“Toasted nuts, caramel, milk chocolate and tobacco,” sounds like a modern Bordeaux with about ten or fifteen years of age. But we’re not talking about wine. We’re talking about coffee.
Comté has just as rich a history and strict standards of production as the wine regions surrounding it. This cheese, like the most important wine regions of France, has true terroir.
Wine has been around for some 7,000 years or so and we've surely been trying to make it better for nearly as long, but enology as we know it has really been the product of the past century or two.