Pont L'eveque AOP Cheese, Isigny 7.3 oz

Pont L'eveque AOP Cheese, Isigny 7.3 oz

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Pont-l’Évêque cheese was created in the 12th century by Cistercian monks living near Caen, in Normandy. At the time, this cheese was known as “Angelot”, a term derived from the name of a coin that served as a means of exchange, remuneration and taxation!

Pont-l’Évêque has been well-known since 1622, when Norman writer Hélie le Cordier published a 16-verse poem in honour of “Pont-L’Évêque”, which contains the famous lines “Everyone also loves it because it is made with so much art that, young or old, it is only cream”.

This is how Pont-l’Évêque, seeking to stand out from the beginning of the 18th century, took on its square shape with wooden moulds.

Pont-l’Évêque is therefore the product of a long-standing tradition of grassland and dairy farming. It requires the valuable traditional know-how that our Cooperative has been offering since 1972, when the cheese first made its appearance in our ripening rooms.

In 1996, it was awarded the precious Protected Designation of Origin, or PDO, label. This guarantees the origin of the milk, the way the cows are fed and reared, as well as the preserved know-how and local production of this cheese.