Here is more than a million years, the nature transformed the Mountain of Combalou into an unique(only) network of perfectly ventilated subterranean galleries, which one names(appoints) fleurines.

In the course of century the men(people) fitted out there cellars and here is hundred years when was born here the most magnificent of cheeses, the Roquefort butterfly.

It is in the twilight and the coolness that the curds sowed by " Penicillium Roqueforti " is transformed slowly into Roquefort.


Since 1906, Butterfly produces a Roquefort the secret of which lives(lies) in the quality of its mold which develops in cooked round loaves of rye bread in the campfire during the new moon.


The free visits will make for you travel in the heart of a secret of gourmets which confides bit by bit gourmands.
You will go down(fall) in the labyrinth of cellars together with a hostess. You will discover it all the trainings of refining of the Roquefort Butterfly.

You remoterez the time by viewing the film which tells and tells the history of this cheese of legends and at the end of visit your papilles will flicker at the time of the free tasting of the Roquefort butterfly.

Having lasted the visit : 45 mn at 1 o'clock and blow on the spot of Roquefort Butterfly.

Credit text photo: Roquefort "Butterfly"