The fromageries and cheese counters in Champagne worth a stop.
A guide to cheese shops in Champagne.
Julien Pouillot is an affineur and cheesemonger with a stall in the Troyes market hall, selling about 400 references including Chaource fermier, which the shop ripens in its own ripening room. It also sells at the Écrevolles market in Pont-Sainte-Marie and at Fraich' in Barberey-Saint-Sulpice.
Cheese and wine shop at 28 rue de Mars in Reims, near the Boulingrin market hall. Its own site counts over 300 cheeses and takes orders for platters; a 2014 local guide noted new cheeses each week.
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In the Aube and Yonne departments, in the Champagne Humide, a clay region on the border of the two, according to the Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité.
At least 14 days from renneting, with at least 8 days at 8 to 14 °C, per the appellation rules summarised on French Wikipedia. INAO describes the cheese at 14 days as mushroom, hazelnut and cream.
The large format weighs 450 to 700 g, made in moulds 110 to 115 mm across, and the small format 250 to 380 g in moulds 85 to 90 mm across, per French Wikipedia.
The consortium says the fontaine forms naturally because the cheese is never turned during making. Some producers ripen it with marc, and the alcohol poured into the dip spreads through the cheese.
Montbéliarde, Brune or Simmental cows, with Prim'Holstein allowed only below half the herd. Grazing must last at least six months a year, per the consortium.
The usual format weighs 280 to 300 g and measures 10 cm across and 5 to 6 cm high, per French Wikipedia.
INAO records the French appellation in 1991. Its Langres page also lists the European Commission regulations of 1996 and 1997 on the register of protected designations; the later dates sometimes quoted, 2009 (French Wikipedia) and 2012 (the consortium), are those of the revised rules and their European approval, not the first protection.
Part of its protected area lies in the Champagne departments of Marne, Aube and Haute-Marne, per INAO and the brie syndicate, but its home is Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France.