Gurdal's staff traverses the globe hunting down new finds for its customers. The store's cheeses come from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, England and Ireland.
"The cheeses I find are farmhouse cheeses, where the farmer knows every cow's name," says Gurdal.
In his tour for the Montral women, Gurdal details the story behind the bleu de Termignon.
It comes from a 91-year-old French woman who lives in the mountains and owns nine cows. The woman has been making the cheese all her life, but uses only the summer milk of her cows.
A wheel of Comt Badoz was made and aged in a German bunker left over from World War II. After the war, a French war veteran bought the tunnel from the French government and holed up in it, finding the atmosphere perfect for making cheese.
"I find that the personality of the farmer trickles down to the product," Gurdal says.
Though the cheese cave sets Gurdal's store apart, the rest of the products have just as much personality.
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