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| Bleu de Gex(-Haut-Jura)
Language: French
Description: A large, round, semihard, blue-veined wheel of cow’s milk cheese from Franche-Comté. It is best in summer when the herbs on which the cattle graze flavour their milk. It is only made in a handful of small dairies in the mountains of the Gex region. (AOC-1977).
| A Bleu de Gex or Septmoncel, still wrapped up, and beautifully kept at Sheridans Cheesemongers in Galway |
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Pronounced: bluh duh jhehks oh jhoo-rah
Ethnicity: French
Most frequent country: France
Most frequent region: Franche-Comté
Also known as: Bleu du Haut-Jura, Bleu de Septmoncel, Gex, Septmoncel
See places: French food and cuisine, Franche-Comte
See: Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée
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