Tomme d'Abondance or Abondance is a medium-sized mountain cheese from the Haute Savoie region of France in the Rhone-Alps. For centuries, this deep golden cheese has been made in mountain chalets, near the border between France and Switzerland. It is made exclusively from unpasteurised milk produced by the Abondance breed of cattle. Since 1990, the cheese has been enjoying the prestigious AOC designation. The handcrafted, wheel shaped cheese, is made using traditional methods only in the geographical area specified by AOC/PDO label.
It has a strong smell and an intensely fruity, buttery and hazelnut flavour, with balance of acidity and sweetness, followed by a lingering aftertaste. Unearth an aroma of nutty vegetation as you slice the cheese. However, remember the crust including the grey layer beneath, should be removed before eating. Firm but supple and slightly grainy, the texture of the ivory-yellow pâté is creamy and velvety. Its rind is smooth with an amber colour showing canvas marks. The affinage takes at least 100 days, so all the subtle aromas are realized.
Abondance can be eaten straight off, or added to salads or melted in Berthoud. A very special cheese, it pairs well with Malbec and Cabernet Sauvignon.

Abondance

It is a creamy cheese like a brie and tastes little sweet and buttery, made from sheep's milk. It is soft-ripened cheese with a bloomy rind and pleasant tangy taste. Its orangy rind is formed due to annato sprinkled on cheese during maturation. Made in in Lyon, France this cheese is super soft and can at times run freely.

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Fromi

Morbier is a semi-soft cow’s milk cheese named after the small village of Morbier in Franche-Comté. The cheese has an ivory colour, and it is a bit soft and fairly elastic. It gets immediately identified because of its black layer of tasteless ash, which separates horizontally in the middle. Earlier, Morbier was made by a layer of the morning and the evening milk, but these days it is made by a single milking, while ash is added to it to follow the tradition. The cheese takes about 45 days to 3 months for full maturation with yellowish, moist and leathery rind.
Together with 45% fat, it is protected by AOC designation. Morbier has a rich and creamy flavour with small eyes or holes. Sometimes, the cheese leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste and has strong aroma as well. Try this cheese with Gewurztraminer or Pinot Noir.

Morbier

Entremont

Azeitão is a DOP protected, handcrafted, unpasteurised sheep's milk cheese made at the foothills of the Arrábida Mountains in the south west of Portugal. It is a produced only in the demarcated municipalities of Setubal, Palmela and Sesimbra.

Azeitão is a cured cheese, of a buttery, pudding-like, semi-soft consistency, white or light yellow in colour, with few or no holes. Since the flower of the locally grown cardoon plant acts as a coagulant, it is truly a vegetarian cheese. Its taste has a mix of sour and salty with a continual herbaceousness. The cheese has a minimum curing time of 21 days.

Azeitao

Queijaria Simões

Emental Grand Cru, also spelled as Emmental Grand Cru, originates from Switzerland. Its production zone covers the area from Vosges to Savoie via Franche-Comté, where the master cheese makers produce this famous pressed cheese.

Emmental Grand Cru swanks the 'Red Label' and the 'IGP' as well. While the 'Red Label' guarantees the quality of ingredients, IGP (Indication Géographique Protégée meaning Protected Geographical Indication) symbolizes a production process that adheres to the traditional method of cheese making which does not allow additives or colouring agents.

Emmental Grand Cru is made from raw milk of cows that are fed on the grass from high mountain meadows and on hay which has no ensilage. It is a large cheese with cooked and pressed pâté. It has a sweet aroma and dry, washed and brushed rind.

Cheeses stamped as Emmental and Switzerland is considered as authentic cheese. Those labeled as Emmental Grand Cru are made with raw milk whereas regular French Emmental is made from pasteurised milk.

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