The tomme de Savoie cheese is a french in the region of Savoie (Savoie and Haute-Savoie). Born at the heart of the valleys, rustic, rude, rough, the tomme de Savoie cheese is a real mountain, and that is the best known and tommes Alpine Savoie. Made used by farmers for their own consumption, it is also probably the oldest cheeses of Savoy and is part of the economic and cultural heritage of the two departments. She enjoys the regional label Savoy and a PGI achieved in 1996.


It is a cheese-based, initially, milk cow breeds Tarine (Tarentaise) and Abundance. Cow's milk Montbeliard of race has been included later, and recently, and in part, the race Prim'Holstein - origin of a debate, however, with the obligation not to exceed the actual origin .


The tomme cheese is an uncooked pressed for an average weight of 1.6 kg. The emprésurage is between 30 and 35 ° C from a rennet end of the calf rennet then, after mixing, the tomme is molded and then salted. The crust, always grey mould is covered with yellow or red and is sometimes pierced with holes, like the dough.


His best tasting period lasts from June to October after a refining of 10 weeks in cellars with traditional care and rubbing turnaround for the flowered crust develops. But it is also excellent from March to December. Its paste, white to pale yellow, sticky and gives off a pungent cellar or moldy. It melts in the mouth, and develops a nutty taste. The tommes made with milk summer are more fragrant.


There are three types of manufacturing tomme a farmer manufacturing quality (green pellet), excellent craftsmanship "fruit", local name of a cooperative (red) and industrial manufacturing. Moreover, since late 2003, the periphery of the tomme de Savoie is trimmed SAVOIE "letters" in capital letters, with an inscription in inkjet, after a technology conforms to standards food security and without any alteration. But the generalization of this identification requiring heavy financial and logistical efforts, it should be done only slowly from March 2004.

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