Banon

Banon is a goat cheese from the town of the same name in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

Formerly, the haut-provençale farmers wrapped the Tomes in chestnut leaves to keep them soft and to keep them until winter, the season when goats stopped giving milk.The sweet curd process helps the goat milk keep its sweetness in the hot, dry climate. Wrapped in chestnut leaves to keep out air, it developed its special aromas, the fruit of alchemy between the fermentation of the sweet curd and the migration of tannins from the chestnut leaves to the cheese.

Presented in its coat of dried chestnut leaves tied together by a strand of natural raffia, this cream-colored or mottled cheese, that is creamy to the core, provides the palate with all the tastes of the Haute-Provence underbrush.