Raw milk Alpine cheese with creamy sweetness, gentle hazelnut, and a supple, meltable paste.
Young Comté AOP from France's Jura, aged 6 months. Supple raw cow's milk paste, fresh cream and hazelnut, mild and milk-forward. Order online.
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Comté is a raw cow's milk Alpine cheese from the Jura Massif in Franche-Comté, made under AOP rules that pin the recipe to a specific corner of eastern France. This one is aged six months, right in the young end of the Comté spectrum where the milk still leads.
The paste is a pale straw color, semi-hard and supple, breaking in clean slabs under the knife with real moisture still in it. On the palate it opens with fresh cream and sweet milk, then a soft toasted hazelnut note that sits underneath rather than out front. The natural rind adds a quiet cellar and hay pull on the back end, keeping things savory. There's very little bite here, and none of the deep crystalline crunch you'd get from a longer-aged wheel, which is exactly the point of a six month.
This is the Comté for people who want the milk and the sweetness of the style without the intensity of an older cave-aged version. It melts beautifully, which makes it a workhorse for gratins, croque monsieurs, and fondue, and it holds its own on a board next to fresh fruit and a lighter white wine.
Semi-hard and supple, the paste breaks in clean slabs under the knife with a little give left in it, still moist rather than dry or crystalline.
Gentle and approachable at this age, milky and lightly nutty without the deep concentration of an older wheel. A good entry into the Comté world.
A mid-length finish that carries fresh cream and a quiet hazelnut note for a beat or two after the swallow, clean rather than persistent.
Fresh cream and lightly sweet milk sit right on the front of the palate, still very much in the young Alpine range where the milk shines through.
A soft toasted hazelnut note runs underneath the cream, present but not yet the brown-butter depth you get in a 24 month wheel.
Just a whisper of cellar and hay from the natural rind, clean and mild at this age.
No real bite or piquancy, this one sits firmly on the mild, sweet side of the Alpine spectrum.
Natural rind
Thin natural brushed rind, edible but usually trimmed. Contributes a light cellar and hay note that grounds the sweeter paste.
Comté stands on its own, but the right partners turn a wedge into a moment. Regional pairings first — they were built for each other.
Young Comté leans milky and lightly nutty, so a Jura white from the same region or a crisp Riesling picks up the sweetness without overpowering it. Champagne cuts the cream cleanly.
Fresh orchard fruit and a drizzle of light honey lean into the milky sweetness at this age, while cornichons and walnuts give a savory counterweight for a board.
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