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Published 2014
Vacherin (du) Mont d’Or, until recently, could be either Swiss or French, the name being shared amicably enough by cheese-makers in the Vaud (Switzerland) and Franche-Comté (France) The Swiss have now acquired exclusive legal right to the name, and the French product has to be called by another name, such as vacherin du Haut-Doubs. Rance (1989), who treats these cheeses at length and with particular affection, deplores this development. The cheese is soft and rich, a flat disc which may measure up to 30 cm (1') in diameter. It is bound by a strip of spruce bark and packed in a shallow spruce box which imparts a resinous fragrance to it.