Regional cheese and cream stores Causses et Cévennes

Founded in 1927, Carles is a family business, and Delphine, the illustrious third-generation representative of the village's master craftswoman, is its guardian. Carles Roquefort is made entirely by hand, using time-honored know-how. The cubed curds are stirred to prepare the texture of the paste. The grains thus formed are then placed in molds, then sprinkled with the powder of a Roqueforti penicillium grown as in the past on rye and wheat bread. Then comes the draining and, finally, the maturing in natural caves. The latest addition, Roquefort Carles Elégance, is the softest and smoothest, a true delight.

Created in 1996, this cooperative now brings together 34 producers from Larzac and Lévézou. With 49 employees, they process 4.5 million litres of ewe's milk each year. Their cheeses, with their regional characteristics, are available in several ranges. Tommes, pérails and melting logs are sold directly in the cheese shop. You can also find brousse and encalat: a kind of camembert made from ewe's milk and named after the curd. We advise you to try the latest product: the white cheese made from whole sheep's milk.

Meat and cheese selected from the same breeders in the region for more than thirty years, homemade pork specialties and a wide range of prepared dishes: this is the winning and authentic recipe of the Martin butcher shop. Chantal, Gilbert Martin and their son work as closely as possible to tradition. They cut up the animals and transform them to give them the best: sausage in oil, ham, fricandeau, smoked duck breast, meat... Open: a cheese corner with small local goats. Every day, an appetizing delicatessen section, including the gratin, with potatoes, chestnuts and fricandeau, a must.

You can buy our raw-milk ewe's milk tomme directly from the cheese dairy, just a few hundred meters from the village square. At the back of the building, you'll be greeted with a big smile and sold this cheese, made and matured on site, after you've tasted it. Bronze medal winner at the Sud de France cheese competition, it's fruity, long on the palate and deserves a glass of red to accompany it, but you have to drive... It can be found in supermarkets along the A75.

Paul Alric created the Papillon brand in 1906, at the same time as his maturing cellar. Since then, the dairy has maintained a privileged relationship with ewe's milk producers, who supply it with quality milk. The Papillon cellar also has its own bread oven, where 300 loaves of rye bread are charred each year. Their moist crumb, sown with the famous Penicillium roqueforti, develops the fungus that gives Roquefort its distinctive taste and character. This natural alchemy is supervised by a master maturer.

Roquefort has been made in the Gabriel family since 1872. Today, Gabriel Coulet produces several cheeses among which La petite Cave, mellow, with a typical taste without being full-bodied; Le Castelviel, strong, powerful and generous, with an ivory color and an intense blue color; or the Tomme des Cazelles, melting in mouth. The house offers a free visit of its cellars with a film on the making of Roquefort cheese followed by a tasting. There is also a restaurant, La bergerie, where you can taste specialities based on Roquefort cheese.

The Roquefort Papillon and its maturing cellar was created by Paul Alric in 1906. Milk producers, master cheesemakers, ripeners, all work hand in hand to produce this famous delicacy. During your visit, you will go down into the coolness of the historical cellars to discover all the secrets of the production process, from renneting and curdling to cutting and stirring, molding, to maturing. You will also be offered a gourmet tasting before visiting the store to find the whole range of Roquefort and Pure Ewe cheeses.

For more than half a century, La Pastourelle Roquefort has owed its unique texture and taste to the work of a few dairy farmers. Gathered in a cooperative and being the only ones to have their own maturing cellar, they have given themselves the means to produce a high quality cheese. Some of the 75 producers invite you to visit their sheep farms, to understand the process of creating this Roquefort, but above all to share their passion. Enriching, interesting, and tasty. This Roquefort has a unique taste!

Founded in 1890 by Paulin Vernières, this family business has about thirty employees and two Roquefort cheese cellars where the maturing process takes place. Its annual production, even if it represents only a small part of the sales of Roquefort, has not prevented it from attacking international markets. It must be said that, endowed with a particular typicity, the Vernières Roquefort seduces by the smoothness of its paste and the colour of its veins. Today it is available in various forms of packaging: in cubes, in trays, in pots or by the slice.

The GAEC Le Lévéjac raises ewes on the Causse de Sauveterre. Their milk, intended for the industry of the roquefort until the end of the years 1990, is today transformed directly on the exploitation in the workshop of cheese making of the farmers. The GAEC du Lévéjac elaborates its pure ewe's milk cheese by dint of its craft, according to ancestral methods, with a lot of love. Its Lévéjac with a bloomy rind protects a soft paste, with an ideal soft texture. It is on sale at the farm (by appointment) and in many local shops.