French, Cow milk, Hard texture cheese
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For more information on our Gourmet Cheeseclick here  From: $9.70 Comté A.O.C. is an ancient French gourmet cheese, also known as Gruyere de Comte; it is made in the Massif of the Jura, a region composed of medium range mountains situated in Franche-Comté, which lies between the Vosges and the Haute-Savoie. The Montbeliard cow is the only breed of cattle whose milk is authorized for making Comté.
The cheese is hard, straw-colored, contains some medium-size holes and has a tendency to crack on cutting. Comté has a floral aroma with nutty fudge flavors developing in the more mature cheese. The taste is full of nuts and toffee with a lovely long and salty finish. Older cheeses take on a strong, farmyard-like character. The cheese has a thin beige rind which ... |  Hurry only 2 left at this price. Was $13.82 Sale Price: $10.37 Mimolette is a gourmet cheese that looks like an orange soccer ball with a light powdering of snow. This mature version of the French cheese from Normandy is a pressed cooked cheese that is aged for 12 months.
Mimolette has a distinctive flavor of butterscotch and caramel. The rind is fairly smooth in the young cheese but, as it ages, it becomes thick and deeply pitted. Cheese mites proliferate in these pits to give the characteristic powdery appearance of the older cheese.
The paste is dyed to a deep orange color which darkens toward the rind. The texture is hard-firm and breaks rather like fudge.... |
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