Orders may arrive +/- 2 days from your preferred delivery date.
Orders may arrive +/- 2 days from your preferred delivery date.
Hidcote is a seasonal sheep’s milk cheese from David Jowett, with a mousse-like texture, delicate Geotrichum rind, and frangipane notes in the paste.
Minimum weight - 120g
Please note this is a seasonal cheese and is not available year round.
Average age 3 weeks
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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.
Chedworth, Gloucestershire
Hidcote was the first sheep’s milk cheese made at King Stone Dairy; it has since been joined by the semi-firm cheese Bibury.
Longtime friend of Neal’s Yard Dairy David Jowett has been making cheese at King Stone Dairy in Chedworth, Gloucestershire since 2019. After several years focusing on cow’s milk cheeses like Rollright, Ashcombe, and Yarlington, he began experimenting in 2024 with sheep’s milk from the nearby Cotswold village of Blockley. The result is Hidcote, a lactic cheese with a soft, creamy paste and a Geotrichum-ripened rind. Named after a nearby hamlet David has loved since childhood, Hidcote also nods to the celebrated Arts and Crafts garden created there by Lawrence Johnston—an influence on David’s own home garden and the origin of the famed Hidcote variety of lavender.
Since Hidcote is still a fairly new cheese, we are taking extra care to note variation from batch to batch. When each shipment arrives, we taste, touch, and examine the cheese to decide how best to mature it, and for how long.
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