Bleu de Termignon ✦ ◆

Bleu de Termignon

What it is

Four or five alpage families still make it, between June and September, to something like a hundred wheels a summer. Nothing is inoculated: the moulds arrive on their own, carried in on the pasture plants of the Vanoise, so the veining is patchy and no two wheels are alike.

In the kitchen

Look at the cut before you buy: a wheel that has barely blued is not a failure, it is that summer. Serve it as it comes, with bread — cooking flattens the herbal note you paid for.

Goes with

Potato Butter Rye berries Honey Walnut Pear Cream Génépi

Same species

Bleu d’Auvergne Bleu de Gex Haut-Jura Bleu des Causses Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

In season alongside

Bay bolete Cavolo nero Salt marsh lamb Amethyst deceiver Arbutus berry Hind

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