Jul 08 2024
With 3,000 years of high-quality cheese making tradition to fall back on, anyone trading in French cheese in their wholesale supply business can only blame themselves if they don’t make a success of it. There are over 1,000 different French cheeses in existence, so variation should be no problem at all, but maintaining the high standards of French cheese making heritage is the biggest challenge, and Sodiaal have developed their own internal standards to ensure we can supply the world’s best cheese all over the globe and showcase the huge variety of French cheese in all its glory.
Sodiaal has 12,541 farms under its umbrella, and so it requires a robust and effective quality system to ensure all these outlets work to the same standards, and at the same time, to uphold all the traditions of centuries of quality cheese making. The ‘Route du lait’ is a 78-step quality system which introduces strictly controlled traceability to its production processes, and also enables animal welfare and environmental sustainability to characterise the whole life-cycle of our dairy products, including cheese, butter, creams and milk.
We ensure that our fully audited farms follow this process to deliver supreme quality throughout the process, from the farms to the chefs using our products in the UK. So this takes into account:
- How we source our materials – our essential ingredients, including milk, are sourced from approved suppliers and Sodiaal farms.
- Our production processes – our research and development teams are constantly studying data from our shop-floor processes in order to improve the quality, consistency and reliability of the product.
- Our after sales services – we work with chefs and all clients on delicious recipes and recommendations to ensure our range of cheese products fulfils expectations and is continually expanding and improving.
Our Route du lait process is unique and pioneering, but our love and passion for cheese is where our expertise truly lies and where our knowledge sets us apart. French cheeses are rich in character and built on strong traditions and values, and we recognise that is the most important quality people come to expect. So we use cutting edge technology and unrivaled experience to ensure our cheeses match these standards and traditions.
French cheeses come in three main groups; soft (such as Brie and Coulommiers), hard (such as Comtè,Beaufort or Gruyere) and Blue (such as Roquefort, Bleu Saint Fleur or Bleu d’Auvergne). You can also add to this a huge range of cheeses with uniquely distinctive qualities such as Mont Brie Bleu (which fuses Brie and Blue cheese) Morbier (a two-layer cheese separated with a vein of ash), Tomme des Pyrenees (with its distinctive black rind) Emmental (easily recognisable with its many holes) and Munster (with its bright orange, pungent rind).
With such a wealth of quality cheeses, all following strict traditions from the many mountainous, natural regions of France, coupled with a pioneering, entrepreneurial spirit, Sodiaal can deliver cheese in any format direct to you. Our wholesale market expects cheese in bulk, rather than wheels, blocks and pre-packed portions, but we can deliver however you like it, and with our production processes covered by AOC and PDO certification, you know we can’t change or divert away from proud traditions and centuries of world-beating cheese making processes. So check out our range of quality French cheeses and contact us about your requirements today.
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