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Hi French language and France lovers,
France has thousand different cheese varieties, including soft cheeses (Camembert, Coulommiers, Munster), blue-veined cheeses (Roquefort, Gorgonzola, Bleu d’Auvergne), pressed cooked cheeses (Gruyere, Comté, Parmesan), 45 controlled designations of origin cheeses and 38 protected designations of origin cheeses.
Here is a list of the mon common ones:
Cheese Name | Family | Type |
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A |
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Abondance | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Angors | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Anneau du Vic-Bilh | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Appenzeller | Cow | Pressed cooked |
B |
||
Beaufort AOP | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Bergues Torchon | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Besace Fermière | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Bethmale | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Bichonnet | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Bleu d’Auvergne AOP | Cow | veined |
Bleu de Bonneval | Cow | veined |
Bleu de brebis | Sheep | veined |
Bleu de chèvre | Goat | veined |
Bleu de Gex | Cow | veined |
Bleu de la Chataigneraie | Cow | veined |
Bleu de laqueuille | Cow | veined |
Bleu des Causses AOP | Cow | veined |
Bleu du Val d’Aillon | Cow | Pressed uncooked marbled |
Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage | Cow | veined |
Boulette d’avesnes | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Brézain (Raclette fumée) | Cow | Uncooked pressed, smoke on a wood fire |
Brie de Meaux AOP | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Brie de Melun AOP | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Brie de Nangis | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Brillat-Savarin AOP | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Brillat-Savarin Truffoné | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Brin d’Amour (Fleur du Maquis) | Sheep | Soft with a natural rind |
Briquette | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Briquette de brebis | Sheep | Soft with a natural rind |
Briquette de Cocumont | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Briquette du Cantal | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Briquette du Nord – Domino | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
C |
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Camembert de Normandie AOP | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Cantal AOP | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Cantal (entre-deux) | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Carré blanc | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
Carré du Vinage | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Chabis cendré | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Carré Mirabelle | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Chabis du Béarn | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Chaource fermier AOP | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Charolais AOP | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Château Noir roulé dans la cendre | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Cheddar | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Chèvre cendré de Cocumont | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Chevrillon | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Chevrotin des Aravis | Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Cœur de chèvre | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
Colombier des Aillons | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Compostelle | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Comté AOP | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Cosne du Morvan | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Coulommiers | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Couronne des 4 Montagnes | Cow | Soft with a natural rind |
Couronne lochoise | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Crémeux d’Ossau | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Crott’Indre | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Crottin au poivre | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Crottin de Chavignol | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Crottin du Viornay | Goat | Soft and flowery rind |
Crottin de Cocumont | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
Curé Nantais | Cow | Soft washed rind |
D |
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Doux chêne | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
E |
||
Elgines | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Epoisses | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Etivaz | Cow | Pressed cooked |
F |
||
Fiore di muntagna | Sheep | Soft washed rind |
Feuille du Limousin | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Fleur du Maquis Corse (Brin d’Amour) | Sheep | Soft with a natural rind |
Fontina d’alpage | Cow | veined |
Fourme d’Ambert | Cow | veined |
Fourme de Montbrison | Cow | veined |
Fourme fermière Valcivières | Cow | veined |
G |
||
Galet au Fenugrec | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Galet boisé | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Gaperon | Cow | Soft with a natural rind |
Gaperon au chèvre | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Gorgonzola cremoso AOP | Cow | veined |
Gouda 48 mois | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Gouda au Cumin | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Gouda Truffé | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Grand Carré | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Gruyère français | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Gruyère Suisse d’Alpage AOC | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Guérandais fermier | Goat | Soft washed rind |
H |
||
Hervé doux | Cow | Soft with a natural rind |
J |
||
Jolirond | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
K |
||
Kaltbach | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
L |
||
L’Angors | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Laguiole | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Lambet | Sheep | Soft washed rind |
Langres | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Livarot | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Lorenthym | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Luzenac | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
M |
||
Manchego | Sheep | Uncooked pressed |
Maroilles | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Mascaré | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Massadel fermier | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Mimolette | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Mizotte | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Moelleux du Revard | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Mont d’Or | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Moulis de Vache | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Morbier artisanal | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Mothais sur feuille | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Mozzarella di Bufala Campana | Buffalo cow | Fresh pasta |
Munster au cumin | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Munster-Géromé | Cow | Soft washed rind |
N |
||
Neufchâtel | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
O |
||
Olivet cendré | Cow | Soft with a natural rind |
Ossau-Iraty | Sheep | Uncooked pressed |
P |
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Pardou | Cow / Sheep | Uncooked pressed |
Parmigiano reggiano | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Pavé des Cévennes | Sheep | Soft with a natural rind |
Pavé du Larzac | Sheep | Soft with flower rind |
Pavé Fermier | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Pavin | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Pecorino Stagionato | Sheep | Pressed cooked |
Péraldou | Sheep | Soft with a natural rind |
Persillé de Chèvre | Goat | Marbled dough |
Persillé de Tignes | Cow / Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Petit Gaugry | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Petit Louvie | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Petit Saint Point | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Picodon | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Pierre Blanche | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
Plaisir au Chablis | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Pont l’Évêque | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Pouligny-Saint-Pierre | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Pyramide fermière | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
R |
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Raclette | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Raclette au foin | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Reblochon | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Rigotte de vache | Cow | Soft, natural rind, unpressed and uncooked |
Rocamadour | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Roquefort | Sheep | veined |
Rove fermier | Goat | Fresh |
Rovethym | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
S |
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Saint-Félicien | Cow | Soft with flower rind |
Saint-Marcellin | Cow | Soft with a natural rind |
Saint-Nectaire | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Saint-Paulin | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Sainte-Maure de Touraine | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Salers | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Saulzais | Sheep | Soft cheese with a natural rind |
Sauvaget | Goat | Soft cheese with a natural rind |
Selles-sur-Cher | Goat | Soft with flower rind |
Skieur | Cow | Pressed cooked |
Soumaintrain | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Souréliette | Sheep | Uncooked pressed |
Stilton bleu | Cow | veined |
T |
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Taleggio | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Taupinière | Goat | Soft cheese with a natural rind |
Tome des Bauges AOP | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tome du Cruzille | Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Tome du Ségala | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tome le Saulnois | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme Ail des ours | Cow | Uncooked pressed dough |
Tomme au chniu | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme au foin | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme brossée à la bière | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme crayeuse fermière | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme d’Anjou | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de Berry | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de Brebis du Béarn | Sheep | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de chèvre des Pyrénées | Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de chèvre de Savoie | Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de Montagne | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de Montagne Dent du Chat | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de Savoie | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de vache du Béarn | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme de Yenne | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme des Allobroges | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme du Jura | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme fermière aux fleurs | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme fermière d’Alpage céronnée | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme fermière du pigeon blanc | Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme fermière Savoyarde | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme fumée | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme mixte Chèvre-Brebis | Goat Ewe | Uncooked pressed |
Tomme mixte Vache-Brebis du Béarn | Sheep cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tommette de Chèvre de Savoie | Goat | Uncooked pressed |
Tommette de Missilier | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tommette de Montagne | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Tourret | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
V |
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Vacherin des Bauges | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Vacherin Fribourgeois | Cow | Uncooked pressed |
Vacherin Mont d’Or AOP | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Vacherin Vaudois | Cow | Soft washed rind |
Valençay | Goat | Soft with a natural rind |
Vieux Lille | Cow | Soft washed rind |