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	Beaufort Alpage 2004 Named after the small market town of its origin, Beaufort’s deep hazelnut flavour is incomparable to any other cheese. Grazing on unique, clean and pollution free Alpine pastures that are studded with thousands of aromatic flowers and alpine flora, Tarine and Abondance cows produce the rich milk that makes this exceptionally aromatic and savoury cheese. Hard, pressed, and cooked before slow, cold cellar maturation of at least 5 months at less than 12oC and 95% humidity. The concave sides prevent the cheese from collapsing and provided a track for the cord holding each wheel on a donkey's back for the trip down the valleys. Beaufort d’Alpage is made only in the summer from the milk of a single herd, using traditional production methods in mountain-top chalets. Its aromas and flavour are intensely fruity, reminiscent of butter, cream and hay.
	Price per 100g £2.65
	Type Very Hard Brine Dipped Country France Region Savoie Milk Cow's Milk Ideal food Omlette with sauteed potatoes Size 35-37cm diameter, 11-16cm high Weight 20-70kg Raw milk: Yes Code 210503

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The Savoie region does not offer its farmers the option of taking their milk back down the mountain on a daily basis to be transformed into cheese at the local fruitières. The mountains here are simply too steep by far. In fact, many areas are not inhabitable, being suited only to sustaining grazing cattle. In the Savoie farmers, move up into the mountains with great procession and festivity in the Spring, not to return until the late summer months. Cheese here is made exactly where the cows are milked, in small, stone mountain-top chalets. And it is in these chalets that the cheese will be matured for many months to come.

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