Cheese

Cheeses grouped by how the curd is made and ripened, from fresh acid curds to cave-aged wheels.

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Ferment	Region	Main step	Temperature	Salt	pH
Aaruul	Mongolia	4–5 days	44–55 °C		4.7–5
Abaza peyniri (Sakarya Abhaz peyniri)	Turkey, Sakarya province	2 months	3–6 °C
Abondance PDO	France, Haute-Savoie	at least 3.3 months	10–13 °C
Acharuli chlechili (Adjarian chlechili)	Georgia, Autonomous Republic of Adjara	30 days – 2 months		4–6 %
Afuega'l Pitu PDO	Spain, central-western Asturias	5 days – 2 months			4.1–5
Akanthou cheese (Akanthiotiko tyri)	Cyprus, Akanthou village	3–4 years
Akkawi	Levant	14 days – 6 months	4 °C	10 %
Algunder Ziegenkäse (Formaggio di capra di Lagundo)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, province of Bolzano	42 days – 3 months	15 °C
Allgäuer Bergkäse PDO	Germany, the Allgäu	at least 4 months
Allgäuer Emmentaler PDO	Germany, the Allgäu	at least 3 months
Allgäuer Sennalpkäse PDO	Germany, Bavaria, the alpine mountain area of the Allgäu districts Ostallgäu, Oberallgäu and Lindau, at 800 m or higher	at least 3 months
Altenburger Ziegenkäse PDO	Germany, the border area of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt	at least 14 days
Anari	Cyprus	1 h	70–80 °C
Anevato	Greece, West Macedonia	at least 2 months
Antep Peyniri	Turkey, Gaziantep province	2–3 months	3–5 °C	2–4 %
Anthotyros	Greece	35–40 days	4 °C		6.8
Ardrahan	Ireland, County Cork	28 days		4.1 %	6.8
Arzúa-Ulloa PDO	Spain, central Galicia	at least 6 days	up to 15 °C		5–5.5
Aschbacher Magerkäse (Formaggio Aschbach magro)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, province of Bolzano	at least 30 days
Bagòss	Italy, Lombardy, province of Brescia, the commune of Bagolino	at least 6 months	4–19 °C
Banon PDO	France, Haute-Provence around the town of Banon	5–10 days	at least 8 °C
Bastardo del Grappa	Italy, Veneto, Monte Grappa massif	at least 25 days
Batzos PDO	Greece, Thessaly and Western and Central Macedonia	at least 3 months		10–12 %
Beaufort PDO	Savoie, France	at least 5 months	6–12 °C
Beli sir (Serbian and Bosnian white brined cheese)	Western Balkans, especially the mountain villages of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina	30 days – 2 months	14–16 °C	12 %
Berner Alpkäse / Berner Hobelkäse AOP	Switzerland, Bernese Oberland summer pastures	at least 18 months	up to 20 °C
Beyaz peynir	Turkey	21 days – 3.3 months	4–7 °C	16 %	6.4
Bitto PDO and Storico Ribelle	Italy, Lombardy, the province of Sondrio	12 months – 10 years
Bleu d'Auvergne PDO	France, Massif Central	at least 28 days	0–6 °C		4.9–5.1 → 6.11
Bleu de Gex Haut-Jura / Bleu de Septmoncel PDO	France, the high Jura mountains	at least 21 days	6–14 °C	at least 0.8 %
Bleu des Causses PDO	France, Causses limestone plateaus	2.3–6.2 months	-4–4 °C
Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage PDO	France, the Vercors massif west of Grenoble	at least 21 days	9–14 °C
Bloderkäse and Sauerkäse AOP	Switzerland, twelve communes of St. Gallen	at least 2 months	10–18 °C		4.3–4.7
Bocconcini alla panna di bufala	Italy, Campania	4–4.5 h			4.8–4.9
Boerenkaas	Netherlands	at least 13 days	at least 12 °C	18–22 %	5.2–5.4
Bonchester Cheese PDO	Scotland and England, the Border lands within 90 km of Peel Fell in the Cheviot Hills	6–12 days	11 °C
Bouhezza	Algeria, the Chaouia area of the east	30 days – 6 months			4.7 → 3.99
Bovški sir PDO	Slovenia, the Bovec area in the upper Soča valley, Julian Alps	at least 45 days
Bra PDO (Tenero and Duro)	Italy, Piedmont, the whole province of Cuneo plus Villafranca Piemonte	at least 6 months	up to 18 °C
Brânză de Năsal	Romania, Cluj county	25–30 days	14–15 °C	1 %	5.5 → 5.65
Bratkäse	Switzerland, Unterwalden	42 days – 2.3 months	13–14 °C
