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Discover our regional cheese boxes, selected by Xavier Thuret (winner of the prestigious Meilleur Ouvrier de France award) and designed specifically to meet the requirements of the hospitality industry.
A selection by Xavier Thuret
La Sélection is composed of boxes of traditional cheeses, selected by Xavier Thuret. Winner of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (best French craftman) award for cheese makers in 2007, Xavier Thuret is a recognised expert in cheese.
The Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF) competition rewards excellence in 230 professions, including that of cheese maker. This competition, comprising a number of tests, honours the quality and know-how of the best artisan cheese makers.
Xavier Thuret is passionate about the terroir, and his ambition is not only to promote French gastronomy throughout the world but also to reinterpret the cheeseboard. From Saint-Marcellin topped with caviar to Camembert with kiwi, Xavier tirelessly seeks to bring a fresh perspective to cheese and to raise its profile worldwide. Today, he offers his selection of the best French cheeses, and his expert advice with bold and original pairing ideas.
Dedicated to the hospitality and catering industry
Created specifically to meet the needs of the hospitality and catering industry, our boxes will allow you to prepare your cheese boards with optimum efficiency. Each box contains whole or pre-cut cheeses so that you can assemble your cheese boards or plates quickly.
Our assortment of cheeses enables you to optimise your purchases and effectively manage your costs with fixed-price boxes from a single supplier. A data sheet is included for each cheese, which will help you to train your teams in how to store and cut the cheeses.
Each data sheet features advice from MOF winner Xavier Thuret, allowing you to enhance your offering with an original approach, for example by pairing Espelette pepper with Ossau-Iraty. You can also serve cheeses from La Sélection for your brunches and breakfasts, or to accompany a glass of wine or spirits.
Our know-how
Xavier Thuret proposes a selection of PDO and PGI cheeses made and matured in our dairies.
French cheese at its best:
In his selection, Xavier Thuret offers an array of PDO and PGI cheeses made and matured in our dairies in the heartlands of France.
PDO (Protected Designation of Origine) is a European quality label, the aim of which is to protect and preserve regional products. PDO cheeses are processed and prepared in a geographical area determined according to recognised know-how and precise specifications.PDO guarantees that all stages of production comply with specifications, from milk production to maturing the cheeses.
PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) is attributed to cheese whose quality, reputation or other characteristics are related to its geographical origin. In our selection, you will also find local cheeses such as Pérail, produced in keeping with the cheese-making traditions of the Aveyron shepherds, and extra-aged Mimolette, made using techniques passed down through the centuries.
The leading French name in PDO cheeses
With our 24 dairies, the Lactalis Group is the foremost manufacturer of PDO cheeses in France, with a portfolio of 20 Protected Designation of Origin cheeses: Abondance, Banon, Bleu d’Auvergne, Bleu des Causses, Brie de Meaux, Brie de Melun, Brocciu, Camembert de Normandie, Cantal, Comté, Fourme d’Ambert, Fourme de Montbrison, Livarot, Neufchâtel, Ossau-Iraty, Pont-l’Evêque, Reblochon, Rocamadour, Roquefort and Saint-Nectaire.
The Lactalis Group’s unique development model combines the promotion of its dairy and cheese-making heritage with enduring and dynamic international development. This task has been assigned to Lactalis International, which today exports to more than 80 countries via specialist networks of importers and distributors, and has branch offices in 14 countries.
Due to our cheese-making expertise and international reach, we can supply La Sélection assortment boxes throughout the world by air, thereby guaranteeing the freshness of our cheeses.
LA SÉLECTION
Xavier Thuret, winner of the Meilleur Ouvrier de France award, invites you to discover his selection of French cheeses, presented in boxes designed exclusively for the hospitality industry.
