No other country offers as many cheeses as does France. With literally hundreds of gourmet cheeses begging to be tasted, what’s a cheese-lover to do? From the creamiest Brie to the spiciest Roquefort, consider this selection the “must try” list!
We're happy to bring you this cheese from the Pays Basque region of Aquitaine (French Pyrenees). Its milk comes from red-nosed Manech ewes raised on farms adjacent to the A... [Read more]
Abondance, a name-controlled gourmet cheese from the Savoy region of France, is made with fresh partially-skimmed milk and formed into 20-pound wheels. This extraordinary c... [Read more]
Banon is a northern Provencal cheese that comes in a 3.5-ounce mini wheel, traditionally washed with eau-de-vie (marc), wrapped in chestnut or grape leaves, and tied with r... [Read more]
This blue cheese from southeastern France is creamier than Roquefort, owing to the fact that it is made from cow's milk rather than sheep's. The terrain near Auvergne is cr... [Read more]
The Rouergue is one of the most famous cheese producing regions in all of France, as well as one of the most famous blue cheese regions in the entire world. It is here, dee... [Read more]
You will absolutely love this delicious, extra-creamy 1/2 kilo (over 1 pound) Brie. This custom-sized Brie is of outstanding quality, very much unlike any supermarket versi... [Read more]
We always welcome the arrival of Autumn because it heralds the start of the Brie season. The most prized and celebrated of all French cheeses, Brie is believed to have been... [Read more]
This decadent triple cream cheese should only be eaten with friends! It is one of the richest cheeses you will ever taste, so a full pound of it will easily serve 12 people... [Read more]
This wonderful goat cheese from Poitou in the Loire Valley comes to us in handcrafted wooden crates containing two four pound logs of the most exquisite chevre we have ever... [Read more]
Unlike our other French Camembert, this one comes from Normandy, where Camembert was first created in 1791 by Marie Harel. During the French Revolution, a recalcitrant prie... [Read more]
Cantal is one of the oldest French Cheeses, predating both Roquefort (11th Century) and Livarot (13th Century). In fact, Pliny the Elder mentions Cantal in his Historia Nat... [Read more]
Chabichou du Poitou was first created way back in the eighth century, and has a long and interesting history. One of the most popular cheeses in Arabia, its name is derived... [Read more]
Made in a tiny town in the Burgundy region of France, Epoisses is one of the great gourmet cheeses of the world. It is a name-controlled cheese that has a very pungent arom... [Read more]
This AOC (name controlled) creamy blue cheese is a lovely French treasure. "Fourme" is the old French word for cheese from the Latin noun forma , describing its c... [Read more]
This extra creamy goat's milk cheese from France is satiny-smooth with a firm, slightly chewy, edible white crust. Its flavor is all goat - tangy and rustic with hints of l... [Read more]
Made from a centuries-old recipe, 70-pound wheels of Gruyere de Comte (Comte, for short) have been produced since the reign of Charlemagne, when there were no separate enti... [Read more]
French Mimolette, also called "Boule de Lille", dates back to the reign of Louis XIV, who prohibited the import of Dutch cheeses into France. The residents of Fla... [Read more]
The first wheels of Morbier ever produced were made from milk leftover from Gruyere de Comte production. The cheesemaker would press the leftover curd from the evening prod... [Read more]
Similar to Brillat Savarin but from farther south in France (the Champagne region), this triple-creme owes its name to two friends who created it back in the 1970's. The mo... [Read more]
One of the world's ancient cheeses, Pont L'Eveque dates back to the Thirteenth Century. Made on the coast of Normandy on small farms that use rich salt milk, Pont L'Eveque ... [Read more]
The origin of Port Salut (also known as Saint Paulin) is closely linked to the French Revolution of 1789. Fleeing from the persecutions of the "Terror", a congreg... [Read more]
This world famous Roquefort is a noble, all-natural ewe's milk blue cheese from the Auvergne region of France. Papillon (which means butterfly in French) wraps their top-of... [Read more]
With Roquefort's fine, milky-white body veined with emerald green, and its well-balanced flavor, this blue cheese has been appreciated for generations. The secret of Roquef... [Read more]
Roquefort is the ancient blue cheese from the Rouergue, a small region of southern France. It ranks with Stilton and Gorgonzola as the three musketeers of blue cheese, sett... [Read more]
Named for its producer, St. Andre Creamery located in France, this soft ripened triple cream is an amazingly rich and creamy cheese that is made from fresh cow's milk and e... [Read more]
Auvergne is a mountainous region in the center of France that consists of rugged mountain ranges cut by four great rivers: the Loire, the Cher, the Dordogne, and the Lot. T... [Read more]
The word tomme implies that a cheese is made from the milk of more than one herd. Tomme de Savoie is made by an expert cheesemaker and is always of exceptional quality. It ... [Read more]
Long viewed as a pillar of the gourmet world, we could not help but to create the ultimate French gourmet cheese & meat sampler! Francophiles everywhere will find somet... [Read more]
When the word cheese is mentioned, most of us immediately think of France. We can't help it; it's a knee-jerk reaction. As excellent as are the hundreds of cheeses that ori... [Read more]
Made for those cheese lovers with a taste for robust flavors and aromatic cheeses. Our French Cheeses for the Connoisseur is perfect for a Francophile-centric fromagier, or... [Read more]
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