🧀 Cambozola

Cambozola is a German brand of soft cheese with blue noble cultures (Edelpilzkulturen), made by the family company Käserei Champignon Hofmeister GmbH & Co. KG.

According to the producer, master cheesemakers in Kempten in the Allgäu created it in 1980, aiming to combine creamy mildness with a refined, fine spiciness.

The maker grew from individual cheese dairies into a family group with four plants in Bavaria and Saxony. According to the Cambozola brand page, the cheese is chosen in over forty countries.

The producer says the noble cultures in the milk form a fine blue marbling in the paste during ripening, and that Cambozola Classic is in the double-cream fat category (Doppelrahmstufe). Through natural ripening, all cheeses made at the company have a lactose content always below 0.1 g per 100 g; the milk, processing aids and materials are GMO-free. Microbial rennet is used, so all variants suit vegetarians.

The range has three variants: Cambozola Classic (which has its own page), Balance and Finesse with a garlic note. The cheese is sold at the cheese counter by weight and pre-packed from the chiller cabinet (Classic in 150 g and 400 g).