Selles sur Cher
Selles sur Cher is one of France's more recent Appellation Controlee cheeses, being granted this status in 1975. It has however been made for centuries by farmers for their families’ consumption. The recipe has been passed from generation to generation as a useful way of using their goats’ milk.
Produced in an area south of Blois in the Loire valley, Selles sur Cher is a small disc of cheese with a very fine coating of ash on which grows a fine blue/white mould. The interior of the cheese is fine textured, succulent and velvety. The smell is of walnuts. The lingering flavour is also nutty, slightly sour and salty with a hint of sweetness.