This goat milk brie style cheese has a soft bloomy rind and a rich creamy interior. The flavors are mild, delicate, and creamy, unlike most goat cheeses that usually have a tangy and sharp flavor. It is recommended to serve Florette with crusty bread, mushrooms, potatoes, and fresh or dried fruit.
Pair it with light, fruity ales or sparkling wines.
With an orange tinted rind, Fromager d’Affinois Pumpkin seeds makes for a striking presentation on a Fall cheese platter and brings the best of both worlds together the crunchiness of the seeds and the the crunchiness of the seeds and the ooziness of a double cream cheese.
The gentle tastes of pear and honey are ideal with the light, slightly acidic taste of fresh cheeses. The taste is delicately enhanced by a touch of spice, which brings a subtle autumnal flavour. Equally good with soft rinded cheeses.
The Folies Fromages preserves contain less sugar than jams but are made according to the same process. All our “Folies” are cooked in small quantities in a copper cauldron, fuelled by a steam boiler that makes the cooking shorter and homogeneous.
Mimolette has a distinctive flavor of butterscotch and caramel. The texture is hard-firm and breaks rather like fudge. This French cheese pairs nicely with a Pinot Noir or a fine Ale.
Morbier is an aromatic and surprisingly mild French cow's milk AOC cheese defined by the dark vein of vegetable ash streaking through it middle. Today, the ash is purely decorative, a nod to the method by which Morbier was once produced in Franche-Comté. Traditionally, the evening's fresh curds were sprinkled with ash to prevent the formation of a rind overnight. The next morning, new curds were laid upon the thin layer of ash to finish off the wheel.
Strong tasting, semi-soft cheese made mainly from milk from the Vosges, between Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté in France.
The sticky rind of the cheese has a yellow-orange color that is derived from repeated brine washings over a two to three month time of aging. The mature cheese has a yellow color, a strong aroma, and a distinctively spicy or tangy taste, attributed to the brine washings
Neufchatel is a traditional, soft bloomy rind table cheese, originating from the village of Neufchâtel-en-Bray in northern Normandy. Made from cow’s milk, it is one of France’s oldest cheeses, dating back as far as 1035. The taste and texture is reminiscent of a Camembert; mushroomy, rich, nutty and slightly yeasty.
