crottin de chèvre - European Score 100/100

European Score analysis

Leader Price's goat's-milk crottin earns the maximum European Score of 100, built on a French supply chain. Company headquarters and manufacturing each take the full 35, reflecting a product owned and made within France, with the labelling pointing to the Poitou-Charentes area. Distribution adds 15 and proximity 5, indicating short domestic transport and a contained route to shelf.

Ingredients score the maximum 10, consistent with a traditional goat's cheese drawing on a short list of local inputs. Certifications register zero, the single absent dimension. The pack carries only a packaging-recovery mark, which is not treated as a qualifying certification, so no points accrue there. A recognised organic or protected-origin scheme would be the clearest way to fill that gap.

Within the goat's-milk crottin category, a field of 54 products, the cheese sits at the 50th percentile, placing it squarely at the category midpoint. That neutral position against a perfect headline score shows that strong French provenance is common among its peers, so the product neither leads nor trails. The most direct route to a higher relative standing would be formal certification, the one dimension where points remain available; without it, the cheese holds a solid but unremarkable place in a competitive field.