Cheeses beginning with A
20 cheeses under A.
🇫🇷 FranceAbbaye de Tamié
A soft cow's-milk cheese aged in the cellars of a Savoyard abbey by monks.Cow · Bloomy rind · Milky and fresh
🇫🇷 FranceAbbaye de Timadeuc CheeseFourmaj Abati Tinadeuc
A soft, salty cow's-milk cheese made by Trappist monks in Brittany.Cow · Semi-soft · Salty
🇨🇿 Czech RepublicAbertam cheese
A hard, pressed sheep's-milk cheese from the Bohemian mountains of the Czech Republic.Sheep · Hard
🇬🇪 Georgia and 1 moreAbkhazian cheeseაფხაზური ყველი
A stretched-curd cheese made from sheep or cow milk, kept by the Abkhaz diaspora in Turkey.Sheep · Stretched curd
🇫🇷 FranceAbondance
A semi-hard raw cow's milk cheese from Haute-Savoie aged on spruce boards.Cow · Semi-hard · Savoury and brothy
🇪🇸 SpainAfuega'l pitu
A soft, unpasteurised cow's milk cheese from Asturias, shaped like a mitre or sphere and often dusted with paprika.Cow · Milky and fresh
🇫🇷 FranceAisy cendré
A washed-rind cow's-milk cheese rolled in wood ash and aged for two weeks.Cow · Washed rind · Smoky
🇸🇾 Syria and 5 moreAkkawiجبنة عكاوي
A white brined cow's milk cheese from the Levant named after Acre.Cow · Brined · Salty
🇨🇦 CanadaAllegretto cheese
A semi-soft sheep's milk cheese with a washed rind from Quebec.Sheep · Semi-soft · Sweet and caramel
🇮🇹 Italy and 3 moreAlpkäse
A seasonal hard cow's-milk cheese made on high Alpine pastures in summer.Cow · Hard · Tangy and lactic
🇺🇸 United StatesAmablu
A creamy American blue cheese aged in sandstone caves since 1936.Cow · Blue
🇺🇸 United StatesAmerican cheese
A mild, meltable processed cheese made from cheddar or Colby with sodium citrate.Cow · Processed · Salty
🇨🇾 CyprusAnariαναρή
A fresh whey cheese from Cyprus made from sheep or goat milk.Sheep · Fresh · Salty
🇬🇷 GreeceAnthotyrosΑνθότυρος
A traditional Greek whey cheese made from sheep or goat milk, available in fresh and dry forms.Sheep · Fresh · Sweet and caramel
🇨🇭 SwitzerlandAppenzeller
A hard, washed-rind cow's-milk cheese from northeast Switzerland with a herbal brine rind.Cow · Hard · Nutty
🇪🇬 EgyptAreeshجبنة قريش
A soft, crumbly Egyptian cheese made from skimmed buffalo or cow milk.Buffalo · Fresh · Tangy and lactic
🇪🇸 SpainArzúa-Ulloa cheese
A soft, creamy cow's-milk cheese from Galicia with a thin yellow rind and sweet grassy flavour.Bloomy rind · Sweet and caramel
🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 moreAsaderoqueso asadero
A fresh Mexican cheese made from cow and goat milk that melts easily for grilling.Cow · Fresh · Savoury and brothy
🇮🇹 Italy and 2 moreAsiago
A pressed cow's milk cheese from the Veneto plateau, sold fresh or aged.Cow · Semi-soft · Sweet and caramel
🇫🇮 Finland and 1 moreAura
A Finnish cow's-milk blue cheese aged for six or twelve weeks.Cow · Blue · Salty
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Akkawi: Paul Joseph, CC BY 2.0, source
- Anthotyros: Giorgos ab1234, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Anari: Zlerman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- American cheese: jeffreyw, CC BY 2.0, source
- Aisy cendré: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arzúa-Ulloa cheese: :Ficheiro:Festa do queixo de Arzúa 2.jpg feito por Adrián Estévez ( Es, GFDL, source
- Asadero: Megalibrarygirl, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Amablu: Loganh7, CC0, source
- Abondance: Coyau, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Asiago: Shabicht, CC0, source
- Afuega'l pitu: Denissf, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Appenzeller: Ulled, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Abbaye de Tamié: Tangopaso, Public domain, source
- Aura: Suvi Korhonen, CC BY 2.0, source
- Alpkäse: Guy Waterval, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Abbaye de Timadeuc Cheese: Salsero35, CC BY-SA 3.0, source