names a group of cheese

Cheese

Cheese is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products. Cheese is produced throughout the world in wide-ranging flavors, textures, and forms....

s produced in the Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

, including:

• Battelmatt
• Fontina
  Fontina
  Fontina is a cow's milk Italian cheese. Fontina cheese has been made in the Aosta Valley, in the Alps since the 12th century. It has a milk fat content of around 45%. As with many original varieties, the name "Fontina" has been imposed upon by such derivatives as "Fontinella", "Fontal", and...
  
  
• Piora
• Gruyère
  Gruyère (cheese)
  Gruyère is a hard yellow cheese, named after the town of Gruyères in Switzerland, and originated in the cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura, and Berne...
  
  
• Montasio
  Montasio
  Montasio is a cheese made from cow's milk, produced in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto regions of northeastern Italy.It was awarded a protected designation of origin in 1986.-External links:**...
  
  
• Vacherin Fribourgeois
  Vacherin (cheese)
  Vacherin is a cow's-milk cheese. Two main types of French or Swiss Vacherin cheeses exist.-Mont d'Or:One is a soft, rich, seasonal cheese made from cow's-milk in Switzerland or France, usually in villages of the Jura region , and has a grayish-yellow washed rind and is called Mont d'Or, or...
  
  
• Walliser

The term is used also generically (especially in Austria) for cheeses which resemble these in taste and texture but do not come from one of the traditional cheese making regions. The texture is rather hard, sometimes with small holes or cracks, the flavour strong and often a bit nutty.