How to Bake Mont d’Or with White Wine

H o w t o B a k e M o n t d ’ O r w i t h W h i t e W i n e

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Melted Mont d’Or in its green-striped box with a tilted spoon, potatoes, bread and a glass of white wine
Lifestyle visual — © VAVIN

When you want a generous dinner without spending the whole evening in the kitchen, baked Mont d’Or is hard to beat. Add a little white wine to the cheese, let it melt in its wooden box, then share it with potatoes and good bread. Once you have the cheese, the other ingredients are easy to find in Taiwan.

4 people10 min prep25 min bakingEasy recipe

Mont d’Or AOP comes from the Haut-Doubs in Franche-Comté. The traditional “boîte chaude” uses a white wine from the Jura. At VAVIN, we suggest our Domaine Viticole de la Ville de Colmar Riesling White 2024: a dry white whose freshness contrasts with the cheese’s creamy texture. It is not a same-region pairing, but it lets you cook and serve from one bottle.

Ingredients for four

  • 1 Mont d’Or AOP, approximately 500 g;
  • 5 cl of dry Colmar Riesling;
  • 800 g to 1 kg of small potatoes;
  • 1 baguette or loaf of country bread;
  • green salad, optional, for a fresh contrast.

Allow about 10 minutes to prepare the cheese and 25 minutes to bake it. You can cook the potatoes while the oven heats.

How to make it

  1. Cook the potatoes. Wash them and simmer them with their skins on until a knife slides through easily. Drain and keep warm.
  2. Prepare the cheese. Heat the oven to 220 °C. Remove any film, labels or outer packaging. Take the lid off the wooden box and place it beneath the box, as in the Mont d’Or producers’ recipe. Set it on a baking tray.
  3. Add the wine. Make a small hollow in the centre of the cheese with a spoon and pour in 5 cl of Riesling.
  4. Bake for about 25 minutes. The cheese should be fully molten and lightly golden on top. Watch it towards the end: the exact time depends on your oven and the size of the cheese.
  5. Serve immediately. Bring the box to the table on a heatproof board. Spoon the cheese over potatoes or dip in a piece of bread.

The box and cheese will be very hot. Use oven gloves and protect delicate tabletops.

An easy dinner to share at home

The authentic Mont d’Or product in its original green-striped box, offered at VAVIN
VAVIN product photograph — © VAVIN

There is no need to hunt down a hard-to-find French sausage or cured meat. Potatoes, bread and perhaps a green salad already make a convivial dinner around the Mont d’Or. The cheese is available in the VAVIN shop; ask our team for the Mont d’Or and Colmar Riesling to make your own “boîte chaude”.

Product availability may change. Drink responsibly. Do not drink and drive. Alcohol sales to anyone under 18 are prohibited.

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