Bleu de Gex Haut-Jura

Bleu de Gex Haut-Jura

What it is

Savoyard monks are said to have carried the recipe to the abbey of Saint-Claude in the fourteenth century, and the farms of the Haut-Jura have made it since. Each wheel still leaves the mould with the three letters of Gex standing in relief on one face — the cheese signs itself.

In the kitchen

Its blue is faint and its bitterness real, so use it where a Roquefort would flatten everything: a thin slice melted off the heat into a Jura sauce of cream and vin jaune.

Goes with

Vin jaune Cream Chicken Potato Walnut Morel Comté Onion

Same species

Bleu d’Auvergne Bleu de Termignon Bleu des Causses Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

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