Gruyère Vieux AOP

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Milk: Unpasteurised Cow

Region: Fribourg 

Rennet: Animal

Age: 18 Months

Selected from a single cheesemaker who makes 6 cheeses per day.


Our Gruyère Vieux is aged for 18 months to maintain the complexity of the milk flavours, while also achieving subtle fruitiness. Its flavour will reflect the milk of the season, sweet and herby in Spring and Summer to more savoury and salty in the Autumn and Winter. There is a scattering of crunchy crystals through the cheese, a sign of a classic mature Gruyère. 

We select cheese from a single producer who produces a maximum of 6 cheeses per day. The milk for the cheese comes from small herds of cows farmed in the immediate area of the village where it is made.

This Gruyère is matured not far from where it is produced, and salt from the Alpine Bex salt mines is used in the ripening process.

The classic. Selected from a single cheesemaker. Rounded flavour with fabulous depth and light crystallisation.

Location of cheese of the week: Viamala

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After crossing the Surenen pass during my attempt at the Swiss Alpine Pass Route, I came upon a sign saying "Alp Käse". Not being the type of person who can walk past cheese, (especially after walking 8 hours that day), I stopped to make a purchase and have a look around the dairy. The Raclette that we ate later that night when we returned to Zürich took me by surprise. Here was a cheese that was delicate, with the flavours of Alpine grasses bursting through and a milky sweetness that spoke of the environment of where it came from.