# The best Swiss cheeses

Gruyère, Emmentaler and Appenzeller: Switzerland's best-known traditional cheeses, many with protected designation of origin (AOP).

- 39 votes · 15 items
- Dec 16, 2020 · Michael Koch
- https://even.best/en/l/2346/the-best-swiss-cheeses

## Top 15

1. **Bündner Bergkäse** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Mountain cheese from Graubünden.
2. **Le Gruyère AOP** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Hard cheese from Fribourg, nutty and savoury.
3. **Appenzeller** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Washed with a secret herbal brine.
4. **Raclette du Valais AOP** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Valais cheese made for melting.
5. **Vacherin Mont-d'Or AOP** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Soft winter cheese in a spruce box.
6. **Vacherin Fribourgeois AOP** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Semi-hard cheese, base of moitié-moitié fondue.
7. **Berner Alpkäse AOP** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Tangy Alpine cheese from the Bernese Oberland.
8. **Glarner Schabziger** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Green herb cheese with blue fenugreek.
9. **L'Etivaz AOP** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alpine cheese made over a wood fire.
10. **Mutschli** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Small, mild Alpine wheel.
11. **Emmentaler AOP** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The cheese with the big holes.
12. **Sbrinz AOP** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Extra-hard grating cheese from central Switzerland.
13. **Tilsiter** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Semi-hard cheese from eastern Switzerland.
14. **Tête de Moine AOP** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Jura cheese shaved into rosettes with a girolle.
15. **Formaggio d'alpe ticinese AOP** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Alpine cheese from Ticino.

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