Bregenzerwälder Alpkäse and Bergkäse	Austria, Vorarlberg	6 months – 2 years	12–15 °C	20 %
Brick cheese	Wisconsin, USA	at least 2 months	10 °C
Brie de Meaux PDO	France, the eastern Paris basin	at least 28 days	4–14 °C		up to 4.9
Brie de Melun PDO	France, the Brie country east of Paris	56 days – 2.3 months			up to 6.5 → 4.8
Brillat-Savarin PGI	Burgundy and Île-de-France	at least 5 days	5–14 °C		up to 4.9
Brînză de Popeasca	Moldova, Ștefan Vodă and Căușeni districts	at least 30 days		5–7 %
Brocciu PDO	France, Corsica	at least 21 days		0.5–1 %	at least 6.2
Brousse du Rove PDO	France, Provence: the dry limestone hills of the Bouches-du-Rhône, the far south of the Vaucluse and the west of the Var	up to 8 days
Brunost (brown cheese) / mysost / geitost	Norway	15 min	100 °C
Bryndza (Slovak / Podhale)	Carpathian Mountains	10–13 days	12–22 °C	4–6 %	5.1–5.3
Bryndza Podhalańska PDO	Poland, Podhale	14 days
Brynza (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova)	Russia, Ukraine and Moldova	30 days – 2.5 months	-4–6 °C	2–4 %
Bündner Bergkäse	Switzerland, Graubünden	at least 3 months	up to 18 °C
Bundz	Poland, Podhale	14 days			6.4
Burrata di Andria PGI	Italy, Puglia				6.3
Burrata di bufala	Italy, Lazio	24 h	6–8 °C
Burrell' (Scamorza con burro all'interno)	Italy, Lazio	7 days	6–8 °C
Burrino	Italy, Molise	at least 2 months
Büscion	Switzerland, Ticino	up to 15 days			4.3–4.5
Butterkäse	Germany and Austria	3–4 days		3.7 %	5.7–5.9
Buxton Blue PDO	England, Derbyshire	28 days – 2.3 months	8–14 °C	0.3 %
Cabécou	France, Massif Central	at least 6 days	at least 10 °C	0.6–0.8 %
Cabrales PDO	Asturias, Spain	at least 2 months	6–10 °C
Cacio di Genazzano	Italy, Lazio	3–6 months	12–14 °C	3.5 %
Cacio in forma di limone	Italy, Marche	4–10 days
Cacio magno (semplice e alle erbe)	Italy, Lazio	20–30 days	13 °C
Caciocavallo affumicato	Italy, Campania	at least 2 months
Caciocavallo di bufala (semplice e affumicato)	Italy, Lazio	20 days – 3 months	6–8 °C
Caciocavallo di Supino	Italy, Lazio	at least 15 days
Caciocavallo Podolico	Italy, Basilicata	6 months – 5 years
Caciocavallo Silano PDO	Italy, southern Apennines	at least 30 days
Caciocavallo vaccino (semplice e affumicato)	Italy, Lazio	15 days – 8 years	4–12 °C		5–5.2
Cacioricotta di bufala	Italy, Lazio	2–12 months	4 °C
Caciotta	Italy	30 days	9 °C	37 %	5.3
Caciotta cepranese	Italy, Lazio	at least 15 days	12 °C
Caciotta dei Monti della Laga	Italy, Lazio	30 days
Caciotta della Sabina (semplice e alle erbe)	Italy, Lazio	20–30 days	12–13 °C
Caciotta di bufala pontina	Italy, Lazio	30 days	8–12 °C
Caciotta di mucca	Italy, Lazio	15 days – 6 months	8 °C
Caciotta genuina romana	Italy, Lazio	at least 15 days	4–14 °C
Caciotta mista ai bronzi	Italy, Lazio	45 days
Caciotta mista della Tuscia	Italy, Lazio	20 days – 3 months	8–15 °C
Caciotta mista ovi-vaccina del Lazio	Italy, Lazio	24 h – 30 days	7–11 °C
Caciottina di bufala di Amaseno (semplice o aromatizzata)	Italy, Lazio	2 months	4–10 °C		5.1–5.2
Caerphilly	Wales	10 days – 6 months	10–12 °C	1 %
Camel-milk soft cheese	Mauritania	15–45 days	12–14 °C	1.5–1.8 %	6.2–6.8
Camembert de Normandie PDO	France, Normandy	at least 22 days	10–18 °C
Cancoillotte	Franche-Comté and neighbouring parts of eastern France	at least 12 h	at least 20 °C		up to 5.4
Canestrato di Moliterno PGI	Italy, Basilicata	at least 2 months
Canestrato Pugliese PDO	Italy, Puglia	2–10 months
Cantal PDO	Auvergne, France	at least 30 days	6–12 °C		5–5.4
Caprino conciato del Montemaggiore	Italy, Campania	2–3 months
Caprino nicastrese	Italy, Calabria	at least 20 days		2.1–2.3 %
Caprino presamico (di latte vaccino) di Supino	Italy, Lazio	12–24 h
Carré de l'Est	France, Lorraine and Champagne	29 days			4.8 → 6.85
