Cheese Database

Bonne Bouche vs Crottin de Chavignol

Bonne Bouche

Facts

Milk
Goat
Texture
Soft
Type
Bloomy rind
Rind
Bloomy rind
Country
United States
Place
Vermont

Bonne Bouche is a Vermont brand of American goat's milk cheese. The name is French for a good mouthful, and the cheese is sold as a small aged round. Makers use pasteurized goat's milk and dust the curd with ash. A wrinkled rind grows over that ash as the cheese ripens in its wrap. The paste turns creamy, and the goat flavor gets rounder and stronger with time.

Crottin de Chavignol

Facts

Milk
Goat
Texture
Soft
Rind
Natural rind
Country
France
Place
Centre-Val de Loire

Crottin de Chavignol is a small goat's milk cheese from Centre-Val de Loire in France. Each piece is a short round with a thin natural rind. Young cheese is pale, soft, and mild, with a creamy center. Cheese kept longer turns drier, darker, and stronger in flavor. The name refers to that small rounded shape, which becomes more obvious as the outside dries and darkens.