Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

Bleu du Vercors-Sassenage

What it is

On 28 June 1338 Baron Albert de Sassenage signed a charter letting the people of Villard-de-Lans sell their cheese to whoever they liked; until then it had been owed to him as a due. The cheese has carried his name for nearly seven hundred years; the barons have not lasted as well.

In the kitchen

It is built from the evening milk, part-skimmed, blended with the whole morning milk, which is why the blue stays so light. Use it where a strong one would swallow the dish — a gratin, a soufflé, a leek tart.

Goes with

Potato Cream Walnut Butter Leek Egg Honey Pear

Same species

Bleu d’Auvergne Bleu de Gex Haut-Jura Bleu de Termignon Bleu des Causses

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