Orders may arrive +/- 2 days from your preferred delivery date.
Orders may arrive +/- 2 days from your preferred delivery date.
A Welsh-made Cheddar cheese with rich, layered flavours and a supple texture, its interior reveals a warmly golden paste and the occasional blue vein.
Natural larded rind.
*Please note that we sell both a pasteurised and a raw milk version of this cheese. The cheese you receive will be labelled with the appropriate milk treatment.
Average age 10-18 months
Raw or Pasteurised Cow's MILK, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Animal Rennet, Matured with Lard
Standard delivery is free to most postcodes in the UK for orders over £39.50. Click here for a list of postcodes where additional delivery charges apply.
For orders under £39.50, standard delivery is £8.00.
Collection from our London shops is free - choose Shop Collection at checkout.
Ceredigion, Wales
Hafod is made on a Welsh dairy farm where almost all of the cows' feed and bedding is produced on the farm's land.
Situated near the coast in west Wales, Bwlchwernen Fawr has been home to the Holden family since the early 1970s. A leading figure in the Soil Association and more recently the Sustainable Food Trust, Patrick Holden's influence on British farming has been considerable, but it wasn't until his son Sam returned to Bwlchwernen Fawr in 2007 that they began making cheese on the farm. Hafod is Welsh for 'summer place' or 'pasture', and it's on such pasture – up the hill from the river Aeron – that the Holdens' 80-strong herd of Ayrshire cows graze when they're not sheltering for winter. The vast majority of the herd's diet is grown on the farm's land, as is the straw for the indoor bedding: for the past four decades the family have been working toward a system where the farm is wholly self-sustaining.
We visit Holden Farm Dairy three times a year, and our visits are different to our other Cheddar selections. As Bwlchwernen Fawr is so far away, when we visit we spend time with the team looking over make notes and correlating those observations with our tasting notes, helping to shape the team's future experiments and approach.
Hafod is a regular order and is airways superb
Neal's Yard Dairy could not have been more helpful with this order, and delivered the cheese order direct to the venue as per my request.
Many thanks for your feedback Suzie! We're happy to hear that it all went well.
Kind regards,
NYD
Lovely bit of cheese. Unimpeachable.
We appreciate your feedback Edward. Thank you so much!
Best wishes,
NYD
Staff very helpful in making arrangements for delivery. It came on time and in perfect condition and was delicious.
Your feedback is much appreciated Douglas. Thank you for sharing it.
Best wishes,
NYD
Not sure what to say. It’s cheddar but…… This is seriously good cheese. Addictive.
We appreciate your feedback Gideon. Thank you so much for sharing it!
All the best,
NYD
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