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Soignon, Poitou

Soignon – a popular goat’s milk cheese from the Poitou. Soignon is a full-cream goat’s milk cheese, with a soft pâte and mouldy rind. The fat content is ... Read more!

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Sainte-Maure de Touraine

Sainte-Maure de Touraine – a goat’s milk cheese from the Loire Valley. Sainte-Maure de Touraine, made with full-cream goat’s milk, is a soft pâte cheese with a grey ... Read more!

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Sainte-Maure Caprifeuille, Poitou

Sainte-Maure Caprifeuille – a goat’s milk cheese from Poitou-Charentes. Sainte-Maure Caprifeuille is a raw, semi-soft goats milk cheese, with a thin consistent and wrinkled rind with superficial grey-white ... Read more!

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Roquefort Cheese, Rouergue

Roquefort – the king of blue cheese from the Rouergue (département of Aveyron). Roquefort is made exclusively from raw full-cream ewe’s milk and is a blue vein cheese. The ... Read more!

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Reblochon, Savoie

Reblochon is a semi-hard cheese from Savoie. Reblochon is a full-cream raw cow’s milk cheese with a pressed and uncooked pâte. The fat content is at least 45%. ... Read more!

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Pont l’Évêque, Normandy

Pont l’Évêque is a cheese with a brushed yellow-orange to straw yellow rind. Pont l’Évêque is a cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte, a washed yellow-orange to ... Read more!

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Ossau-Iraty Cheese

Ossau-Iraty – a full-cream ewe’s milk cheese from the Pyrenees. Ossau-Iraty is a full-cream ewe’s milk cheese with a slightly pressed and uncooked pâte and a natural yellow-orangey ... Read more!

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Morbier, Franche-Comté

Morbier – a washed rind cheese from the Franche-Comté region. Morbier is a raw cow’s milk cheese made from uncooked pressed scalded curds. The fat content is at ... Read more!

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Maroilles, Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Maroilles is a typical cheese from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. It is a cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte (uncooked and unpressed) and with a moist, brick red, washed ... Read more!

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Livarot, Normandy

Livarot, a cow’s milk cheese from Normandy nicknamed “the colonel”. Livarot is a cheese made from raw or pasteurised cow’s milk. It has a soft pâte and a ... Read more!

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Fromager d’affinois

Fromager d’affinois, a best-seller in Australia rich in calcium. Fromager d’affinois is a pasteurized cow’s milk cheese, with a soft and mouldy rind. The fat content is 30%. ... Read more!

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Fleur du Maquis, Corsica

Fleur du Maquis, one of the few Corsican cheese available outside France. The cheese is also known as ‘Brin d’amour’ and ‘Petit-Corse’. Fleur du Maquis is an unpressed, ... Read more!

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Epoisses, Burgundy

Epoisses, a cow’s milk cheese from Burgundy. Epoisses is a full-cream cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte and a washed rind. The fat content is at least ... Read more!

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Comté Cheese

Comté, a cow’s milk and hard cheese from the Franche-Comté region. Comté is a cow’s milk cheese made from pressed scalded curds with a golden-yellow to brown firm ... Read more!

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Camembert, Normandy

Camembert, France’s most famous cheese from Normandy. Camembert is a raw cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte and a white mouldy rind which may have red stains. ... Read more!

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Brillat-Savarin, Burgundy

Brillat-Savarin is a delightful and creamy cheese to the palate. Brillat-Savarin is a cow’s milk cheese with a soft pâte and a bloomy and fluffy rind. The fat ... Read more!

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Beurre and Crème d’Isigny, Normandy

Beurre and Creme d’Isigny – the butter and crème fraiche from the village of Isigny in Normandy cannot be mistaken for another make! The minimum fat content of ... Read more!

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Beaufort cheese: Things you should know

Beaufort is a hard cheese produced in the alpine valleys of Savoie (Tarentaise, Maurienne and Beaufortain). This cooked and pressed cheese is made with full-cream raw cow’s milk. The fat content is ... Read more!

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French cheese: facts and figures

Every region in France supports a large population of milk-giving animals which provide the raw material for French cheese. Therefore, there are more than 400 French cheese varieties ... Read more!

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