PDO butter

The PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) label guarantees that a product has been produced using regional ingredients and a traditional manufacturing method. In Europe, butters with PDO labels are particularly distinctive, they include Belgian Ardennes butter (PDO since 1996) and the delicate Luxembourg Rose Butter (PDO since 2000). France has three PDOs: Charentes-Poitou butter (1979), Isigny Butter (1986) and Bresse Butter (2014). Charentes-Poitou butter comes from dairies in Aquitaine, in the center/west of France. After pasteurising the cream, it goes through a biological ripening period lasting at least 12 hours before being churned. Regarding Isigny butter, the cream must be extracted from milk collected in the south-west of Normandy. Bresse butter comes from the milk of cows grazing in remarkable groves in the center/east of France.