Best Cheeses, Ranked by Popularity
The best cheeses in the world, all 996 of them, ranked by popularity. Start with the full list, then browse our hand-picked lists of the best cheeses by country, texture and use.
The Most Popular Cheeses (page 11)
Number 1 is the most popular. Click any row to learn more about the cheese.
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Adelost
Adelost is a Swedish blue cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk, with a light cream paste shot through with blue-gray veins. Its name means noble cheese, and it …
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Grand Vatel
Grand Vatel is a triple-cream cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind, eaten young and fresh. It tastes of fresh cream and butter, lightly salted, and picks up …
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Smoked Gouda
Smoked Gouda is a hard cheese originating from the Netherlands, known for its creamy texture and rich smoky flavor. It can be made from cow's, goat's, or sheep's …
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Chaumes
Chaumes is a cow's milk cheese from Saint-Antoine-de-Breuilh in the Périgord, south west France, built on traditional Trappist-style cheesemaking. It is known for its bright tangerine-orange washed rind, …
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Queso Blanco
Queso blanco is the white, fresh cheese of Latin America, made by curdling hot milk with an acid such as vinegar. No rennet or culture goes into it, …
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Milbenkäse
Milbenkäse is a German speciality cheese from the village of Würchwitz, made by ripening salted, caraway-flavoured quark in a wooden box of rye flour full of live cheese …
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Laguiole
Laguiole is a pressed, uncooked cheese from the Aubrac plateau in southern France, made only from raw Simmental or Aubrac cow's milk. Protected by AOC since 1961, it …
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Allgäuer Emmentaler
Allgäuer Emmentaler is a raw-milk Emmental from the Allgäu region of Germany, protected as a designation of origin since January 1997. It ripens for at least three months …
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Tiroler Bergkäse
Tiroler Bergkäse is an Austrian pressed cooked-curd cheese from Tyrol, made with partly skimmed raw cow's milk and held under a protected designation of origin since 1997. Wheels …
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Cotija
Cotija is an aged Mexican cheese from the town of Cotija in Michoacán, made by hand from cow's milk. It is white, firm and salty, and it is …
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Armenian String Cheese
Chechil, also called Armenian string cheese, is a brined pasta filata cheese from Armenia, sold as bundles of thick or thin fibrous threads that are often tied into …
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Xynomyzithra Kritis
Xynomyzithra is a Greek whey cheese made from ewes' and/or goats' milk, the sour version of Mizithra. Soft, snow-white and moist, it is best known served with honey …
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Iberico
Queso Iberico is a hard cheese from Spain made using a blend of cow's, goat's, and sheep's milk. It can be crafted from either pasteurized or unpasteurized milk, …
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Samso
Samsø is a Danish cow's milk cheese named for the island of Samsø. It is made in the style of Emmentaler, with a supple yellow interior, a few …
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Dry Jack
Dry Jack is a hard cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk, originating in Monterey, California. It has a pale yellow color and a natural rind. The texture is …
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Farm Chanco
Farm Chanco, also known as Queso Chanco, is a semi-hard cheese from the Maule region of Chile. Made from unpasteurized cow's milk, it has a fat content of …
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Saint Albray
Saint Albray is a French soft cheese from Aquitaine, made with pasteurized cow's milk and invented in 1976. It is shaped like the head of a flower, with …
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Formaella Arachovas Parnassou
Formaella Arachovas Parnassou is a semi-hard Greek cheese made mainly from sheep's milk in the Parnassus mountains around Arachova. A protected designation of origin since 1996, it is …
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Herve
Herve is a Belgian washed rind cheese made from raw cow's milk in the countryside near Liège, where it has been produced since the 15th century. It is …
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Requeson
Requeson, better known as requeijão, is a whey cheese made in Portugal and Brazil. It is close to ricotta and turns up in cheese spreads and in pastries …
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Livno
Livno is a cheese from the Livno area of Bosnia and Herzegovina, first made in the 19th century using the French method for Gruyère. It is made mostly …
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Valtellina Casera
Valtellina Casera is a cheese made from semi-skimmed cow's milk in the province of Sondrio, northern Italy. It goes back to the sixteenth century, carries PDO status, and …
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Baladi
Baladi is a soft white cheese from the Middle East, made from a mixture of goat, cow and sheep milk. It is fresh, unpasteurized, rindless and mild yet …
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Caciocavallo-Style
Caciocavallo-Style cheese is a traditional southern Italian cheese made from cow's milk. It is typically shaped like a teardrop and is aged by hanging in pairs over a …
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Cacioricotta
Cacioricotta is a southern Italian cheese from Basilicata, Apulia and Calabria, usually made with sheep or goat milk. Its name comes from the hybrid method behind it, which …
Best Cheeses by Country, Texture and Use
Popularity tells you what people search for. These lists tell you what to buy. Each one is ordered by hand and explains why every cheese made the cut.
