Cheese Database

Emmental vs Vorarlberger Bergkäse

Emmental, field guide plate
Emmental, photographed

Emmental

Facts

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

Emmental is the Swiss cow's-milk cheese with large holes, from the Emmental valley in the canton of Bern. The holes are eyes, made by gas during aging. The Swiss cheese is protected.

Vorarlberger Bergkäse

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-hard
Type
Pressed
Rind
Natural rind
Country
Austria
Place
Vorarlberg

Vorarlberger Bergkäse is a firm mountain cheese from Vorarlberg in Austria. It is made from raw cow's milk, and the wheels are large, with a natural brown rind. The paste is pale to light yellow, supple when younger, and harder or more crumbly after a long age. A few small eyes are normal. The taste runs from nutty and mild to spicy and herbal, and cooks use it on a board, for melting, and for grating.