What is the difference between gorgonzola and bleu cheese?
well Gorgonzola (DOC) is a bleu cheese, but not all bleu is Gorgonzola.Gorgonzola can only come from the Lombardy region of Italy, and is made from only cows milk.blue cheese is a open, none protected term that can describe any cheese that has blue or grey mold in the curd in streaks or pockets. most of the famous blues how ever like Gorgonzola(DOC), Roquefort(AOC),Stilton(AOC) etc are all protected by Aoc is appellation d’origion controlee, Doc is Denominazion di origine controllata and all that means is in order to be call Gorgonzola it has to be made in a certain area with a set type of milk from a specific breed of animal and aged a certain way if any one of the steps is not fallowed it can’t be called Gorgonzola even if it looks and tastes like it.
