SEVRE ET BELLE--100 Years Old!
SEVRE ET BELLE was founded back in 1893, a small cooperative in the village of Celles-sur-Belle in the West of France.
That should tell you something about the extent to which its history reflects farming traditions and industrial advances.
Throughout the generations, SEVRE ET BELLE has changed and adapted, creating products of consistently exquisite taste.
With an unfaltering dedication to quality and an ever-greater commitment to hygiene.
Created and run by local people, it has remained faithful to tradition while constantly adapting to advances in technology.
In France today, SEVRE ET BELLE is recognised as a successful company: in its pursuit of excellence, it has deliberately restricted itself to a reasonable size.
Its name transcends national boundaries, and its innovation in soft goat cheese, for example, as well as in more traditional products, has allowed it to enter the wider European market.

A Land of Open Space
80% of French goat cheese production comes from the Poitou-Charentes region on the French Atlantic coast.
It is hardly surprising then that Deux-Sèvres, the home of French goat products, lies in the very heart of this region.
Looking out over the Atlantic, at the meeting point of North and South where flat open country embraces the water, Deux-Sèvres has always stayed with tradition, turning inheritance into advantage.

Finest Dairy Tradition
As in the rest of France, phylloxera destroyed all the original nineteenth-century vine stocks. Thus, cattle and goat rearing and dairy production naturally took over.
The reputation of Deux-Sèvres cheeses soon became widely known, particularly goat's-milk cheese. The mainly farm-based production methods remained the preserve of artisan cheese makers; industrial production began in 1907.

This "Poor Man's Cow", with its milk so rich...
More than a thousand years have passed since goats were first introduced to France during the Arab invasions. Neglected to begin with, goat rearing gradually became more widespread until finally reaching the full extent it enjoys today. In Deux-Sèvres, the goat population is strong and healthy, free from any epidemic. Strict and regular monitoring provides an absolute guarantee of perfect hygiene in all live goat's-milk products.