The same as Puligny-Saint-Pierre, this is a decapitated pyramid of soft, fine-textured, moist goat’s milk cheese with a rind of natural mould and a complex flavour. It may have a coating of charcoal. It is said that Napoleon, on returning from the Battle of the Nile, where he was defeated by Nelson, saw the more traditional pyramid of a Puligny-Saint-Pierre cheese which, reminding him of the Pyramids and his defeat, he promptly truncated with his sword, resulting in this Valençay cheese. The Cambridge Cheese Company have now recreated the Puligny-Saint-Pierre, giving it the name 'Nelson's Glory.
A small, pyramid-shaped goat's milk cheese with light smell and flavour made on farms in Berry and dusted with charcoal.
Valrhona was created in 1924 by a pastry chef from the Rhône Valley, from which it gained its name. It is now based at Tain L'Hermitage in Hermitage, now producing good quality chocolate all around the world. Valrhona is currently the only company in the world that produces vintage chocolate made from beans of a single year's harvest from a specific plantation.
