Regional cheese and cream stores Poitou-Charentes

The French and cheese, it's a true love story! And if you're looking for quality products, don't hesitate to visit Grégory Giraudon. This artisan (world vice-champion in 2021) welcomes you to his store, where you'll find a wide range of cheeses, as well as charcuterie, wine and delicatessen products. Soft cheeses with bloomy rinds, pressed cheeses... there's something for everyone! Tasting evenings are organized - even "cheese quizzes" - and you can take away platters richly garnished with quality products.

This 85-hectare farm is run by Emmanuelle and her cousin Arnaud, who raise 160 dairy goats. These affectionate, curious and fragile animals live at the goat farm all year round, in a bright, airy and spacious space. You can watch them being milked every evening at 5.30pm. Fed exclusively with forage grown on the farm (hay, alfalfa, clover), the goats give good milk that makes good cheeses, sold at all stages of ripening: fresh cheeses with faisselle, logs, chabichous, crottins, tomme, goat-box.

The old-fashioned way! It is with her truck that Melanie goes from market to market and from house to house delivering her good raw and organic cow milk! The fifty cows are fed in the family farm with the fodder from the farm. In our containers or in the farm's returnable bottles or buckets, we recover the milk from the day's milking, to be drunk raw or incorporated into our culinary preparations. We rediscover its taste, we rediscover its flavours.

Come and take a tour of the tasty, playful world of La Maison des fromages de chèvre. On the program: an interactive exhibition devoted to the history and production of goat cheese in Poitou, France's ^leading region in this field. A gourmet moment to be extended by a workshop to refine your cheese knowledge, taste and try your hand at making them. Inside, the store sells cheeses from the Sèvres et Belle cooperative, cosmetics and other local products.

The place to be for cheese lovers. Sylvie, her team and 150 goats welcome you to the farm. Feel free to visit the goat farm (prefer milking time - 5pm-5.30pm) and fill your baskets with delicious goat cheeses. You'll find the great classics, as well as originals such as hazelnut-flavored fromage fleuri, marbré and bleu de chèvre, and creamy specialties like flam'bics. From the store, you can observe the cheese dairy. Here, we love to pass on our knowledge and delight you. Camping-carists, the farm opens its doors to you.

It's not only goats that smile! Just taste Sabrina's cheeses and you'll have a smile on your face. It's true that this enthusiast always offers a warm welcome, whether in the store or at the market. Each cheese is handcrafted according to traditional methods: raw cow's milk, goat's milk, tomme... there's something for everyone! You can also order made-to-measure cheese platters for a successful evening. You can also order on the website.

Poitevins will tell you: "For cheeses, go to Jérémie Chosson! For you, the artisan creamer-cheesemaker selects the cream of the cream. In his pretty store where everything is elegantly designed, each cheese, perfectly matured, will be described to you with love. You will find the local ones, all the classics, but also the eccentric ones. Tastes that will make a beefy effect on your plate. Try also the gourmet preparations: gougères, panna cotta, box raclette...

The Joly family's hundred or so cows are pampered daily on this family farm. 446,000 liters of milk are transformed into delicious organic products. Of course, there's the milk, the crème fraîche and the butter, but what the farm is best known for are its delicious raw-milk cheeses and, above all, its rice pudding and chocolate yoghurts. These products can be found at markets, farmers' stores, the farm store and at their big open day on the first Sunday in June.

Faisselle, crottin, brique, mothais, pyramide, bûche... All the goat cheeses made on this eco-construction farm are organic! Emmanuelle and Mathias work hard, taking good care of their animals, their goats from the Poitou region, to create quality cheeses that vary in taste and shape. Passionate about their business, they make it a point of honor to respect the environment and nature, and offer "Farm Knowledge Stays", on request, to share their profession as farmers. Enjoy your visit!

The Sèvre-et-Belle dairy has been producing pasteurized and raw goat's milk butters and cheeses since 1983. These products regularly win awards and are distributed worldwide. Based on a number of fundamental principles, the company offers a range of interesting products in both cheese and butter (Baratte d'or, Baratte du crémier...). Don't hesitate to visit the cooperative's boutique!

