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Alpage
The high pastures, the calendar that moves the herds, and the cheeses that carry a summer down.
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The Calendar of Ascent
Transhumance in the Savoyard Alps — the dates of the montée, the altitude bands the herds move through and the infrastructure (paths, fountains, shepherd huts) that makes the practice possible. A piece that reads the alpage as a documented seasonal system, not a pastoral image.
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The Wheel and the Record
Inside the Beaufort aging cellar — the wheel's dimensions (minimum 65 cm diameter, 35–45 kg, per AOC specification), the salting and turning schedule, and what the cooperative's records show about production volumes in a documented recent year.
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Tomme de Savoie: The Cheese the Alpage Kept for Itself
After the cream was lifted, what remained was still worth pressing.
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The Chalet Is an Answer to a Specific Problem
The Savoyard chalet as a building type — timber frame, stone base, lauze roof — read as a structural response to snowload, altitude and available material rather than as a vernacular style.