Roquefort is a robust little cheese that has a reputation for being quite up-market, and while it is resultantly expensive, you'll see where that money is going as soon as you take your first bite into it. The cheese has a very odd legacy, with the milk commonly coming from ewe or sheep, and being left to mature in some French caves residing near the Pyrennes mountains. Typically I'm not a huge fan of cheese: I don't mind the taste, but the more robust cheeses seem so up themselves and virulently middle class that I tend to avoid them. While this doesn't exactly go away from that image, it is absolutely delicious, and you can see why it's so pricey. Some might ...  Read the complete review

I love cheese , so I'm always on the look out for something new to try, and one of my more recent discoveries is Roquefort, which is readily available in supermarkets, but which I sampled when my boyfriends parents came back from France with a large piece . Roquefort is a French cheese, and has 'Designated Protection of Origin' status - this essentially means that certain rules have to be in place for it to be called Roquefort- in this case, it must be aged in a group of natural caves in Roquefort-sur-Soulzon , in the South of France. It's made from sheep milk, and is a blue veined cheese - although apparently the blue was initially accidental . ...  Read the complete review

Roquefort is another big fish in the blue cheese world, made from ewe's milk it has a notable tangy flavour and is aged slightly longer than Stilton at a minimum of 3 months, until European law had a more notable effect there seemed to be various Roquefort wannabe's available in the supermarket, it now however has a stricter criteria, to meet this and for the cheese to be allowed to use the name Roquefort, it must be aged in the natural Combalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon in the south of France (Occitan). Roquefort pre-dates most cheeses and goes back as far as AD79. Being French it also has a romantic legend about it's invention, supposedly a shepherd ...  Read the complete review