Cheese of the Month Subscription

Our Cheese Subscription is a great way to explore the world of British farmhouse cheese, and a perfect gift for adventurous cheese lovers. It is ideal for people who enjoy entertaining or those who like having a few hearty pieces of cheese to hand for both cheeseboards and cooking. Each delivery will include four different cheeses weighing at least 1.1kg in total.

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Standard delivery is free to most postcodes in the UK for orders over £29.50. Click here for a list of postcodes where additional delivery charges apply.

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If you have ordered a cheese subscription, your second and subsequent deliveries will occur approximately 30 days after your first delivery date.

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"I think cheese is the perfect present. There are few people who don’t love it, it lasts well and good cheese is a real treat. It is the ultimate spoiling." Thomasina Miers

The cheeses included in this month's selection are listed below.

Tower of whole and various sized cut pieces of Beenleigh Blue vegetarian sheep’s cheese with delicate blueing and moist but crumbly texture

Beenleigh Blue

milk type
Sheep

coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant

milk treatment
Pasteurised

A delicately blue sheep’s milk cheese from Devon, with a lemony sweetness and moist, crumbly texture that belies its Roquefort-inspired recipe.

Various sized cut pieces sat on a whole Cornish Yarg cow’s milk cheese, showing the green nettle-wrapped, edible rind and buttery, creamy paste

Close up image of the creamy paste and nettle-wrapped rind of Cornish Kern cow's milk cheese

Close up of the mould-flecked green nettle-wrapped rind of a Cornish Yarg cow’s milk cheese

Neal's Yard Dairy Selection Box packaging

Cornish Yarg

milk type
Cow

coagulant
Animal Rennet

milk treatment
Pasteurised

A striking, nettle-wrapped cheese whose delicately earthy rind gives way a buttery breakdown and crumbly core, with notes of lemon and yoghurt.

Evenlode

milk type
Cow

coagulant
Animal Rennet

milk treatment
Pasteurised

A vivid and pungent washed-rind cheese from King Stone Dairy, with a sticky rind giving way to a buttery breakdown and a firm, curdy centre. Flavours are bright and yoghurty at the core, and become more pungent with hints of peanut and even bacon underneath the dusky orange rind.

Evenlode is not currently being produced.

Minimum: 1.4kg.

Tower of whole and smaller cut pieces of Kirkham's Lancashire cheeses showing the lard bound outer-casing and crumbly textured paste

Close up of a cut piece of Kirkham's Lancashire cheese in front of some larger cuts, showing the crumbly textured paste

Kirkham's Lancashire

milk type
Cow

coagulant
Animal Rennet

milk treatment
Raw

Best known for its inimitable crumbly-yet-creamy texture – a texture the Kirkham family call ‘buttery crumble’ – this raw milk farmhouse Lancashire boasts a bright, full flavour finished off by a light, yoghurty tang.

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