Vacherin Mont d'Or

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Vacherin Mont d'Or - Wikipedia

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Vacherin Mont d'Or

Country of origin	France, Switzerland
Region	Franche-Comté, and Vallée de Joux (canton of Vaud)
Source of milk	Cows
Pasteurized	Traditionally, no
Texture	washed rind soft cheese
Aging time	5-7 weeks
Certification	AOC France 1981; PDO France 1996; AOC France 2003; AOC Switzerland 2003; AOP Switzerland 2013
Named after	Mont d'Or
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Vacherin Mont d'Or (French pronunciation: [vaʃʁɛ̃ mɔ̃ dɔʁ]), or simply Vacherin, is a cow's milk (French vache, "cow") cheese. Two main types of French or Swiss Vacherin cheeses exist.^[1]

One type of Vacherin cheese is called mont d'Or, or Vacherin du Haut-Doubs, from France,^[2]^[3] or Vacherin Mont-d'Or from Switzerland^[3]^[4] (though it tends to just be called Vacherin in the local shops). It is a soft, rich, seasonal cheese made from cow's milk in Switzerland and France, usually in villages of the Jura region (an origin that has been officially controlled since 1981), and has a grayish-yellow washed rind. The cheese is wrapped in a "sangle" made from the cambium of a Norway spruce tree (French: Épicéa commun [fr]) for about two weeks at least, which gives the cheese a unique flavour.^[5] It typically contains 45 to 50 percent milk fat (in dry matter), and is produced between August 15 and March 15, and sold between September 10 and May 10. The Swiss Vacherin Mont d'Or is generally made with thermized milk (pasteurization is not allowed), while the French Vacherin du Haut-Doubs is unpasteurized.^[4]^[6] It is traditionally made in the winter months when the cows come down from Alpage (mountain pastures) and there is not enough milk to make Comté cheese.^[7] It is marketed in round boxes of various diameters made of spruce.^[8] The strips of spruce are harvested by specialists called "sanglier".^[9] It is often served warmed in its original packaging and eaten like fondue.

Officially, the French AOC/PDO allows Artisanal and Coopérative production of Mont d'Or.^[2] There are 11 producers of Vacherin in France (2009).^[7]

Swiss Vacherin Mont d'Or is protected since 2003, by an AOC, and since 2013, by an AOP.^[10]

References

^ Dominik Sauerländer, Anne-Marie Dubler: Käse in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 5 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b 'French Cheeses' , DK, ISBN 1-4053-0666-1
^ ^a ^b 'Cheeses of the World' , RolIand Barthelemy; Arnaud Sperat-Czar, (2001) ISBN 1-84430-115-X
^ ^a ^b "BBC Good Food - Vacherin Profile". Retrieved 28 November 2016.
^ "La sangle d'épicéa, secret d'un goût unique". Vacherin Mont-d'Or (in French). Retrieved 11 December 2022.
^ "Practically Edible - Mont d'or Profile". Archived from the original on 31 August 2010. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Mont d'Or ou Vacherin du Haut-Doubs". inao.gouv.fr. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ Denis Bonnot, Le Vacherin Mont d'Or Franco-Suisse; un fromage qui sort du bois & du froid. Lons-le-Saunier (France), Areopage, 2006, p. 133
^ Alamy Limited. "France, Doubs, Frasne, Forest, Sanglier Reaping The Straps On A Stock Photo, Picture And Royalty Free Image. Pic. 70394886". Alamy. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
^ "Un fromage qui revient de loin". Swiss Television. Retrieved 15 January 2023.

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