Bleu Bénédictin is a Canadian
blue cheese made by the monks at the Benedictine Abbey of
Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec.
The cheese is a semi-soft, whole
milk blue cheese deeply veined with the
Roquefort penicillium mold. A wheel of Bénédictin weighs and has a whitish-grey coating.
The
aroma of the cheese is reminiscent of
mushrooms and has a creamy, delicately
salted
flavour
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. The middle of the cheese wheel is especially creamy.
See also
*
List of cheeses
References
External links
Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac
entry on the Canadian Cheese Encyclopedia.
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Canadian cheeses
Blue cheeses
Cow's-milk cheeses