Removing the more desirable tip from a wedge of brie is known as "pointing the brie" and is widely regarded as a serious social faux pas.