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 26)
Number 1 is the most popular. Click any row to learn more about the cheese.
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Asiago d’Allevo DOP
Asiago d’Allevo DOP is a traditional Italian cheese from the Veneto region, made from unpasteurized cow's milk. It has a hard texture and a pale yellow color. The …
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Figue
Figue is a soft, artisan cheese made from unpasteurized goat's milk in the Provence region of France. It has a creamy white color and a natural rind. Known …
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Queijo do serro
Queijo do Serro is a traditional cheese from the Serro region in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Made from unpasteurized cow's milk, it has an artisan texture that reflects its …
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Silter
Silter is a hard Italian cheese from the mountains of Lombardy, around the province of Brescia, made with unpasteurized cow's milk. It is named after the Val Camonica …
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630
Exmoor Blue Cheese
Exmoor Blue Cheese is a full-fat soft blue-veined cheese made from unpasteurized Jersey cow’s milk in Devon and Somerset, England. It has a rich yellow color and a …
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Bica de Queijo
Bica de Queijo is a semi-soft, artisan cheese from Póvoa de Lanhoso in Portugal. It is crafted using a blend of cow's, goat's, and sheep's unpasteurized milk, giving …
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Tomme de Savoie
Tomme de Savoie is a mild, semi-firm cow's milk cheese from Savoy in the French Alps. It is made from the skimmed milk left over from butter making, …
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Blu di Bufala
Blu di Bufala is a blue-veined cheese from the Lombardy region in Italy, made from pasteurized water buffalo's milk. Its semi-firm texture is crafted by artisans, resulting in …
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634
Vacherin Fribourgeois
Vacherin Fribourgeois is a Swiss semi-hard cheese from the canton of Fribourg, made with thermised milk and protected by Swiss AOP. It tastes slightly acidic and resiny, and …
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635
Epoisses de Bourgogne
Époisses de Bourgogne is a soft, washed rind cow's milk cheese from the village of Époisses in Côte-d'Or, Burgundy. Its rind is washed in brine and Marc de …
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636
Fleur du Maquis
Fleur du Maquis, also sold as Brin d'amour, is a Corsican raw sheep's milk cheese created in the 1950s. Its natural rind is dusted with maquis herbs, which …
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Salva Cremasco
Salva is a PDO washed-rind cow's milk cheese from the central plain of Lombardy, made from full-cream pasteurized milk and aged for months in squared truckles. It came …
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Crème Fraîche
Crème fraîche is a French soured cream made from cream and a bacterial culture, with 10 to 45% butterfat and a pH near 4.5. It is less sour …
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Vacherin
Vacherin is a French and Swiss cow's milk cheese made in two main styles: the soft, seasonal Mont d'Or from the Jura, sold in fir wood boxes, and …
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Boursault
Boursault is a soft, soft-ripened cheese from France made from pasteurized cow's milk. It features a bloomy rind, which helps develop its creamy interior. The texture is exceptionally …
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Κασκαβάλι Πίνδου / Kashkavali Pindou / Κασκαβάλ Πίνδου / Kashkaval Pindou
Κασκαβάλι Πίνδου, also known as Kashkavali Pindou, is a semi-hard, scalded curd cheese from Greece. It is recognized as a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) product. The cheese is …
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Friesla
Friesla is a semi-hard cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk in Devon, England. This artisan cheese has a pale yellow color and a natural rind. It offers a …
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Gailtaler Almkäse
Gailtaler Almkäse is a hard cheese made on mountain pastures in Austria's Gailtal, where 14 alpine dairies produce about 40 tonnes a year. Wheels range from 0.5 to …
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Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau is a soft, white cheese originating from the Ile-de-France region in France. Made from cow's milk, it can be produced using either pasteurized or unpasteurized milk. This …
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Fromage Blanc
Fromage blanc is an acid-coagulated fresh cheese from northern France and southern Belgium whose name means white cheese. It looks like yogurt, tastes mild, and works in desserts …
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Roule
Roule is a French cheese with a soft, creamy texture, usually flavoured with herbs and garlic. A piece of it has the structure of a slice of Swiss …
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Kidderton Ash
Kidderton Ash is a semi-soft cheese from the United Kingdom made from goat's milk. Its white interior is often contrasted by a thin layer of edible ash on …
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Brousse du Rove
Brousse du Rove is a goat cheese from Le Rove, near Marseille in the Bouches-du-Rhône. It is made from whole milk of Rove goats, set with vinegar, shaped …
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Queijo mestiço de Tolosa
Queijo Mestiço de Tolosa is a ripened, semi-soft cheese from Portugal. It is made from a mixture of ewe's milk and goat's milk in varying proportions. The cheese …
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Vacherin Mont-d'Or
Vacherin Mont d'Or is a soft, seasonal cow's milk cheese from the Jura region of Switzerland and France. It is bound in a strip of spruce bark, sold …
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.