Casatella Trevigiana PDO	Italy, Veneto	4–8 days	2–8 °C	0.8–1.2 %
Cașcaval de Săveni PGI	Romania, northern half of Botoșani County	at least 2 months	2–8 °C	1.5–3 %
Casciotta d'Urbino PDO	Italy, Marche and Emilia-Romagna	15–30 days	8–14 °C
Casolèt	Italy, Trentino	20–30 days	4–6 °C
Castelmagno PDO	Italy, Piedmont	at least 2 months	5–15 °C
Casuforte di Statigliano	Italy, Campania	6 months – 2 years
Cervelle de canut	France, Lyon	4–6.5 h	20–30 °C		5.9–6.7 → 4.2
Chaource PDO	Champagne humide, France	at least 14 days	8–14 °C		up to 6.6 → 4.75
Charolais PDO	France, around Charolles	at least 16 days	8–15 °C	1.5–2.5 %	4.2–4.5
Cheese curds	Wisconsin and the US Midwest	3–7 days	4 °C
Chevrotin PDO	France, Haute-Savoie and Savoie	at least 21 days	8–18 °C
Chhena	Eastern India	7–10 min	70–90 °C
Chogi	Georgia, Tusheti	30 days – 2 months		2–4 %
Chura kampo / chura loenpa	Tibetan Plateau	5–7 days
Ciambella di Morolo	Italy, Lazio	20–30 days	7–8 °C
Çökelek	Turkey	45 days	4 °C	1 %	3.9–4.2
Colby	United States	at least 2 months	at least 2 °C		5.1 → 5.4
Comté PDO	France, Jura massif	at least 3.9 months	up to 19 °C
Cotija (queso Cotija de montaña)	Sierra de Jalmich	at least 3 months
Crottin de Chavignol PDO	Berry, France	at least 10 days	at least 10 °C
Cuartirolo argentino	Argentina	at least 20 days	12 °C		5.2
Danbo PGI	Denmark	14–28 days	7–21 °C
Dangke	Indonesia, South Sulawesi	2 days			6.2–6.8
Datshi	Bhutan	7 days			5.2
Diyarbakır Örgü Peyniri	Turkey, Diyarbakır province and its districts	3 months	4–6 °C	3 %	5
Domiati	Egypt	2–3 months		8 %
Dovedale Cheese PDO	England, the Peak District within fifty miles of Dovedale	21–28 days	8–14 °C	2–4 %	5–6
Dunlop	Scotland, Ayrshire	6–18 months			5.2–5.4
Edam Holland PGI	Netherlands	at least 28 days	at least 12 °C
Emmentaler AOP	Switzerland	at least 4 months	11–14 °C
Époisses PDO	France, Burgundy	at least 28 days			up to 4.5
Faisselle	France	up to 31 days	0–6 °C		5.9–6.7 → 4.2
Feta PDO	Greece	at least 2 months	2–4 °C	7 %	4.8–5.1
Fior di latte / Mozzarella STG	Italy	up to 3 days	42–50 °C		5.1–5.6
Fior di ricotta di Ponte Persica	Italy, Campania	up to 5 days	4–6 °C
Fiordilatte dell'Agro Pontino	Italy, Lazio	3–5 h		up to 3 %
Fontina PDO	Italy, the whole Aosta Valley	at least 2.6 months	4–12 °C		5.4
Formaggella ticinese	Switzerland, Ticino and Italian-speaking Graubünden	at least 21 days	12–14 °C
Formaggi di pecora nera di Arbus	Italy, Sardegna	up to 2 months
Formaggio Comelico	Italy, Veneto, province of Belluno	at least 30 days	7–15 °C
Formaggio di capra a pasta molle (Valle d'Aosta)	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	20–25 days	12–15 °C
Formaggio di fossa (pit-ripened)	Italy, Romagna and Marche	2.6–3.3 months	10–15 °C		5.1
Formaggio di pecora o capra a pasta pressata (Valle d'Aosta)	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	at least 3 months
Formaggio e caciotta di pecora sott'olio	Italy, Lazio	3–12 months
Formaggio inbriago	Italy, Veneto	2 months – 2 years
Formaggio misto (Valle d'Aosta)	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	2–3 months	12–15 °C
Formai del cìt	Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia	up to 10 days
Fourme d'Ambert PDO	France, Auvergne	at least 28 days	0–6 °C
Fourme de Montbrison PDO	France, monts du Forez	at least 32 days	6–12 °C		6.5–6.6
Fromages du Jura / Jurabergkäse (Chaux-d'Abel, Grand Chaux-d'Abel, Moron, Fornet)	Switzerland, the Bernese Jura and canton of Jura	at least 2.5 months	13–14 °C
Furmaìn (Formaggetta fresca)	Italy, Emilia-Romagna	3 days – 12 months	up to 16 °C
Fynbo	Denmark, the island of Funen	at least 42 days	10–20 °C
Gamalost	Vik, Sogn, Norway	14–21 days	10–13 °C
Gamonéu PDO	Spain, eastern Asturias	at least 2 months	up to 12 °C

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