Wine Recommendations
This cheese is relatively lightly smoked, with more 'goat' flavour than smoke predominating. Goat's cheese is high in acidity, and demands similarly acidic wine partners. This is reinforced by the smoking, so all the wines that match have good acidity, or the tanginess of Retsina.

Sweet white Bordeaux ****
Retsina ****
Red Bordeaux **

Suggested Recipe

Pumpkin Soup with Smoked Goats Cheese Toasts

(Serves 4)

1kg butternut pumpkin, peeled, deseeded and cut into chunks
1 small onion, peeled and chopped
1 clove garlic chopped
knob of butter
750mls chicken stock
1/4 tsp fresh grated nutmeg
Double cream to serve
1 small french bread stick, cut into 8 slices
2 smoked goatís cheeses
2tblsp creme fraiche
1tsp chopped fresh rosemary

Heat the butter in a large pan and cook the onion and garlic gently for a few minutes until softening. Add the butternut and stock and simmer together for 15 mins. Remove from the heat and whiz in a blender to a smooth consistency. Add the nut meg and season well. Return to the pan and keep warm.

Mash the goats cheese along with the creme fraiche and rosemary. Toast the bread slices then spread with the goats cheese mixture. Place the toasts on a baking tray and grill until golden and bubbling.

Serve the soup with a swirl of cream and the goats cheese toasts on the side.

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