Aldi's borgonzola is an Emporium Selection cheese created by combining gorgonzola and brie cheese-making techniques. The product is sold as a 9-ounce round for about $4.95 and is labeled as made in the U.S. The cheese aims for a creamy, silky texture with blue veins from penicillium roqueforti. The actual flavor profile is described as rubbery, sour, pungent, and bitter rather than balanced or tangy. The taste tilts toward acidity instead of sharpness, lacking harmony between components. Comparable borgonzola cheeses are produced by other brands such as Albert's Leap and Eiffel Tower.
Borgonzola? A made-up word? Sort of, but it's a real product, so we were interested in figuring out if it shared any similarities with the cheeses it's technically a hybrid of: gorgonzola and brie. In reality, Aldi's borgonzola cheese combines the worst parts of brie cheese with the worst parts of blue cheese, leading to a rubbery, sour, off-putting product.
Aldi's borgonzola cheese is part of the Emporium Selection brand, Aldi's private-label for cheeses. It's sold in a 9-ounce round for about $4.95 with a description that says it's made in the U.S., but, similar to gorgonzola cheese (which has an origin shrouded in legend), borgonzola is an Italian creation. Borgonzola is made through the combination of gorgonzola and brie cheese-making techniques, giving it a creamy, silky texture, and those traditional blue veins caused by penicillium roqueforti, which are typically found in gorgonzola cheese.
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