milk type
Goat
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
season
All year
average age
3-4 Weeks
cheesemakers
Siobhan ni Ghairbhaith
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The St Tola we sell is made especially for us, and because the batches are small it means the curds and salt can be mixed by hand, which we think helps with the texture.
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St Tola
Flavours are delicate with a citric tang; textures are pleasantly dense yet creamy


The St Tola we sell is made especially for us, and because the batches are small it means the curds and salt can be mixed by hand, which we think helps with the texture.
milk type
Goat
ingredients
MILK, salt, rennet
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Raw
location
Inagh, Co Clare, Ireland
milk source
Own herd
season
All year
average age
3-4 Weeks
cheesemakers
Siobhan ni Ghairbhaith
background
St Tola is produced by former-schoolteacher-turned-cheesemaker Siobhán Ni Ghairbhith and her small team in the town of Inagh just south of Burren in County Clare. Made with raw organic goat's milk from the farm's herd of Saanen and Toggenburg goats, it is a fairly loose textured, mild and creamy cheese when young, but becomes firmer and more pungent in flavour as it ages and its natural golden rind develops.
our work with this cheese
The St Tola we sell is made to a special recipe for us, using uncooled morning milk and a little extra salt. As ours is made in a smaller batch than usual, the cheesemakers can gently mix the curds and salt by hand, which we think helps with the texture of the finished cheese. St Tola arrives at our maturation arches quite young. On arrival, it is dried in our drying room to stabilise the rind, which can otherwise become slippy. It is then turned every day for the first week it is with us, and every few days thereafter until it is ready to sell.