Swiss Mountain Milk Cheese
Life in the mountains means hard work in the outdoors come rain or sun shine, working closely and honestly together and living in harmony with animals and the environment.
Nutritious raw mountain milk
The farmers who produce the milk for our cheese have lived in these mountains for centuries. Fresh grass, rich herbs and wild mountain flowers grow at these high altitudes. Only the hardiest and most resilient plants thrive in these conditions. Eaten by the cows, the essential nutrients of the herbs are preserved in the milk. This extremely rich and highest-quality raw mountain milk gives our Mountain Milk Cheese its unique tangy, pure and authentic flavor. It also contains important beneficial nutrients – even more so than regular milk.
Local tradition with the highest quality
Just like their ancestors, our milk farmers produce this premium mountain milk according to strict quality standards. Our cheesemakers collect the farm fresh raw mountain milk daily and immediately start the cheese production to preserve the high value of the milk in the cheese. The old recipes are well guarded and handed down from generation to generation. After the artisanal production our cheese makers patiently cure the cheese and allow it to mature until every wheel of cheese has ripened to the peak of its flavor using only traditional artisanal techniques. The result is cheese with character and a punchy flavor that is authentic and natural. Our Swiss Mountain Milk Cheese – naturally healthy and unique.
Our Swiss Mountain Milk Cheese –
an excellent addition to your range
There are six exquisite Mountain Milk Cheeses in the Lustenberger & Dürst range: Fior delle Alpi, Jura Montagne, Urschwyzer, Lustenberger 1862 creamy and extra tangy, Mountain Emmentaler AOP and Mountain Raclette. Give your cheese range the distinctive flavor of the Swiss mountains: a bold character, with a powerful and tangy taste, nutritious, containing no artificial additives, and lactose as well as gluten free – an excellent addition to your assortment.
Strong – but tender at heart
Urschwyzer
Aromatic and herbal, pure and natural, tangy yet delicate – that’s our Urschwyzer cheese made from Swiss mountain milk. Our Urschwyzer is ripened to the peak of its flavor for at least six months using traditional maturing methods, resulting in a uniquely tangy yet delicate cheese – which has already become a legend in its own right.
tangy yet delicate
6 months maturation
Made from pure Swiss mountain milk
Lustenberger 1862
creamy and extra-tangy
Our creamy and extra-tangy Lustenberger 1862 is a distinctive mountain cheese. With a silky, melt-in-your-mouth texture and a creamy, extra-tangy taste, it unites powerful flavors from the the wild environs of the local mountains with the fresh, delicate playfulness of the verdant valley.
creamy and extra-tangyg
5 months maturation
Jewel of the Swiss mountains
Fior delle Alpi
Clean air, rich soils with powerful herbs, mountain milk from pure nature and honest artisanry in the small mountain cheese dairy: Fior delle Alpi is a jewel of the Swiss mountains, hidden in a black rind. Spicy and aged with fine salt crystals that melt in your mouth.
tangy-ripe
12 months maturation
The character, it comes from the wild herbs of the high-moor
Jura Montagne
A bitter wind skims over the untamed, rugged landscape with remote high moors, craggy rocks, deep green forests and powerful herbs. The natural mountain milk gives the wild aromatic Jura Montagne its unadulterated taste with sweet flavors of almonds and vanilla.
wild-spicy
10 months maturation
Raclette from the Swiss mountains
Mountain Milk
Raclette
Cows living high up in the mountains enjoy a diet of fresh grass, aromatic herbs and wild mountain flowers. This variety is what gives our Mountain Milk Raclette its powerful, fragrant taste. This delicately creamy cheese is an absolute must for raclette connoisseurs.
powerful and aromatic
2.5 months maturation
Healthy by nature™ & uniquely delicious
Mountain Milk
Emmentaler AOP
The full-bodied, aromatic flavor and unmistakable nutty notes of Emmentaler meet the varied, wild elements of the Swiss mountain landscape. This cheese owes its powerful flavor to eight long months of ripening. All of this combines to make our Mountain Milk Emmentaler AOP uniquely delicious.
balanced yet tangy
8 months maturation
Nutritious Swiss mountain milk
The Swiss mountains are home to fresh grass, aromatic herbs and wild mountain flowers. Thanks to this rich natural gift, not only does our Mountain Milk Cheese have an unmistakably rich, beautifully tangy flavor, but it also supports your health, as it contains essential nutrients.
What makes Mountain Milk Cheese so healthy?
In mountainous areas, the cows' diet contains considerably more grass that in lower-lying areas. That is why mountain milk has been proven to contain lower levels of saturated fats and higher levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially omega-3. The most common type of omega-3 fatty acid found in the milk is linoleic acid.
