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What to eat in Franche-Comté? Top 3 Franc-Comtois Natural Rind Cheeses

Last update: Fri Apr 18 2025
Top 3 Franc-Comtois Natural Rind Cheeses
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Best Franc-Comtois Natural Rind Cheese Types

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FRANCHE-COMTÉ, France
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Comté
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Comté is a big, hard cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk, with at least 45% fat and a pressed, cooked paste. Each cheese wheel is unique with numerous taste varieties that can range from milky, spicy, roasted to fruity, buttery or plant-like due to the fact the milk it is made from must be used immediately.


It is made in the Jura massif in the caves of Doubs, Jura and Haute-Saône departments in France. The maturation period lasts at least 120 days and it is turned and scrubbed regularly during the process. Comté also has a seasonal stamp, like winter, summer, mountain Comté or plains Comté. 
THE BEST Comté Cheeses
1 Comté AOP plus de 24 mois
Fromager Marie-Anne Cantin
Comté AOP plus de 24 mois

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2 Comté
Fromagerie Chez Virginie
Comté

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3 Comté
Cremerie Marcel Petite
Comté

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4 Comtés Juraflore à La Coupe
JuraFlore - Fort des Rousses
Comtés Juraflore à La Coupe

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5 Comté Fort des Rousses 24 mois
JuraFlore - Fort des Rousses
Comté Fort des Rousses 24 mois

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Cheese

DOUBS, France
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Also known as Vacherin du Haut-Doubs, Mont d'Or is a soft cheese made from raw cow's milk in the Haut-Doubs region in France. What's unique about Mont d'Or's visual appearance is that it is encircled by spruce bark strips and packaged in a spruce wooden box that keeps the cheese in place.


It has a full, rich, sweet and grassy flavor and a slightly acidic taste. Its rind is not edible like in most other French cheeses, so it has to be removed to get to the creamy, runny, almost liquid inside, when fully ripe. As the cheese is already almost melting, it can be eaten like a fondue and enjoyed with sparkling wines.

THE BEST Mont d'Or Cheeses
1 Mont d'Or à la truffe
Fromagerie Quatrehomme
Mont d'Or à la truffe

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2 Mont d'or AOP
Napiot Fromagerie
Mont d'or AOP

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Bleu du Haut-Jura or Bleu de Septmoncel is a blue, uncooked and unpressed cheese made from the unpasteurized milk of two cow breeds. It has pale blue/green moldy veins dispersed throughout its soft, white/ivory colored body with a creamy, crumbly texture.


The rind must have the word Gex embossed on it. Its smell is intense and earthy, and it has a characteristically mild, acidic, nutty and buttery taste because it is, after all, one of the mildest French cheeses. Slightly spicy, peppery notes come from the blue veins. 
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