Made the same way, each with what its own sources record.
Baron Bigod
Cheese from England, Suffolk, Fen Farm Dairy at Bungay on the River Waveney
Baron Bigod follows a Brie de Meaux recipe but is made on the farm where the milk is produced, from a single herd of Montbéliarde cows, with the milk gravity-fed to the vats. Unlike Brie de Meaux, which must be raw milk, its milk is gently heat-treated.
- Milk
- Cow milk from the farm's Montbéliarde herd, gently heat-treated
- Ripening
- up to 8 weeksReported
Sources: Fen Farm Dairy; Neal's Yard Dairy
Bavaria Blu / Cambozola
Cheese from Bavaria, Germany
Bavaria Blu combines two families in one cheese. It has the white Penicillium rind of a Camembert-type cheese and the blue veins of a blue cheese.
- Milk
- Cow milk with cream
- Moulds
- White mould on the rind and blue mould inside
- Ripening
- ~4–6 wkTypical
Explorateur
Cheese from France, Île-de-France
A triple-crème created in the 1950s, not an old regional cheese.
- Milk
- Cow milk
- Fat
- the fat content of its dry matter is about 75%Reported
Sources: cheese.com; Wikipedia; NHS (UK)
Frinault
Cheese from France, Loiret
Frinault is a 120 g disc 2 cm thick, made by a technique close to camembert's, and ripens about two weeks. Its cendré form is boxed in grey charcoal ash for 15 days, which gives a darker, firmer rind and a taste closer to Olivet cendré.
- Milk
- cow milk, whole, pasteurised
- Ripening
- P. candidum; about 2 wk at 12 °C in a humid cellarReported
- Size
- disc 10 cm × 2 cm, 120 g
Sources: Wikipédia (fr)
Gaperon
Cheese from France, Auvergne
Dome-shaped Auvergne soft cheese with garlic, pepper and buttermilk in the curd; cloth-hung to ripen.
- Rind
- Bloomy
- Size
- 250–500 g; 5–11 cm diameter, 5–10 cm high; dome
Sources: Wikipédia (fr); US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Harbison
Cheese from United States, Vermont
Harbison takes the bark wrap of Vacherin Mont d'Or, a European cheese, and gives it to an American pasteurised-milk soft cheese. Its cheeses are brined the day after making, and the spruce cambium comes from the farm's own woodlands.
- Ripening
- five weeksReported
- Style
- Wrapped in bark in the manner of Vacherin Mont d'Or
Sources: Spira S. 2012; Pollak S. 2018; Di Bruno Bros.; Jasper Hill Farm
Riopelle de l'IsleLe Riopelle de l'Isle
Cheese from Canada, Québec, Île aux Grues
Riopelle is a triple-cream cheese, with cream added to the milk, made from unpasteurised milk on Île aux Grues. Because the milk is raw, it must be held 60 days under Canadian law before sale.
- Type
- Soft, triple-cream, bloomy rind, from unpasteurised milk
- Format
- About 1.3 kg
Sources: Food and Drug Regulations (C.R.C.; Fromages du Québec (Plaisirs Gourmets; ANSES 2022; Health Canada
Olivet (incl. Olivet cendré)
Cheese from France, Loiret
The old farm Olivet was dusted with vine-shoot charcoal against sticking and insects. Today's industrial Olivets share the name but not the farm tradition; they are 230–240 g bloomy discs sold in blue, cendré, hay and pepper forms.
- Milk
- cow milk; current versions pasteurised
- Ripening
- P. candidum, 15 d in very humid rooms at 12 °C, then by typeReported
- Size
- current: 12 cm diameter, 2.5 cm high, 230–240 g; 1905: disc about 15 cm × 4 cm
Sources: Wikipédia (fr)
Pithiviers au foin (Bondaroy au foin)
Cheese from France, Loiret
It is ripened under hay, which dries the cheese so it keeps longer and adds a fruity note. A version with peppercorns instead of hay also exists.
- Milk
- Cow milk; one source says pasteurised
- Curd
- Uncooked and unpressed
- Ripening
- Ripened dry in hay for 3 to 5 weeksReported
- Rind
- White-yellow bloom, sprinkled with hay
- Size
- Disc about 12 cm across and 2.5–3 cm thick, about 300 g
- Fat
- 45 % fat (basis not stated)
Sources: Wikipédia (fr); CooksInfo
Red Hawk
Cheese from USA, California, Point Reyes Station
Red Hawk is a triple-cream cheese, normally a bloomy-rind style, turned into a washed-rind cheese. KQED's tasting report says it depends on the Brevibacterium linens in the West Marin air and cannot be made in Petaluma.
- Milk
- Organic cow milk with added cream (triple-cream)
- Ripening
- about 2 weeks before washingReported
- Rind
- Orange-red washed rind
- Size
- About 4 inches across, 2 inches high, 12 oz
Sources: KQED Bay Area Bites; culture; Wikipedia; US Food and Drug Administration 2016
Robiola Bosina
Cheese from Italy, Piedmont, Alta Langa
A dairy's branded robiola, square and made from mixed cow and sheep milk with cream, unlike the goat-milk Robiola di Roccaverano PDO.
- Fat
- Fat on dry matter (%) 55Reported
- Size
- About 300 g (product sheet) or 8 oz and 3 inches square (Culture)
Sources: Zanetti S.p.A.; Culture
Tunworth
Cheese from England
An English Camembert-style cheese from pasteurised whole cow milk, with a thin wrinkly rind rather than the thick flat white coat of most British soft cheeses.
- Milk
- Pasteurised whole cow milk
- Ripening
- average age 6 weeksReported
- Weight
- About 250 g
Sources: Neal's Yard Dairy; Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses; Pipers Farm; The Cheese Atlas