The French Christmas Cheese is Vacherin de Mont d'Or.
Vacherin de Mont d'Or is a type of French Cheese that is often eaten during Christmas time in France.
Some other popular French Cheeses include Brillat Savarin, Brie de Meaux, Ossau Iraty, Comte and Roquefort.
Vacherin de Mont d'Or is a popular cheese from the Jura mountains which is only made in the fall and winter time and pairs well with a white Jura wine or champagne.
Brillat Savarin is a decadent cheese from Normandy that looks like Brie.
Brie de Meaux is a soft, velvety cheese with a rich, mushroom flavor and paris well with crackers or fresh baguettes.
Ossau Iraty is an ancient Pyrenean cheese made with ewes milk which has a creamy smoothness and a nutty finish.
Comte is a hard cheese with a nutty and earthy flavor and a crunchy texture and can be eaten on its own or even melted in fondues, sandwiches or soups.
Roquefort is a famous sheep milk cheese that has a strong and tangy flavor and is aged in caves near Roquefort sur SOulzon.
Roquefort blue cheese is the strongest tasting blue cheese because it has an intense flavor and intense smell and is made from Sheep milk in France.
Roquefort blue cheese has a very strong smell and strong flavor that also balances the salty and delicate notes.
The Roquefort blue cheese is also soft and crumbly in texture.
Roquefort blue cheese is a white, creamy and tangy and slightly moist blue cheese with veins of blue mold and it has a characteristic fragrance and flavor with a taste of butyric acid.
Roquefort blue cheese is also not allowed in the US as the FDA bans Roquefort and other French cheeses like Roquefort because E coli bacteria is present even though it's a harmless type of E. Coli bacteria.
As the curds are formed into wheels, a blue cheese mold (Penicillium roqueforti) is added to the cheese before it is left to age for 60 to 90 days.
During the aging process, the cheese is spiked with stainless steel rods that allow oxygen into the middle of the wheel and encourage the mold to grow.
Valdeon blue cheese is also another strong tasting blue cheese.