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The best Swiss cheeses

The top 3 according to 39 votes from people: Bündner Bergkäse · Le Gruyère AOP · Appenzeller. (Updated Dec 16, 2020.)

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

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Top 15

  1. 1

    Bündner Bergkäse

    Mountain cheese from Graubünden.

    ▲ 4 ▼ 1

    3
  2. 2

    Le Gruyère AOP

    Hard cheese from Fribourg, nutty and savoury.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  3. 3

    Appenzeller

    Washed with a secret herbal brine.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  4. 4

    Raclette du Valais AOP

    Valais cheese made for melting.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  5. 5

    Vacherin Mont-d'Or AOP

    Soft winter cheese in a spruce box.

    ▲ 3 ▼ 0

    3
  6. 6

    Vacherin Fribourgeois AOP

    Semi-hard cheese, base of moitié-moitié fondue.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 0

    2
  7. 7

    Berner Alpkäse AOP

    Tangy Alpine cheese from the Bernese Oberland.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  8. 8

    Glarner Schabziger

    Green herb cheese with blue fenugreek.

    ▲ 2 ▼ 1

    1
  9. 9

    L'Etivaz AOP

    Alpine cheese made over a wood fire.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  10. 10

    Mutschli

    Small, mild Alpine wheel.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  11. 11

    Emmentaler AOP

    The cheese with the big holes.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  12. 12

    Sbrinz AOP

    Extra-hard grating cheese from central Switzerland.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  13. 13

    Tilsiter

    Semi-hard cheese from eastern Switzerland.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 1

    0
  14. 14

    Tête de Moine AOP

    Jura cheese shaved into rosettes with a girolle.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 2

    -1
  15. 15

    Formaggio d'alpe ticinese AOP

    Alpine cheese from Ticino.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 2

    -1

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