Olivet cendré vs Valençay
Olivet cendré
Facts
- Milk
- Cow
- Texture
- Soft
- Rind
- Natural rind
- Country
- France
Olivet cendré is a soft cow's milk cheese from France. The word cendré means that ash covers the cheese, and the rind turns grey from that coat. The paste is ivory, supple, and a little moist, with a delicate earthy taste. Makers have long ripened the rounds in ash, once from burned vine cuttings and now often from vegetable charcoal. It is a table cheese, sold in small cylinders for cutting and spreading.
Valençay
Facts
- Milk
- Goat
- Texture
- Soft
- Type
- Bloomy rind
- Rind
- Bloomy rind
- Country
- France
- Place
- Centre-Val de Loire
Valençay is a soft goat's milk cheese from Centre-Val de Loire, in France. Each cheese is a small truncated pyramid, flat across the top, with a coat of vegetable ash. A light bloomy surface develops over that gray coat as the cheese rests. The paste is white and moist, creamy near the rind and a little chalky at the center when young. The taste is bright, tangy, and lightly salty, with a clean goat note.