Cheese Database

Beaufort vs Comté

Beaufort

Milk
Cow
Texture
Hard
Type
Pressed
Rind
Natural rind
Country
France
Place
Savoie
Status
PDO

Beaufort is a large pressed cow's-milk cheese from the high country of Savoie, and a protected name. The wheel has a concave rim, so you can recognize the shape across a counter.

Comté

Milk
Cow
Texture
Hard
Type
Pressed
Rind
Natural rind
Country
France
Place
Jura
Status
PDO

Comté is a large pressed cow's-milk cheese from the French Jura, and a protected cheese. Fruitières, the cooperative dairies of the region, pool the milk of many farms. Montbéliarde cows and French Simmentals give the milk.