Chaumes

Then one round of cheese—something basic like Brie, or my favorite, Nevat, a soft goat cheese from Spain, or a semi-soft French cheese called Chaumes that is sold in grocery stores—is always in the fridge.

The Art and Craft of Entertaining Kimberly Kennedy 2005

Then one round of cheese—something basic like Brie, or my favorite, Nevat, a soft goat cheese from Spain, or a semi-soft French cheese called Chaumes that is sold in grocery stores—is always in the fridge.

The Art and Craft of Entertaining Kimberly Kennedy 2005

"Chaumes" lay at the entrance of a village whose ancient church we saw in the distance.

The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886

After crossing the river we turned off the high-road and took an unfrequented way that led through a region called "Chaumes," a very beautiful place at that time but horribly profaned to-day.

The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886

This "Chaumes" was a sort of table-land composed of a single stone, and this rock, which undulated slightly, was covered with a carpet of short, dry fragrant plants that snapped under our feet; and a whole world of tiny gayly-colored butterflies and tinier moths fluttered among the rare and delicate flowers growing there.

The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886

Only riesling can give the same breathtaking degree of complexity and profundity at such a wide variety of sweetness levels, from bone-dry Savennières or Vouvray Sec, all the way up to dizzyingly magical bottles of sweet dessert wines from Montlouis, Vouvray, Quartes de Chaumes or Bonnezeaux.

Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

It was paired with a sweet wine from the northern Loire, a 2004 Quarts de Chaumes, Domaine des Baumard, in which Mr. Turgeman detected the scent of marzipan, among other things.

A Stinky Job, but... 2012

If it says Coteaux du Layon on the label (or, better still, one of the sub-regions Chaume, Quarts de Chaumes or Bonnezeaux) you can buy with confidence: making sweet wine is such a vexed business that only the obsessives bother to do it.

Oops, I Sipped It Again… 2009

If it says Coteaux du Layon on the label (or, better still, one of the sub-regions Chaume, Quarts de Chaumes or Bonnezeaux) you can buy with confidence: making sweet wine is such a vexed business that only the obsessives bother to do it.

Oops, I Sipped It Again… 2009

Small detachments had from time to time been captured ever since the turn at Chaumes, but this was different.

"Contemptible", by "Casualty"