Orders may arrive +/- 2 days from your preferred delivery date.
Orders may arrive +/- 2 days from your preferred delivery date.
Hay-on-Wye is a light and creamy goat’s cheese with an ash rind and a smooth, bright white interior.
Minimum weight - 70g.
Average age 2-3 weeks
Pasteurised Goat's MILK, Salt, Vegetarian Coagulant, Cultures (contains trace cow's MILK)
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For orders under £39.50, standard delivery is £8.00.
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Dorstone, Herefordshire
With windmills and solar panels generating most of their energy and drain water being purified through a wetland system of willows and reeds, Neal's Yard Creamery, where Hay-on-Wye is made, has prioritised sustainability in the design of its facility.
A comparatively small production volume – relative to its bestselling siblings Ragstone and Dorstone – means that Neal's Yard Dairy are one of the few suppliers of this cheese. Like Dorstone and Ragstone, Hay-on-Wye is made using goat's milk bought in from neighbouring Wychmoor Farm at Titley. However, instead of being pre-drained, the curds are hand-ladled directly into moulds and left to settle slowly. It is this that results in the cheese's fine, smooth texture, while a coating of ash and a sprinkling of Geotrichum which develops as the cheese ages give it its characteristically fuzzy, dark-grey, speckled appearance.
Hay-on-Wye is made at Neal's Yard Creamery by Charlie Westhead – one of Neal's Yard Dairy's earliest employees. Neal's Yard Dairy started life as an actual dairy in Covent Garden, making yoghurts and crème fraiche and a few young cheeses. As we expanded into selling cheeses made elsewhere and it became apparent that the cheesemaking and cheese selling activities made more sense as separate businesses, the Creamery was established and moved to Kent. While the business has been independent from us for some time, we continue to work closely together.
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