Langres
Historic French cheese with a unique truncated shape. Depression in the centre designed to hold Champagne or marc.
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Product Details
The aroma of Langres is strong, and the texture is smooth and firm. It has a flavour that is rich and full with a spicy tang.
Langres is a speciality cheese made in small dairies in the Champagne region and possibly dates back to the time of the Merovingian kings who reigned from about 500 -700AD.
The dip in the top of the truncated cheese is widely used as a miniature reservoir for local speciality alcohols, such as Champagne, brandy, kirsch or marc, and can differ according to the taste of the individual cheesemaker.
Although Langres became well known and widely appreciated in the middle of the 18th century. Its name comes from the principal town which commercialised the cheese, north east of Dijon in the Haute Marne region. With time, Langres became the object of a flourishing market and traders bought the cheese fresh from the farmers and matured it themselves, exporting it to Paris or Geneva.
In its original production, Langres was made simply, with rennet being added to the milk when it was still tepid and then left to curdle in stoneware pots. Once curdled, the cheese was formed and drained in terracotta moulds where they formed their distinctive truncated shape. The cheese were taken out of the moulds and left to dry on plane tree leaves in wicker cages, where the cheeses were never turned, but left until the natural moulds formed colours on the rind.
These days, the cheese is made in the region of Bassigny, mostly by small dairies as opposed to the traditional farms. It is wrapped in marked paper instead of plane leaves, but is still highly regarded in gastronomic terms. 
In 1991, the cheese became protected, and now has a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) as an indication that the cheese is produced using an ancestral savoir-faire in a specific region.
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Cheese delivery
FREE UK* Delivery when you spend over £40
Fresh, Overnight UK Cheese Delivery
Overnight Cheese Delivery: Our UK delivery charge is £6.95 for UK* orders under £40. Delivery for orders over £40 is free.
*Please note Free UK Delivery is only valid for deliveries to the UK mainland and also excludes deliveries to the Scottish Highlands. We do not currently deliver to Northern Ireland and we do not deliver to international locations outside of the UK.
Named day deliveries on all orders: You can select a delivery date on Tuesday - Saturday when you go to checkout. (Please note. a surcharge of £10 applies to Saturday deliveries) .
Chilled overnight cheese delivery: All of our cheese parcels are cooled with re-usable ice packs and insulated with recyclable packaging. We always use an overnight delivery service for UK mainland orders to ensure that your cheese arrives with you in fine condition.
Hand cut & hand wrapped: Our cheese for online orders is hand cut to order and hand wrapped in Paxton & Whitfield wax paper by our expert cheesemongers. Your cheese will have approximately 12 days shelf life on them from the date of despatch.
Delivery tracking & notifications: Please provide your mobile phone number or email address and you will receive tracking details and anticipated delivery times. On the day that your order is despatched, you will recieve a notification that your delivery is on its way and an anticipated 1 hour delivery time slot.
Carbon-neutral delivery: Our delivery partners at DPD commit to make every parcel they deliver carbon neutral. They measure their CO2 emissions, strive to reduce them, and offset the remaining emissions.
No signature required: You may use the "Delivery Instructions" in the ordering process to provide succinct instructions such as "leave in the garage if out" (choose a cool place) if the recipient is out. The driver is instructed to leave your parcel somewhere safe if you are out to ensure that the cheese is not delayed or held for too long in a warehouse. We regret we cannot accept responsibility for the condition of the goods or non-receipt if goods are not signed for.
UK Highlands & Islands Delivery
There are some places we simply can't get to in under a day and cost more for delivery. If you live in the UK Highlands or Islands, or in a particularly remote location then an additional delivery charge and longer delivery time may apply. You will be notified of any additional charge when you go to checkout.
Click & Collect
If you would prefer to avoid the queues, rather not wait for delivery or avoid delivery cost then try our FREE order online Click & Collect service.
Simply order on line one day and collect your purchases the next day from your chosen shop. This service is available at all four Paxton & Whitfield shops in Jermyn Street, London; Cale Street, London and Bath.
This service is only available for the items that are listed on our web-site. If you want to place an order for products that are not included on the web-site please call the shop and place a telephone order for the entirety of your order directly with them on the phone. See Visit Our Shops for contact details and maps of each shop. Please note that we are unable to process orders that include items for collection from one of the shops as well as items for delivery. If you want to split your purchase please place two separate orders – one for collection and one for delivery.
Place and pay for your order online
Orders placed before 5pm are available for collection at your chosen shop after 11am the next day that the shop is open. (Pick ups not available Sundays and Bank Holidays).
Orders placed after 5pm are available for collection at your chosen shop after 2pm the next day that the shop is open. (Pick ups not available Sundays and Bank Holidays).
If you do not want to pick up your goods the following day, please specify in the comments box of the Order Form the day and approximate time (ie morning before 1pm/afternoon after 12 noon) that you want to collect the goods. Please note that 2 full working days are required for any orders which include a Ham.
Pickup In Store
Maps and opening times of our shops are available at Visit Our Shops. Details of the shop that you have chosen to collect from will be shown on your receipt.
Please give a contact number so that we can call you if there are any issues with your order.
On arrival at the Shop please make your way to the counter where a sales assistant will be able to collect your purchases. At particularly busy times, for example, just before Christmas please make your way to the Collection Point which will be clearly identifiable.
To ensure we are handing over your purchase to the correct person, please bring with you a copy of your order receipt email or, at a minimum, your order number. Goods will not be released without this information.
Your order will be available for collection for 24 hours. If you are unable to collect it within that time, please contact the shop from where you were meant to be collecting your goods (see Visit Our Shops) to rearrange collection.
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