Roquefort is a sheep’s milk blue-mold cheese that has been made for more than 2000 years.
Roquefort is certainly the most famous French sheep's milk
blue-mold cheese, whose creamy texture testifies to its quality -
the more fragile, the better! This cheese, bearing the
controlled-origin label (AOC), is noted for its sharp, but
extraordinary full and pleasantly spicy flavor that combines a
sweet note of caramelized sugar and a sheep's milk blue-mold cheese
note. It has no rind, it is crumbly, melts in the mouth and
refreshes.
The oldest regulations for its production date back as far as
1411 and only those cheeses aged in the natural Combalou caves near
the small town of Roquefort sur Soulzon and made from the milk of
lacaune, a local breed of sheep, may bear the name Roquefort.
Président Roquefort is served with walnuts, figs, pears, grapes,
but also with various dishes and roasted meat. It pairs well with
different types of bread, buns and fragrant focaccias: let it sit
out at room temperature and spread over a slice of your favorite
bread. It goes well with aromatic dessert wines, but also with more
heavy matured, structured red and late harvest wines.
Président Roquefort is available in a 100 g pack.