Neufchâtel is a soft, bloomy-rind cow's-milk cheese from the Pays de Bray in northern Normandy, France — one of the country's oldest cheeses and, in its best-known form, moulded into a small heart (the cœur de Neufchâtel). Under a downy, edible white rind the pale-ivory paste is supple and lightly grainy, with a flavour that is salty, mushroomy and faintly sharp, softening and deepening as the cheese ages.