Language/French/Vocabulary/French-Cheeses-List

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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:

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Cheese Name	Family	Type
A
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
Brocciu AOP	Goat	Fresh whey cheese from goats and sheep, produced in Corsica.
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
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
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
Merzer	Cow	reduced to 12% fat, Production in Brittany
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
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
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
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
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
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

Sources

https://www.france-hotel-guide.com/en/blog/french-cheeses/

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