Bleu de Gex vs Bleu des Causses
Bleu de Gex
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Franche-Comté
Bleu de Gex is a blue cow's milk cheese from Franche-Comté in eastern France. It is also called Bleu de Septmoncel or Bleu du Haut-Jura. The wheels are made from raw milk, and the word Gex is molded into one face. The paste is ivory, with pale blue-green veins rather than dark heavy marbling. A thin, dry rind runs from off-white to a light yellow.
Bleu des Causses
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Semi-soft
- Type
- Blue
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Midi-Pyrénées
Bleu des Causses is a blue cheese from Midi-Pyrénées in France, made with whole cow's milk. The paste is ivory to pale yellow, moist, and threaded with blue green veins. A natural rind covers a flat cylinder that shops cut into wedges. The flavor is savory and clearly blue, and many people find it gentler than a very sharp sheep's milk blue. It is ripened in the natural caves of the limestone causses, and those caves are part of its identity.