milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Chedworth, Gloucestershire
milk source
Produced on-site
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milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Chedworth, Gloucestershire
milk source
Produced on-site
season
All year
cheesemakers
David Jowett
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FAQs
As a general rule of thumb, we would recommend roughly between 100 and 150 grams per person for after dinner, and a bit more if cheese is the focus of the meal. If you are buying cheese to serve over a couple of days or as part of a buffet, it is advisable to buy a few larger pieces. This will both look better and keep better than many small bits. To help visualise weights, a good tip is to consider that a regular supermarket pat of butter weighs between 200 and 250 grams. If you are at all unsure please give us a call for some advice.
The best option is to keep your cheese wrapped in its paper within a box in the fridge. This will prevent the cheese from drying out and absorbing other flavours. Your cheese will arrive wrapped in waxed cheese paper, which achieves the best possible balance between maintaining humidity around the cheese and allowing it to breathe. We are happy to provide some free extra cheese paper, just search for "cheese paper" and add it to your basket. We don't recommend cling film or foil as it can cause the cheese to sweat which will negatively affect the flavour.

Evenlode
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


King Stone Dairy is so called for the King Stone: one of several Neolithic and Bronze Age stones to be found in the part of the Cotswolds where the dairy was first located before moving to Chedworth
milk type
Cow
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Chedworth, Gloucestershire
milk source
Produced on-site
season
All year
cheesemakers
David Jowett
background
Evenlode is a fairly new cheese from the maker of Rollright, David Jowett at King Stone Dairy. Developed in 2018, it was initially conceived as a mould-ripened cheese – yet as the cheeses continued to mature alongside Rollright, they developed stickier, more colourful rinds, with the sort of meaty flavours more typical of washed-rind cheeses – so David decided to allow the cheese to evolve in that direction. Evenlode takes its name from a village near to Kingstone Dairy, to the north-east of the Cotswolds.
our work with this cheese
David Jowett selects the batches of Evenlode for us, which are then collected by our drivers on our Midlands run. When the cheese arrives with us it is kept wrapped up in one of our cooler maturing rooms until it is ready to be sold.