Cheese Database

Comté vs Gruyère

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.

Gruyère

Milk
Cow
Texture
Hard
Type
Pressed
Rind
Natural rind
Country
Switzerland
Place
Fribourg
Status
AOP

Gruyère is a hard cow's-milk cheese from western Switzerland, centered on the canton of Fribourg and a defined neighboring zone. A true Swiss Gruyère has few holes, or none.