Franche-Comté

Our archive of Cheese Profiles for artisanal cheeses from Franche-Comté, France.

You can also find some of our other French cheese archives here: Auvergne, Bourgogne, Ile-de-France, Poitou-Charentes and Provence.

Morbier

A line of ash

Worthy of the Royal Crown

Le Duc Vacherin, selected by Will Studd, is a soft surface-ripened cheese made in the France-Comté region of Eastern France.

In my books, the young Comté Bleu is grossly underrated. Read on to learn more about this cheese.

Smells like the mountains