mountain cheese
Aged pastoral product
Mountain cheese is a broad category of firm to hard cheeses traditionally made in alpine regions, where cattle graze on high pastures.
The milk from these elevations produces distinctively flavored cheese—often nutty, complex, and slightly sweet.
Gruyère, Comté, and Appenzeller are classic examples.
The fondue called for mountain cheese.
- gruyereSwiss melting cheese
- rindTough outer covering
- richHaving much of something
- sharpFine-edged, or astute
- firmSolid or resolute
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