Founded in Surgères since 1936, the G.L.A.C has a whole range of dairies spread over department of the Grand west. Milk collections (goat and cow) are each year in hundreds of millions of litres, and the specialties of the cheese show the wealth of the land. There is a range of Butters butters, the finesse and aroma of which have been renowned. Butter "Charentes-Poitou" is the first in France to have benefited from the Appellation of Origin Controlled (1979). The Highest flower is a cow with a hard crust that will make your happiness in rotting, at the corner of the fire. The G.L.A.C products are sold in large area, and perhaps you have already seen goats in Saint-Loup-sur-Thouet or Bougon, Mottin Charentais or the Euro-Monk pie. A speciality of the department not to be missed: fromagé meal, which can be made with goat milk or cow's milk. With its characteristic black crust, the meal is eaten fresh, like a yogurt cake.

This little store sells Petitsigne cheeses, made a few kilometers away in Saint-Sauveur. In Bellevue, Christelle and Patrice run the cheese dairy. Goat's and cow's milk are processed on site into delicious cheeses. Here, everything is done by hand, with molding by ladle or by hand to produce logs, pyramids, chabis, faisselles, cendrés, herb cheeses... The store also sells a wide range of local products (honey, artisan apple juice, cookies, wine...)... what a delight!

Le Petit Futé still loves this cheese shop, which it discovered almost 6 years ago in an alleyway near Les Halles. L'Epicurium hasn't strayed far, having chosen a pretty cobbled street in the heart of the town center to the delight of epicureans. Don't expect to find yet another clothing store here, but a cheese shop that bon vivants frequent assiduously. It's impossible not to find a cheese to your taste, with some 200 references, from croûtes fleuries (camembert), to cow's and ewe's tommes, via delicious local goat's cheeses (Le Chabichou AOP, Le Mothais sur feuille, La Bonde de Gâtine) and the house specialty, truffle brie, as well as the new kid on the block, fine hazelnut camembert. And while you're waiting for Fred or Stephane to prepare your take-away tray, you can enjoy a platter of selected cheeses accompanied by a glass of wine. More than just a store, it's a friendly place that's well worth a visit!

This is a family farm of 80 alpine goats with seasonal grazing. The Albert family's land and farm are certified organic. The producers transform their goat's milk into cheeses - you can find chabis, faisselles, p'tits ronds, mothais, logs, pyramids, tommes... And if you get lost, they'll be able to give you good advice on how to choose between all the flavours! Note that this farm is located on the road to Chabichou and that it also has pigs that roam in the open air as well as a farmyard.

La Source Bleue Cave is a wine cellar. It offers a meticulous selection of wines, beers and spirits, as well as a showcase of fine cheeses and a selection of teas and coffees. Products can be tasted on site or taken away. Tasting evenings are also organized on a regular basis. For businesses, Source Bleue Cave offers on-site dining, takeaway and delivery services.

The art and craft of artisan goat cheese. Using traditional methods, particularly in terms of feeding, this Saanen farm presents farmhouse cheeses with a taste of yesteryear, for tasting and shopping at the farm. Friendly events, such as mini-farmers' markets, are organized throughout the year. On the second Saturday of the month, around the baker's oven, where a delicious batch of bread awaits you. Would you like some fresh bread on a hot slice of toast?

The Fourme de Vau cheese dairy is located in the town of Brillac.

This association was created in 1893 as a result of the crisis of the phylloxera which ravaged much of the vineyard. Its aim is to regroup cooperative dairies in the region and promote dairy products. Today, Charentes-Poitou butter, recognised Appellation of origin in 1979 is one of the region's flagship products such as Marenne-Oléron oysters, Cognac, Pineau…

A friendly farm with 250 goats (Alpine and Saanen), also listed on the Route des Fromages de Chèvre de Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Here, you can do all your dairy shopping, including the finest artisanal Poitou cheeses: mothais sur feuille, crottin, pavé cendré, tomme, faisselles and bottled milk. For 3 euros, you can meet the dairy's endearing dairymen, visit the cheese dairy, take part in a tasting session and even take part in milking. Cheeses available for direct sale, or at the Saint-Maixent market (Saturday).

To be sure of finding a quality cheese, don't hesitate to head for Xavier Ropert's truck. This enthusiast will guide you in your choice and help you select the cheese you like best. You'll find him at various markets in La Rochelle: La Pallice on Sunday mornings, Port Neuf on Thursdays and at his L'Houmeau premises on Friday mornings. The welcome is warm, and the selection varied, with, among other things, speciality cheeses made with truffles (homemade). Xavier and his wife focus above all on quality, and also offer platters. You can order on the website for delivery, or pick up your order at the La Rochelle market.