Crottin de Chavignol vs Mâconnais
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.
Mâconnais
Facts
- Milk
- Goat
- Texture
- Soft
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Burgundy
Mâconnais is a small goat's milk cheese from Burgundy in France. It is shaped as a little truncated cone, with a thin natural rind and a white, dense paste. The cheese is lactic and goaty, mild when young and stronger as the rind dries and takes on bluish spots. Goats in this part of Burgundy were long kept beside vines, and the cheese belongs to that farm pattern. It is a short-aged goat cheese, not a large pressed wheel.