Juscht Swiss Cheese Aged by Gourmino

Jùscht cheese is not only made on a mountain, it is also aged inside a mountain.

Urs Leuenberger’s mountain dairy is nestled in the undulating Gantrisch region between Bern, Fribourg, and Thun in Swirtzerland. Here, together with his team, he crafts Le Gruyère AOP and the distinctive "Jùscht" cheese, yielding around 6-7 wheels daily. The proximity of his dairy farmers, all within a kilometer's reach, allows him to witness cows grazing right from the cheese dairy.

The mountain dairy in Vorderfultigen has always labeled their specialty as "Eifach en Jùschte" - an expression unique to the Seisler dialect in the German-speaking Fribourg canton. "Jùschte" signifies "the just" - a term that denotes a virtuous person in this locality or the rightness and goodness of a thing. "Simply a good one" is the basic translation of Juscht. It's a fitting name for their cheese masterpiece.

Despite its youthful nature, Jùscht boasts a profound, yet refreshingly milky flavor, rich and balanced with notes of cereal milk and waffles. It's an indulgent delight that leaves you craving more after just one taste. A perfect cheese for breakfast and snacks.

The cheeses, meticulously crafted at the Vorderfultigen mountain dairy, are nurtured on-site for a month before transferring to Gourmino's mountain cave in Reichenbach military bunkers in Bernese Oberland. Here, deep inside the mountain, nature offers Gourmino the perfect climate for cheese affinage – high humidity and low, cool, constant temperatures. Affineurs attend to the Jùscht wheels, bathing them in saltwater twice weekly. The natural mountain environment, maintaining approximately 12°C temperature and 93% humidity, offers an ideal atmosphere for maturing Juscht. After all, nothing quite compares to the perfection of nature.

• Made from unpasteurized cow’s milk.

• We cut and wrap this cheese by hand from a 14 lb wheel.