Comté 12 Months A.O.P.

This popular cheese from the Jura Massif region of France is made from 100% raw milk from Montbéliarde or Simmental breeds. For more than 1,000 years, farmers have been creating this unique and tasty cheese. Thanks to the strict requirement standard of AOP (appellation d’origine protégée), the standard is kept high today; from raising the cow to making the cheese. The raw milk that goes into the making of Comté come from free-grazing cows, of at least 1 hectare (2.5 acres) per cow. They graze in the pastures from spring to autumn, and local silage (hay) in the winter. No fermented feed or GMOs is allowed. The farmers are also required to touch each cow at least two times each day. 🐮❤️Giving the cows extra love and care. Each morning the milk from these lovely cows arrives and is pumped into large copper-lined vats to undergo the making process. This 12-month Comté, aged in underground cellars, a complex flavored cheese; sweet caramelized onion, rich nuttiness, meaty and even fruity. Ingredients: Raw Montbéliarde or Simmental cow's milk, rennet, salt (on rind) ~200 gram per piece