Description

Affineur Walo's Red Nose Gold Label is a hard mountain cheese from the canton of Bern. Affinated with red wine for 12 months; it is strong and spicy with a slightly sweet finish and a hint of red wine. Ideal as a dessert cheese and in warm cuisine.

Fun Fact: Affineur Walo won 17(!) various awards for this cheese including a Gold Certificate at the World Cheese Awards in 2019.

Sold by the pound
Product of Switzerland

Who is Affineur Walo?

"I was working for a big chemical group when Swiss Government decided to dissolve the Swiss cheese union and our company was likely to disappear. This was the moment I decided to continue to tell the story of the Swiss cheese.
I love these stories cheese is telling you by smelling and tasting them. But what if the cheese does not tell you a story anymore. This happens when the industry is treating the milk, the milk is pasteurized, microfiltered and going through a Baktifuge separator until she is completely neutral and sterile, and the cheese loses his story. I want that our kids will still have the possibility to listen to the cheese story and that is why I fight every day for the traditional cheese making.
As Affineur Walo I am now leading the business in the 5th Generation and we have won a great deal of awards. In addition to that we have been honoured by the historical Museum in Bern together with big names as Tobler (Toblerone), Bloch (Ragusa). I guess I am the first Affineur having a place in the museum.
More than 150 years of family-expertise in cheese-production: Affineur Walo has received more awards than Switzerland has mountains.
Life is too short to eat bad cheese."