Chaource
AOP📍 Grand Est · Aube
🐄 cowsoft
Soft cheese with bloomy rind, creamy at the center.
The cheese
A bloomy-rind soft cheese from Champagne, AOP Chaource is a small cylinder of 250 to 450 g, very creamy, produced in Aube and Yonne. Made from cow's milk (raw or pasteurized), it ages at least two weeks and is recognizable by its downy white rind covering a very white, fatty, rich paste — almost runny at the centre when fully ripe. Aromas are elegant: fresh butter, cream, button mushroom, straw, with a salty edge. The exceptionally unctuous texture makes it a cheeseboard classic. Obvious local pairing: a blanc-de-blancs Champagne or a white Coteaux Champenois. Also delicious on toast with a drizzle of acacia honey, in a poultry sauce or baked into a savoury cake.