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  "name": "Washed-rind cheese"
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  "burgundy"
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  "course": "cheese",
  "country": "France"
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 "text": {
  "what": "Époisses, Soumaintrain, Langres — Burgundy's own cheeses, washed in brine and marc until they smell like a farmyard and taste milder than they smell. The classic local match, and a difficult one: the same wash that makes the rind pungent can flatten a delicate bottle."
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   "to": "burgundy",
   "as": "Whose cheese board this is.",
   "rel": "region"
  },
  {
   "to": "pinot-noir",
   "as": "Poured with it locally, and argued about everywhere else.",
   "rel": "variety"
  }
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  }
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 "confidence": "low",
 "updated": "2026-09-16",
 "blurb": "Époisses, Soumaintrain, Langres — Burgundy's own cheeses, washed in brine and marc until they smell like a farmyard and taste milder than they smell.",
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   "to": "burgundy",
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   "name": "Burgundy",
   "as": "Whose cheese board this is.",
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  {
   "to": "pinot-noir",
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  }
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   "id": "s:wp-wine-and-food-matching",
   "kind": "encyclopaedia",
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   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?curid=1045978",
   "permalink": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348171918",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0"
  }
 ],
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  "text.what": {
   "tier": "tradition"
  }
 },
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 "kin_in": []
}