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Pélardon
Pélardon is a small round goat cheese from the Cévennes and Languedoc hills of southern France, with a soft natural rind that may show blue-grey moulds as it matures. The paste moves from moist and mildly acid when fresh to denser and more aromatic with age, carrying notes of chestnut, dry herbs, and warm goat milk shaped by Mediterranean scrub pastures. Serve at room temperature on boards, melt lightly over potatoes or tartines, or age toward a firmer picnic cheese. AOP Pélardon unites several historic Cévenol names under one protected small-format goat cheese, distinct from Alpine picodons and Loire ash pyramids.
Also known as: Pélardon
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Farmhouse goat rounds known as pélardons were staples of Cévennes and Languedoc pastoral diets.
Pélardon obtained AOC protection covering the Cévennes and adjacent southern production zone.
EU PDO status formalised Pélardon as the protected goat cheese of the Cévennes hills.