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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

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)

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

camembert
Camembert

 

 

Beaufort
Beaufort

 

 

Brie de Meaux
Brie de Meaux

 

 

Epoisses
Epoisses

 

 

Tomme de Savoie
Tomme de Savoie

cow - ewe - goat - blue cheese



 

Roquefort
Roquefort

Ewe/Sheep's Cheese

Ossau-Iraty

Jurançon
White Graves

Roquefort

Sweet wine (Muscat, Port or Sauternes)

cow - ewe - goat - blue cheese



 

Chevre (Goat Cheese)
Chèvre

 

Crottin de Chavignol
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
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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