This is one delicious goat's cheese! We had the pleasure of having many wonderful cheeses while in France, but this was one of our very favorites. Crottin de Chavignol is a goat's milk cheese, made in the tiny town of Chavignol tucked in the hills of the Loire valley, with its very own AOC designation. It has a very distinct goaty aroma and taste, which is intensified with aging. When it's fresh, it has an ivory-white rind and a creamy cheese. As it gets older, the rind turns bluish and the cheese more crumbly and intense, and with even more time turns brown and quite hard and super intense. The fresh young cheese we liked most, but believe we could easily develop a palate for the older and stinkier stuff.
The town of Chavignol is a hillside away from the town of Sancerre, home of steely Sauvignon Blanc, and these two together are a match made in heaven.
If you come across any Crottin de Chavignol, be sure to try it (and let us know where you found it!)!
Cheers, and bon appetit!
I have to get me some of that cheese! This blog is awesome Sarah and Rob. I am going to have to try some of your recommendations; you make them all sound so delicious!
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