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Cheese and Wine

Here are a few fine classic associations between cheese and wine provided to you by Cheese-France, the French Cheese Guide:

cow - ewe - goat - blue cheese

(click on the cheese to learn more about it with Cheese-France)

Cow's Cheese
Beaufort	Chablis
Boursin	Dry white wine (Sancerre) or fruity red wine (Beaujolais)
Brie de Meaux	Champagne! Red Bordeaux or Bourgogne (Burgundy)
Camembert	Red Bordeaux or Beaujolais
Chaource	Champagne Sancerre or Chablis
Comté	Dry white wine (Sancerre), light red wine (Beaujolais), Jura yellow wine
Coulommiers	Red wine from Bordeaux, Cotes du Rhone or Languedoc. Sauvignon Blanc as a white wine
Epoisses	White wine from Burgundy or sweet wine (Sauternes). Alternatively, a Marc de Bourgogne's spirit
Livarot	Red Pomerol Tokay d'Alsace
Munster	With a beer! Gewürztraminer Full bodied red wine (Côte-Rotie or Chateauneuf-du-Pape)
Pont l'Eveque	Pinot Noir, Pomerol or Saint-Emilion red wines
Reblochon	Savoie white wine Fruity red wine (Beaujolais)
Saint Marcellin	Red wine from Côtes du Rhône (Châteauneuf du Pape or Gigondas)
Saint Nectaire	Light and fruity red wine (Beaujolais)
Tomme de Savoie	Medium-bodied red wine from the Côtes du Rhône (Crozes Hermitage) Riesling or Savoie as a white wine

cow - ewe - goat - blue cheese

Roquefort

Ewe/Sheep's Cheese

Ossau-Iraty

Jurançon
White Graves

Roquefort

Sweet wine (Muscat, Port or Sauternes)

cow - ewe - goat - blue cheese

Chèvre

Crottin de Chavignol

Goat Cheese

Banon

Sweet dessert wine
Provence's rosé

Chabichou du Poitou

White Loire wine (Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé)

Chèvre

White Loire wine (Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé)
Merlot red wine

Crottin de Chavignol

White Loire wine (Sancerre or Pouilly-Fumé)
Any Sauvignon Blanc wine

Valencay

Sancerre or Chablis

cow - ewe - goat - blue cheese

Fourme d'Ambert

Blue Cheese

Bleu d'Auvergne

Sweet wine (Port or Sauternes)
Strong red wines (Cahors or Côtes du Rhône)

Fourme d'Ambert

Medium-bodied red wine from the Côtes du Rhône (Crozes Hermitage)
Saumur Champigny as a white wine, Sauternes

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