Healthy omega-3 fatty acids
Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid and it is vital for our bodies. Our bodies cannot produce essential fatty acids, so we need to get them from our diet. Omega-3 is crucial for our health, as it plays a vital role in our metabolism.
It is the Swiss mountain milk that gives our Swiss Mountain Milk Cheese its unique, authentic flavor and helps to support your health.
Nutritious Swiss mountain herbs
The crucial difference in our raw mountain milk
Swiss mountain milk is like no other – not only in its taste, but also its health benefits. It has been proven again that the rich herbs that grow in the harsh mountain environment positively impact the concentration of fatty acids in the milk. These plants, which give our Swiss mountain milk its unique taste, improve the animals' fodder intake and are extremely nutritious.
Unique, healthy and easily digestible
Our raw Swiss mountain milk contains golden hawksbeard (Crepis biennis) and bristly hawkbit (Leontodon hispidus), caraway (Carum carvi) and various plantains (Plantago lanceolata, atrata and alpina) and plants in the Papilionoideae family, such as birdsfoot deervetch (Lotus corniculatus) and red clover (Trifolium pratense), among other plants.
These nutritious mountain herbs are the crucial difference in the diet of our mountain cows. This is why the mountain cheese made from the raw milk is so unique, healthy and easily digestible.
LeSuperbe Berg-Gütesiegel
Käse aus den Schweizer Bergen ist einzigartig und unverkennbar. Mit unserem exklusiven LeSuperbe Berg-Gütesiegel garantieren wir dafür, dass unser Käse aus reiner Schweizer Bergmilch besteht und direkt vor Ort im Berggebiet handwerklich nach altem Rezept verkäst wird.
Nur die besten Käselaibe werden von uns ausgewählt und in unseren Ausreifekellern nach traditioneller Ausreifemethode so lange ausgereift, bis jeder Käse seinen vollen Geschmack entwickelt hat. Nur Bergmilchkäse, der unseren höchsten Ansprüchen genügt, versehen wir mit unserem Berg-Gütesiegel.
Zertifiziertes Schweizer Bergprodukt
Das offizielle Zeichen für Bergprodukte garantiert die Herkunft des Erzeugnisses aus dem Berggebiet und steht für den offiziellen Schutz dieser Produkte. Um die Bezeichnung Bergprodukt tragen zu dürfen, müssen die Rohstoffe aus dem Berggebiet stammen und im Berggebiet, verarbeitet werden. Sowohl die Milcherzeugung als auch die Verkäsung muss im Berggebiet erfolgen.
Ein Produkt darf den Namen «Schweizer Bergprodukt» nur dann tragen, wenn die für seine Herstellung verwendeten Rohstoffe aus der Bergregion stammen. Die offizielle Kennzeichnung «Berg» garantiert die Herkunft der im Berggebiet gewonnenen Produkte. Jeder Milchlieferant und jede Käserei ist zertifziert, kontrolliert und garantiert für Echtheit. Alle Schweizer Bergmilchkäse von LeSuperbe entsprechen diesem Standard.
LeSuperbe – Mountain Quality Seal
Our exclusive LeSuperbe Mountain Quality Seal guarantees that our cheese comes from pure Swiss mountain milk and that it is handcrafted locally in the mountain region following a traditional recipe and only following artisanal production methods.
We select only the best cheese wheels and mature them in our cellars using a traditional affinage method until each wheel ripens to the perfection of its flavor. We only grant our Mountain Quality Seal to Mountain Milk Cheese that complies with our highest standards.
Certified Schweizer Bergprodukt
(Swiss mountain product)
The official, governmental label for mountain products guarantees that the product originates from the mountain region and represents the official protection of these products.
To earn the label "Bergprodukt" (mountain product), the raw materials must be sourced from the mountain region and processed in the mountain region, including the neighboring municipalities. This means that the milk and cheese both need to be produced in the mountain region. Every milk supplier and every cheese dairy is certified, inspected and its authenticity is guaranteed. All of LeSuperbe's Swiss mountain cheeses comply with this standard.
The fine art of Swiss cheesemaking since 1862
The right partner at your side
Established in 1862, Lustenberger & Dürst has a long tradition as one of the oldest cheese affineur in Switzerland. We produce all-natural and exquisite cheese packed with flavor. Our secret? All of our cheeses have the gifts of nature, are handcrafted locally, carefully selected and matured in the traditional way.
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Whether directly in the Kulinarium, our “cheese store”, in regional and national sales points or around the globe – LeSuperbe cheese art will delight you any time and any place!