393 articles Updated October 2026
Cheese Profiles
Complete profiles for every cheese worth knowing. Origin, flavor, storage, pairings, and substitutes.
Cheese Profiles A to Z, page 10
What Is Figaro Cheese and Why Is It Wrapped in Fig Leaves?
Figaro is Andante Dairy's seasonal cow-and-goat milk cheese wrapped in wine-soaked fig leaves. See…
What Is Finn Cheese? Is It a Double Cream or a Triple Cream Cheese?
Finn is a soft cheese from Neal's Yard Creamery, made like French double cream…
What Is Fior di Latte Cheese? Choosing It for Pizza or Salad
Fior di latte is fresh cow's-milk stretched-curd cheese. Compare water-packed and pizza formats, storage…
What Is Five Counties Cheese, and Does the Fifth Cheese Change?
Five Counties is a block of five English cheeses stacked in layers. See which…
What Is Flagship Cheese? Beecher's Cheddar-Style with Gruyère Cultures
Flagship is Beecher's pasteurized cow's milk cheddar-style cheese, made with Gruyère and Emmental cultures…
What Is Fourme d'Ambert? Is It Milder Than Other Blue Cheeses?
Fourme d'Ambert is a tall AOP blue made from cow's milk in Auvergne. See…
What Is Fromage Blanc Cheese? Is It the Same as Quark or Cream Cheese?
Fromage blanc is an unripened French fresh cheese sold at 0%, 3.3% or 7.7%…
What Is Fromager d'Affinois? What Ultrafiltration Changes
Fromager d'Affinois is a French soft-ripened cheese range made with ultrafiltered milk. Compare products,…
What Is Garrotxa? The Grey-Rinded Catalan Goat's Cheese Revived in the 1980s
Garrotxa is a pasteurized Catalan goat's cheese with a grey mould rind, revived in…
What Is Goat Gouda Cheese and How Does It Compare?
Goat Gouda is a Gouda-style cheese made with goat milk and cannot be sold…
What Is Golden Cross Cheese? The English Log Made From a French Recipe
Golden Cross is a charcoal-dusted raw goat's-milk log from East Sussex, made to a…
What Is Gorgonzola Cheese? Choosing Dolce or Piccante
Compare Gorgonzola Dolce and Piccante, check DOP labels and ageing ranges, and choose a…
What Is Gouda Cheese? How It Changes from Young and Mild to Aged
Young Gouda is creamy and mild. Aged Gouda develops caramel crystals and deep butterscotch…
What Is Graceburn Cheese? Why It Cannot Be Called Feta or Persian Feta
Graceburn is a marinated cow's-milk cheese from Blackwoods in Kent, adapted from Australian Persian…
What Is Grana Padano? Which Aging Band Should You Buy?
Grana Padano is a PDO hard cheese of raw, partly skimmed cow's milk from…
What Is Graviera Cheese? How Do the Crete, Naxos and Agrafa Versions Differ?
Graviera is a hard Greek cheese, second only to feta in Greek dairy output.…
What Is Green Hill Cheese? How a Grazing Farm Became a Cheese Company
Green Hill is a pasteurized, camembert-style cow's-milk cheese from Sweet Grass Dairy in Georgia.…
What Is Greve Cheese? Sweden's Emmental-Style Cheese, Mild to 18 Months
Greve (Grevé) is a Swedish pasteurised cow's-milk cheese from the 1960s, sold mild to…
What Is Grey Owl Cheese, and Was It Really at the Royal Wedding?
Grey Owl cheese is an ash-coated Québec goat cheese named after conservationist Archibald Belaney.…
What Is Gruyere Cheese? Choosing Classic or Reserve and Cooking With It
Choose Gruyere for fondue, gratins or a cheese board. Compare Swiss AOP Classic and…
What Is Hafod Cheese? A Welsh Cheddar Guided by a 1917 Manual
Hafod is a Welsh cheddar from one organic Ayrshire herd near Lampeter, usually made…
What Is Harbison Cheese? Taste, Ripeness, Serving, and Storage
Harbison is Jasper Hill's spruce-wrapped soft cheese. Learn what it tastes like, how to…
What Is Harzer Cheese and Why Is It So High in Protein?
Harzer is a German sour-milk cheese with under 1% fat and 30 g protein…
What Is Havarti Cheese? Mild Flavor, Melting and the Danish PGI
Havarti is mild, supple and easy to melt, but Danish PGI Havarti follows a…
