🇫🇷PDOCheese & Dairy
Mont d'Or
Also known as: Vacherin du Haut-Doubs, Vacherin (commercial term often used)
The full description of this designation is still being verified against the EU register.
Tasting notes
Franche-Comté cow's milk soft washed-rind cheese, distinctively cradled in spruce-bark "boîte d'épicéa", aged minimum 21 days. Salmon-orange rind, almost-liquid ivory paste at peak, intensely creamy texture, fragrant with characteristic spruce-resin aroma and savory-fungal-buttery flavor — produced ONLY September 15 to May 15 (seasonal AOP rule).
HoReCa use
**Boîte chaude** — entire cheese baked in its spruce box with garlic and white wine, eaten with potatoes and charcuterie — the iconic Mont d'Or service; on plateau de fromages; spread on bread.
Packaging
- boîte-épicéa-450g
- boîte-épicéa-800g
- boîte-épicéa-2kg
- boîte-épicéa-3kg
Seasonality