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France's wheel of patience, where time turns grass and milk into a year-old roar of flavor.
means Comté is a firm, nutty French cow's-milk cheese made in the Franche-Comté region and aged for months to develop its complex flavor.
from The cheese takes its name from the historic region of Franche-Comté in eastern France, near the Jura mountains. "Comté" itself comes from the Latin "comitatus," meaning a county or the territory governed by a count — "comte" being the French word for count, from Latin "comes," literally a "companion" (one who travels with, and serves, the king). So the cheese carries in its name the memory of feudal land and its lord, made in mountain dairies called "fruitières" where farmers once pooled their milk to craft wheels too big for any single household.
- aging time
- Matures four months to over three years
- giant wheel
- Each one weighs around 40 kilograms
- raw milk
- Made only from Montbeliarde and Simmental cows
- crystal crunch
- Aged versions form crunchy tyrosine flavor crystals
- top seller
- France's most-produced AOC cheese by far
comte de paris — french royal title held by various claimants to the french throne, including louis-philippe d'orléans (1838-1894)
auguste comte — french philosopher (1798-1857) who founded positivism and coined the term 'sociology'