We always say that nothing helps one recover from a Halloween candy binge like an all-natural, artisanal farmstead cheese. So we’ve filled our usual post-sellout void with wheel after delicious, three-pound wheel of Point Reyes Original Blue cheese. Family-made yet world-renowned, this creamy, mild blue cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the world. Go on, try it. We dare you.

See, a closed herd of Holstein cows graze year-round on the pastured hills overlooking Tomales Bay an hour or so north of San Francisco. The Giacomini family, who’ve been raising milk cows here since 1959, craft the cheese with that milk when it’s just hours old. Then it ages for a minimum of six months in the salty Pacific breeze. The result is fuller of flavor and creamier of texture than the usual blue – not to mention about a hundred times awesomer.

Don’t be intimidated by the size of the three-pound wheel. It's maybe the size of a frolf disc, or a discus, just a little taller. And it’s not like you have to eat it in one sitting, although you may want to. Give your party guests an hour or two and they’ll devour every crumb. If you don’t have any friends, keep it in the fridge for high-class snacking and the world's greatest cheeseburgers. You won’t think three pounds is too much when you’re ravenously scraping the last specks of it from the wrapper.

It’s not often you run into a cheese that exhibits its own distintive terroir. It’s even less often you run into one that’s this exquisitely flavored. And you’ll almost never run into one at this price. If we could find a deal like this every week, you’d be reading this on Cheese.Woot.

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