Longtime friends Ruth and Charlie Clark know their cheeses and are always surprising me with a new find.

Last summer, when we were visiting them at their Denver home, Ruth brought out a tray of cheeses to nibble with our glasses of wine.

One cheese, the Cypress Grove Truffle Tremor, made us ooh and aah.

It was a ripened goat-milk cheese flecked with truffle pieces, served at the perfect room temperature, allowing the soft cheese to ooze onto crackers.

The smell of truffle coupled with the delicious chévre flavor instantly made it the cheese star on the tray.

Ruth had gotten the cheese at the Whole Foods Market near their home in Cherry Creek.

So I thought I wouldn’t have any problem finding it at the Whole Food Markets here.

Wrong. They didn’t have it. That is until just the last few weeks when I spotted some.

It’s expensive at $24.99 a pound, but the exceptional flavor is worth a splurge now and then. And every so often it goes on sale for $21.99 a pound.

If you want to impress your dinner guests, offer a tiny wedge of this exceptional cheese.

While digging around the cheese department of Whole Foods Market, I lucked upon a very good, extra-creamy fresh mozzarella by Euro Pomella. It’s called Mozzarella Bufala and worth hunting down to enjoy with the last of the summer’s fresh tomatoes.

It costs $10.99 for a container with two balls of cheese.

On my continued search for burrata cheese I learned that Mollica’s Italian Market & Deli, 985 W. Garden of the Gods Road, had finally gotten some in the store.

I swung by to check it out and found that it was a different version of the creamy cheese I had had in Italy and restaurants recently — but still very good. Cantare Burrata comes in a water-filled container and is described as fresh mozzarella cheese filled with mascarpone. I picked up a carton and found that it was very good, indeed, even if a little different in texture.

The flavor was delicious.

Before I checked out, I was shown another product being made at Mollica’s using burrata: Spinach Burrata Cheese Ravioli.

I picked up a bag of the frozen pasta for dinner that night. It’s amazingly good.

All you need to finish the dish is a brown butter sauce with some fresh sage leaves.

The ravioli costs $15.59 a pound.

So now you can get out of any cheese rut you have been in and try some different fromages.

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Farney appears Tuesdays onKOAA’s Comcast Channel 5 at noon.

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