Cheese Database

Ädelost vs Gorgonzola

Ädelost

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-soft
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
Sweden

Ädelost is a blue cheese from Sweden, made with pasteurized cow's milk. The name means noble cheese, and Swedes also spell it Adelost. It was developed as a Swedish answer to imported blue cheeses, with a creamy paste and blue-grey veins. A thin rind carries a light dusting of mold. The flavor is salty, sharp, and tangy, and people use it as a table cheese or crumbled on a salad.

Gorgonzola, field guide plate
Gorgonzola, photographed

Gorgonzola

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-soft
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
Italy
Place
Lombardy
Status
PDO

Gorgonzola is a blue cow's-milk cheese from northern Italy. The town of Gorgonzola, east of Milan, gave it a name. The protected zone is wider, across Lombardy and Piedmont.