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'There's a delicious pecorino if you would like to try; it's truly exceptional'. Pecorino is one of the least attractive cheeses imaginable;sour, sweating, salty, with a lingering after -taste.

Is its truly exceptionalness an exaggeration of these qualities - or their amelioration?

'It's Sardinian!' Does that make it worse or better? Aren't qualities supposed to act as a guide?