Cheese Database

Picón Bejes-Tresviso vs Roquefort

Picón Bejes-Tresviso

Facts

Milk
Mixed milk
Texture
Semi-soft
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
Spain
Place
P.D.O.

Picón Bejes-Tresviso is a blue cheese from northern Spain. Makers use cow's milk, sheep's milk, and goat's milk, often blended in one vat, which is why people call it a three-milk cheese. The wheels are small cylinders with a thin damp rind and a white paste crossed by blue-green veins. The name joins Picón with Bejes and Tresviso, the mountain places linked to the style. Flavor is strong, salty, and lightly spicy, with a clear cave character.

Roquefort, field guide plate
Roquefort, photographed

Roquefort

Facts

Milk
Sheep
Texture
Semi-soft
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
France
Place
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
Status
PDO

Roquefort is a blue sheep's-milk cheese ripened in the caves at Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, in southern France. The protected cheese uses milk from a defined area, and the ripening happens in those caves.