milk type
Cow
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Coomkeen, West Cork
milk source
Bought-in
season
All year
average age
2 Months
cheesemakers
Jeffa Gill; Sarah Bates
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Jeffa Gill, the creator of Durrus, was part of a pioneering network of women who sought to reinvigorate the art of farmhouse cheesemaking in Ireland in the 1970s.
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Durrus
A smooth, soft washed-rind cheese with flavours that range from milky and buttery at the paste, to vegetal with a cocoa-like bitterness at the rind


Jeffa Gill, the creator of Durrus, was part of a pioneering network of women who sought to reinvigorate the art of farmhouse cheesemaking in Ireland in the 1970s.
milk type
Cow
coagulant
Animal Rennet
milk treatment
Pasteurised
location
Coomkeen, West Cork
milk source
Bought-in
season
All year
average age
2 Months
cheesemakers
Jeffa Gill; Sarah Bates
background
Durrus arrives with us along with Gubbeen once every two weeks. The cheeses are then unwrapped and put on racks and kept in our warmest maturing room for about two weeks. When it is ready and matured, we like to think of it as like a fresh loaf of bread: best eaten fast!