DOP Vacherin Mont d'Or from the French region of Franche-Comte Gold Medal - (cow milk)

Delicious soft cheese, matured in Franche-Comte and its immediate surroundings, Vacherin Mont-d'Or is a delight for gourmets, from October to April.

Dessert cheese, it works wonders with good crusty bread and a glass of wine.

Each Mons cheese is individually "affine" or refined meaning treated according to the technical process that create, ripen and develop cheese: regulated temperature, humidity, position within the different caves, whether the cheese should be kept wrapped or unwrapped, and on what the cheese should rest - great slabs of wood, or straw matting.

Herve Mons is Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000.