Crottin de Chavignol is a small, drum-shaped goat's-milk cheese from the village of Chavignol near Sancerre, in the Berry region of France's central Loire. Weighing only about 60 grams, it is one of the most celebrated of all French chèvres — eaten young and chalky-white, or aged until it shrinks into a hard, dark, intensely flavoured nugget — and is the classic cheese of the warm-goat-cheese salad and the natural partner to the white wines of Sancerre.