France

A rare and delicious triple cream cheese peppered with mustard seeds, made in the little village of Pommard, Burgundy.

This soft, pressed-curd cow’s-milk cheese from France’s Auvergne region is studded with chunks of garlic and cracked peppercorns. The flavor is tart when the cheese is young and underripe, but turns buttery and brie-like, with nearly overwhelming garlic and pepper notes when ripened.

Langres is sticky on the outside, firm and supple on the inside. It is a relatively mild cheese that melts in the mouth. The paste is very creamy, with a pretty pale yellow color, a sweet aroma of lemons, and a touch of bacon. The flavor is strong and the texture is creamy. This is an AOC cheese that has been made for at least 300 years. Until recently, it could only be found in...

Epoisses is a soft, washed rind cheese made with full cream cows’ milk, it has a fat content of at least 50%. The natural pigmentation of the fermenting agents gives the rind an orangey red color. The cheese is a light beige color, with a soft, supple texture and a slightly crumbly center depending on its degree of ripeness.

The soft, uncooked, and un-pressed paste has a distinct pungent yet sweet and creamy flavor resulting from numerous washings with a solution of brine and Marc de Bourgogne. The quantity of Marc de Bourgogne is increased during the maturation period until the cheese develops an excellent orange colored, aromatic and sticky rind.

Livarot is a very strong smelling cheese, but its bark is far worse than its bite. It is considered one of the world’s great table cheeses with a smooth, ripe, slightly spicy flavor. As this cheese matures and comes to room temperature, the texture oozes and becomes nearly liquid. The intensity of flavor also increases at this point, becoming beefy and yeasty. The...

The chief characteristics of this french cheese are firstly the pungent smell, and secondly the soft, smooth paste, with the consistency of melting chocolate. The rind is brick-red, and the paste is fine textured and golden, slightly sticky, and sweet, with the flavor of rich milk, as long as the cheese has been properly matured.

So named because of its shape: a pavé is a small paving stone. This goat’s milk cheese from the Loire Valley is dusted with vegetable ash and has a fudge-like texture. The taste is very clean, mild, and lemony.

A smooth and creamy fresh cow’s milk cheese covered with golden raisins that are macerated in eau-de-vie of Mirabelle and Marc de Bourgogne. This cheese has been made by Fromagerie Delin in Burgundy since 1996. A wonderful dessert cheese.

These small pasteurized truncated logs, pyramids, cylinders and discs that are produced for export to America are received into the caves young, fresh, and wet. They emerge drier, denser and with a fine grey-blue coat of edible mold. Their flavors remain young and slightly acidic, but are buttery and smooth.