Wegmans Cave-Ripened Triple Creme Brie Wedge — TREAT
Munch or Dump rates Wegmans Cave-Ripened Triple Creme Brie Wedge by Wegmans TREAT — score 45/90.
Six ingredients and every one belongs in cheese: milk, cream, cultures, salt, rennet, calcium chloride. Triple crème means extra cream was added on purpose — roughly 40% fat — so this is indulgence, honestly made and genuinely cave-ripened. Munch-clean label, dessert-level richness: treat it accordingly.
Why this verdict
- Six-ingredient list with zero additives, preservatives, gums, or flavorings — traditional cheesemaking, nothing else
- Triple crème is fat-loading by design: cream added to whole milk pushes it to ~40g fat per 100g, most of it saturated
- Real cave-ripening does the flavor work that lesser products fake with enzymes and flavorings
- Calcium chloride and animal rennet are standard cheesemaking tools, not industrial shortcuts
- Made with animal rennet — not vegetarian, worth knowing before the cheese board
Ingredients (6)
- Pasteurized whole cow's milk (safe) — The base — real dairy, nothing modified.
- cream (safe) — Real butterfat, second on the list.
- Lactic starter cultures (safe) — Live cultures that develop flavor and acidity — traditional fermentation.
- Salt (moderate) — ~260mg sodium per packet — sweet AND salty is the palatability play.
- Animal rennet (safe) — Traditional coagulant — fine for quality, but rules out vegetarians.
- calcium chloride (safe) — A mineral salt that helps pasteurized milk set — standard, benign cheesemaking aid.