"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
Pevensey Blue
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
A creamy, Gorgonzola-like blue, the flavour of which deepens and sweetens as it matures until it is reminiscent of hazelnut chocolate: milky and sweet but with a pleasantly nutty bite.
We often see some mottling/discolouration in the paste of the cheese as it ripens. This does not affect the flavour.
Currently available in our shops and in our cheese of the month selection. We will have a limited number of cheeses available for Christmas delivery which are now available to pre-order.
Templegall
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet. Traces: EGG
coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant
Templegall is an Alpine style cheese, rather like a Comté, made by the Hegartys in Cork, Ireland.
Westcombe Oxenlees
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
Westcombe is a smooth, well rounded farmhouse Cheddar from Somerset, selected for its warm, lingering flavours and happy balance of creaminess and acidity. Oxenlees, named after one of the fields on their farm, is a project to select and age on the best batches of Westcombe Cheddar.
Clothbound with lard.
Winslade
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Vegetarian Coagulant
A small, soft and oozing cheese with a quiet floral earthiness. It is superbly rich and gentle on the palate. Its spruce band imparts a distinctive piney note.
Minimum: 230g.
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