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Appenzeller Extra

Appenzeller Extra is a semi-hard Swiss alpine cheese produced from raw cow’s milk. Its extended maturation period exceed...

Swiss Alpine Cow Milk Semi Hard

8.9 Great

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Ossau-Iraty

Ossau-Iraty is a semi-hard, aged cheese originating in the French Basque Country. It’s produced exclusively from raw she...

French Basque Dop Sheep Milk

8.8 Great

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Gorwydd Caerphilly

Farmhouse Caerphilly made by the Trethowan family using unpasteurized milk, aged longer than commercial versions to deve...

Traditional Welsh British Cow Milk

8.6 Great

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Västerbottensost

Swedish hard cow's milk cheese first produced in Burträsk, Västerbotten county in the 1870s, noted for its granular text...

Traditional Northern Swedish Cow Milk

8.4 Great

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Queso de la Serena

Spanish PDO sheep's milk cheese from Badajoz, Extremadura, distinguished by using cardoon thistle flower as a vegetable...

Spanish Sheep Milk Semi Hard Extremaduran

8.3 Great

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Appleby's Cheshire

Traditional unpasteurized clothbound Cheshire cheese made by the Appleby family at Hawkstone Abbey Farm in Shropshire, a...

Traditional British Crumbly Cow Milk

8.0 Great

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Aged Kasseri

Aged Kasseri is a Greek PDO sheep's milk cheese from Macedonia and Thrace, firmer and sharper than young Kasseri, tradit...

Traditional Greek Hard Sheep Milk

7.7 Good

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Manchego Curado

Spanish PDO sheep's milk cheese from La Mancha, with 'curado' denoting aging of 3 to 6 months, yielding a firm body and...

Spanish Dop Castilian Sheep Milk

7.6 Good

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Oscypek

Oscypek is a smoked sheep's milk cheese made by highland shepherds in Poland's Tatra Mountains, granted EU Protected Des...

Polish Artisan Smoked Sheep Milk

7.6 Good

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Pecorino Crotonese

Pecorino Crotonese is an Italian PDO sheep's milk cheese from the Crotone area of Calabria, produced in fresh and aged f...

Italian Traditional Southern Hard

7.5 Good

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Redykołka

Redykołka is a small, ornately carved Polish sheep's milk cheese from the Tatra Mountain region, closely related to Oscy...

Polish Artisan Smoked Sheep Milk

7.0 Good

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Prästost

Swedish 'priest's cheese' with roots in the 16th century, when clergy accepted it as tithe payments; now a mild, semi-ha...

Historic Traditional Swedish Cow Milk

6.9 Fair

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Kefalotyri

Greek hard cheese made from sheep's or goat's milk, one of Greece's oldest varieties, with a sharp, salty flavor and fir...

Traditional Greek Hard Sheep Milk

6.8 Fair

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Grevé

Swedish semi-hard cheese with large holes, developed in 1964 by Swedish dairies as a domestically produced alternative t...

Traditional Swedish Cow Milk Semi Hard

6.8 Fair

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Kanterkaas

Kanterkaas is a Dutch hard cheese flavored with cloves and cumin seeds, produced in the Netherlands and closely related...

Traditional Dutch Farmhouse Cow Milk

6.8 Fair

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Kashkaval

Kashkaval is a semi-hard stretched-curd cheese traditional across the Balkans and Middle East, made from sheep's or cow'...

Bulgarian Traditional Mediterranean Sheep Milk

6.6 Fair

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Aged Mizithra

Greek hard whey cheese made from sheep or goat milk byproducts; the dried aged form, xeromizithra, becomes a firm, inten...

Traditional Greek Whey Hard

6.5 Fair

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Sardo Argentino

Sardo Argentino is a hard Argentine grating cheese inspired by Sardinian Pecorino, typically made from cow's milk and us...

Traditional Argentinian Hard Sheep Milk

6.5 Fair

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Nøkkelost

Norwegian semi-hard cow's milk cheese flavored with cumin and cloves, whose name 'key cheese' references the Leiden coat...

Norwegian Traditional Spiced Cow Milk

6.4 Fair

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Tilsiter

Tilsiter is a semi-hard washed-rind cheese originating in the town of Tilsit (now Sovetsk, Russia) in the mid-19th centu...

German Traditional Cow Milk Semi Hard

6.4 Fair