ACS CCP® Pat Polowsky presents Alpine-style cheeses Saturdays at the Facebook Cheese Study Group. This week he discusses French Comte AOC:
This week on Alpine Saturday: Comté AOC. Comté is the most popular (by production) French AOC cheese. Comté is made of milk from Montbéliarde or French Simmental cows (or cross breeds of the two) around the Jura region. It’s required to have a fat-in-the-dry-matter content between 45% and 54%, maximum moisture of 38%, and a minimal salt content of 0.6%
Quick facts
Milk: raw cow
Format: Wheel (55-75 cm diameter (20-30″), between 32-45kg (70-100lbs))
Age: 120 days minimum
The flavor of Comté can range from sweet, fruity, and nutty to spicy, brothy, and caramelized
Fun fact: Comté has its own quarterly newsletter: (in France) http://www.comte.com/uploads/tx_dklikcigcbdd/NDC95.pdf, (in USA) http://d1x7o7a0lupeaw.cloudfront.net/…/2017_1WinterComteNew…
AOC/PDO document: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/…
Comté being made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfbkugkQtI
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