{"data":{"slug":"mimolette","name":"Mimolette","country":"France","milk":"cow","style":"hard","style_label":"Hard & aged","strength":4,"strength_label":"Bold","summary":"A bright orange sphere with a pitted rind, courtesy of live mites.","image":"https:\/\/havarti.org\/cheeses\/mimolette\/portrait.svg","url":"https:\/\/havarti.org\/cheeses\/mimolette","region":"Lille \/ Flanders","aka":"Boule de Lille","texture":"Hard and granular, snapping rather than bending","rind":"Grey, cratered, worked over by cheese mites","age":{"min_months":6,"max_months":24,"label":"6 mo \u2013 2 yr"},"description":"Made after Colbert banned Dutch imports in the seventeenth century, so France could have its own Edam. Annatto gives it the deep orange; the moon-crater rind is the work of *Acarus siro*, cheese mites deliberately introduced to aerate it.\n\nExtra-vieille at two years is hard, brittle and tastes of butterscotch and hazelnut, with a salty caramel finish. American customs has taken issue with the mites more than once.","flavour_notes":["butterscotch","hazelnut","caramel","salt"],"pairings":["Belgian dubbel","Mustard","Dark rye","Aged rum"],"vegetarian":null,"pasteurised":true,"tasting_notes":{"count":0,"average_rating":null},"related":[{"slug":"beaufort","name":"Beaufort","url":"https:\/\/havarti.org\/api\/cheeses\/beaufort"},{"slug":"aged-gouda","name":"Aged Gouda","url":"https:\/\/havarti.org\/api\/cheeses\/aged-gouda"},{"slug":"appenzeller","name":"Appenzeller","url":"https:\/\/havarti.org\/api\/cheeses\/appenzeller"},{"slug":"avonlea-clothbound-cheddar","name":"Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar","url":"https:\/\/havarti.org\/api\/cheeses\/avonlea-clothbound-cheddar"}]}}