Cheeses

Washed-rind cheese

Washed and brushed with brine throughout maturation, the orange rind of these cheeses carries a powerful aroma — Munster, Époisses, Maroilles.

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This category brings together soft, unpressed cheeses whose rind becomes coated in an orange-red morge through repeated washings during maturation — often with brine, sometimes with alcohol. The scent is assertive, and the flavour very often less pronounced than the aroma — Munster, Époisses, Langres, Livarot, Maroilles, Mont d'Or, Pont-l'Évêque, Soumaintrain. In Alsace and Bourgogne, washed-rind cheeses dominate. It differs from bloomy-rind cheeses, which are covered in a white down of mould rather than washed.

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Boulette d'Avesnes A brick-red cone born from Maroilles leftovers — Boulette d'Avesnes wastes nothing and spares no one… Auvergne Chambérat In the Bocage bourbonnais, an almost vanished raw-milk cheese, narrowly saved by the stubborn… AOCPDO Burgundy Époisses A cheese of uncompromising character, with an orange rind washed with marc de Bourgogne — one of the… AOCPDO Champagne-Ardenne Langres A few drops of Marc de Bourgogne or Champagne are poured into its golden cuvette: Langres is as much… AOCPDO Normandy Livarot The Colonel of the Pays d'Auge — this russet, banded cheese, with its intense aroma and melting paste… AOCPDO Nord-Pas-de-Calais Maroilles “Maroilles is the king of cheeses, and the king of cheeses is Thiérache…” AOCPDO Franche-Comté Mont d'Or / Vacherin du Haut-Doubs Each autumn, when the cows descend from the snow-covered alpine pastures, Mont d'Or reappears — runny… AOCPDO Alsace Munster / Munster-Géromé A cheese with an orange-tinted rind and a powerful aroma, born in the valleys of the Vosges — a living… AOCPDO Normandy Pont-l'Évêque The oldest of Norman cheeses, born in the heart of the Pays d'Auge in its neighbouring village, in the… Picardy Rollot In 1678, on the road to Flanders, Louis XIV tasted this small, orange-rinded Picard cheese and enjoyed… PGI Burgundy Soumaintrain “From the archives of the Cistercian abbey of Pontigny to the tables of the Yonne, Soumaintrain carries…