The production

TÊTE DE MOINE, Bellelay cheese is a first-class product crafted in small cheese dairies according to traditional methods which have to comply with the requirements of the AOC specifications. Milk producers, cheese-makers and ripening experts use modern procedures, but they work according to traditional and more time-consuming methods than those used for industrialized cheese production.

In summer, the cows graze on rich herbal pastures, in winter they are fed on hay, never on silage. TÊTE DE MOINE, Bellelay cheese is produced on a daily basis with fresh mountain milk from the region of origin - the Swiss Jura.

Did you know that 1 kg of TÊTE DE MOINE, Bellelay cheese requires 10 litres of high-quality milk? The cheese matures on pine boards in the region of origin for at least 3 months. It has to pass stringent quality testing before it is bestowed with the designation TÊTE DE MOINE, Bellelay cheese.