Port Salut Reviews

I love cheese but like most people I try to watch how much I eat of it and one of my absolute all time favourites is Port Salut. Port Salut was originally created in 1816 by Trappist monks at the Abbaye du Port Du Salut in Entrammes in the Loire Valley. The brand Port Du Salut was officially registered in 1874 and subsequently became ...  Read the complete review

Port Salut is a fine French cheese made from pasteurized cow's milk. It is a semi-soft cheese from Brittany and was first made by Trappist monks at the Notre Dame du Port du Salut in Entrammes in the early 19th century. The name of their society S.A.F.R can still be found on the cheese today. Port Salut is very soft and light, due to ...  Read the complete review

My friendly Sainsbury's store let me buy a small portion of this cheese for 50p (0.06 kg, £8.29 per kg). Port Salut goes well with strong dry cider or Amberley Semillon. And is ideal for cooking. It is made from pasteurised milk and is suitable for consumption by pregnant women. ***THE PRODUCT*** The cheese was created in ...  Read the complete review

I bought a portion OF Port Salut cheese from my local Tesco the other day. Port salut cheese is made in disks about 23 c in diameter you would need to be feeding a lot of people if you bought a whole piece. This cheese is cut into smaller segments and is usually wrapped in cling film. And there is a small circular one available in Tescos too, I ...  Read the complete review

An ex boyfriend introduced me to Port Salut back in the 1980's and it has been a favourite of mine ever since that time. It is made in France from cow's milk and defined as a semi hard cheese although it is quite soft in texture. Originally made by monks in Brittany, this cheese is now widely available in most good supermarkets ...  Read the complete review

Port Salut is a semi-soft french cheese it has a creamy texture, and a lovely mild taste. It is similar to a very soft Edam. It is possibly the nicest soft cheese that I have ever tasted, and complements a glass of port or a fruity red wine. This in mind do remember that a cheese must go with a wine and this definitely does not suit ...  Read the complete review

I first discovered port salut, when my parents bought some for christmas from the local supermarket. I was over the moon, it was just like cream cheese, but with more flavour, and such a suberb texture, must harder than cream cheese, with more like an edam texture.The creamy full bodied taste made me hungry for more, the only thing i didnt like ...  Read the complete review

I discovered Port Salut some time ago, but it still remains one of my firm favourites when it comes to cheese. So many cheese gourmets and connoisseurs wax lyrical about all these fancy cheeses that no-one has never heard of, and makes out that the really smelly ones are the best, but in my experience, that is not necessarily the case. ...  Read the complete review