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 28)
Number 1 is the most popular. Click any row to learn more about the cheese.
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Baita Friuli
Baita Friuli is a cow's milk cheese originating from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in Italy. Made with unpasteurized milk, this cheese has a firm texture and a natural …
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Aubisque Pyrenees
Aubisque Pyrenees is a semi-hard cheese from the Béarnaise region in Pyrénées-Atlantique, France. Made from a blend of cow's and sheep's milk, this cheese offers a mild and …
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Queso de Afuega'l pitu
Afuega'l pitu is a soft cow's milk cheese from Asturias, Spain, with protected designation of origin status. It comes plain white or paprika red, shaped like a small …
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Limburger kass
Limburger Kass is a semi-soft, smear-ripened cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk. It is known for its strong aroma, which can be quite pungent as it ripens. Despite …
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Lajta
Lajta is a soft cheese from Hungary made from pasteurized cow's milk. With a fat content of 50%, it offers a creamy texture that's easy to spread. The …
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Single Gloucester
Single Gloucester is a crumbly, low-fat cheese from Gloucestershire, England, made from the milk of Gloucester cattle. It carries Protected Designation of Origin status and can only be …
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Spreadable
Spreadable cheese is a soft, creamy cheese that is easy to spread on bread or crackers. It usually has a mild, slightly tangy flavor that can vary depending …
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Pecorino Ginepro
Pecorino Ginepro is a semi-hard cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. This artisan cheese is known for its fruity and savory flavor …
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Venaco
Venaco is a farmhouse cheese from the village of Venaco in central Corsica, made from raw sheep's and goat's milk. It has a soft paste, a washed rind, …
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Pecorino Toscanello
Pecorino Toscanello is a semi-hard cheese from Tuscany, Italy, made from pasteurized sheep's milk. This cheese has a mild flavor and a nutty aroma, making it approachable for …
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Crumbly Lancashire
Crumbly Lancashire is an English cow's milk cheese and the newest of the three Lancashire varieties. Made from a single day's milk and matured for 6 to 8 …
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Berkswell
Berkswell is a hard sheep's milk cheese made at Ram Hall Farm near Berkswell in the West Midlands, England. Draining in plastic colanders gives it an unusual shape, …
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Queijo de Évora
Queijo de Évora is a PDO ewe's milk cheese from Évora, in Portugal's Alentejo. It is cured, hard or semi-hard, yellowish in color, and known for a slightly …
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Basket Cheese
Basket cheese is a Mediterranean cheese shaped inside a basket, which leaves a woven pattern on its surface. The Turkish version is a fresh curd cheese from the …
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Smoked Lincolnshire Poacher
Smoked Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard cheese made from cow's milk in the United Kingdom. It has a pale yellow color and a firm texture. The cheese is …
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Zázrivské vojky
Zázrivské vojky is a traditional cheese product from Slovakia. It is a steamed cheese made from cow's milk, available in smoked or unsmoked varieties. The cheese is formed …
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Istrian
Istrian cheese, from the Istria region of Croatia, is typically made from sheep’s milk, although goat’s and cow’s milk versions are also produced. It has a hard texture …
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Santa Gadea
Santa Gadea is a Spanish cheese made from goat's milk. It has a soft to semi-soft texture and is white in color. The cheese offers a creamy and …
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Old Winchester
Old Winchester, also known as Old Smales, is a hard cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk in Landford, England. It has a firm texture and a rich, nutty …
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Tomme Brulee
Tomme Brulee is a French cheese made from pasteurized sheep's milk. This hard cheese is known for its smokey flavor and has a fruity aroma that adds to …
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Yr Afr
Yr Afr is a Welsh cheese made from unpasteurized goat's milk. It has a soft texture and a mold-ripened rind, giving it a creamy consistency that melts in …
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Bethmale des Pyrenees
Bethmale des Pyrenees is a traditional French cheese made from cow's milk in the Pyrenees region. It features a semi-hard texture and a mild flavor that makes it …
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Cabecou
Cabécou is a small round goat cheese from the Midi-Pyrénées in southern France, usually made with raw milk. It weighs under 40 grams (1.4 oz), tastes mildly lactic, …
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Barberey
Barberey is a French cheese originating from Troyes in the Aube region. Made from skimmed cow's milk, it has a fat content ranging between 20-30%, resulting in a …
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Pérail
Pérail is a soft sheep's milk cheese from Aveyron in southern France, sold in small rounds with an ivory, wrinkly rind. Older wheels taste distinctly sheepy.
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.
