Epoisses Cheese

For goodness sake! How on earth can you rate chocolates as similar products to a whiffy French cheese? You state that similar products include Cadbury's Roses chocolates. Are you mad ? Why don't you do what one would expect and list similar cheeses? I can think of several that might fit the bill including puant normande and camembert - it seems your commercial needs have overcome your rationality, and that's being kind! Please would you try to buck the trend for lazy commercialism and do your readers justice? Maybe this is too short for a premium review but I would be surprised if you would print it anyway! I don't think you will print anything critical of your rather ...  Read the complete review

Epoisses, officially called Epoisses de Bourgogne, it is a soft cow's cheese that with a bread crust coloured washed rind that is a bit sweaty generally, it is washed in a local pomace brandy and was a firm favourite with Napoleon. The man clearly had good taste as it's one of my faves too but don't expect to have any friends wilst eating this cheese and certainly don't expect a good relationship if you are driving back some from France! The cheese is very pongy, so much so that it is in fact banned from travelling on French public transport with the cheese. It is made in the village of Epoisses which is between Dijon and Auxerre, is made ...  Read the complete review