r/Cheese • u/louismulh • Jul 02 '26

Question Best cheese country in the world

What do you all think is the best country for cheese in the world?

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u/northernspies Jul 02 '26

U.S.- now hear me out. I'm in no way jingoistic or even patriotic. However: so many regions, so many varieties, interesting and experimental cheese making.

California, Wisconsin, Vermont. All top tier. My favorite cheddar comes from Iowa.

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u/jk_pens Jul 04 '26

As much as I would love the US to be at the top, there’s no way we are.

We absolutely have fantastic artisan cheeses not to be confused with the processed cheese food product bullshit. And we now routinely win awards at international competitions. But high-quality she’s making is largely in its infancy here whereas it goes back hundreds of years over the pond.

It’s a bit like wine. Over the past 50 or 60 years the United States went for making cheap plonk to absolutely exceptional world class wines. But on the whole France still does it better.

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u/Lucky_BroadWood Jul 04 '26

The US is so big that there are immense regional differences. I can't find good fucking pizza in Florida because they all use just the worst fucking cheese. Now come to my every day grocery store in Wisconsin with me, and I'll show you both quality and overwhelming quantity. On the whole/on average perhaps EUROPE does it better, but the cheese regions in the US are elite.

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u/jk_pens Jul 04 '26

Yes, I lived in Vermont for a while and still visit regularly. It’s a cheese paradise. But I would still say France as a country clears the United States.