La Tomme d’Elles is an artisanal cheese with a white-spotted brownish rind. It has a beige paste boasting floral aromas and a rather pronounced fruit and herb taste.

La Tomme d’Elles is a tribute to women in general… and to the cheesemaker’s mother and mother-in-law in particular. Originally the cheese’s label was a montage of two photos from 1945 and 1965 featuring these two ladies at age 20.

Cheesemaker

Founded in 1994, Maison d’affinage Maurice Dufour is one of the first artisanal cheese dairies in Québec. Trained as an agronomist, Maurice Dufour was looking for a way to stay in his native Charlevoix region while earning a living. After a trip to Franche-Comté, France, where he discovered the fruitières — cooperatives for cheese production and processing — he partnered with Laiterie de Charlevoix to create Migneron de Charlevoix. To this day, the wheels are made at the Laiterie and then aged at the Maison d’affinage.