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Bleu Bénédictin

Canadian blue cheese

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ4926393 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bleu Bénédictin (French pronunciation: [blø benediktɛ̃]) is a Canadian blue cheese made by the monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac, Quebec.

The cheese is a semi-soft, whole milk blue cheese deeply veined with the Roquefort penicillium mold. A wheel of Bénédictin weighs 2 kg (4.4 lb) and has a whitish-grey coating.

The aroma of the cheese is reminiscent of mushrooms and has a creamy, delicately salted flavour. The middle of the cheese wheel is especially creamy.

See also

List of cheeses

References

External links

Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac (in French)

Bleu Bénédictin entry on the Canadian Cheese Encyclopedia.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bleu Bénédictin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.