Made by Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith
Inagh, Co Clare
Karst was developed in late 2021 in collaboration with Neal's Yard Dairy.
Karst is produced by former-schoolteacher-turned-cheesemaker Siobhán Ní Gháirbhith and her small team in the town of Inagh just south of The Burren in County Clare. Made with goat's milk from the farm's herd of Saanen and Toggenburg goats, it is a fairly loose textured, mild and creamy.
We have enjoyed selling St Tola for many years but the large format makes it difficult for some people to handle. In response to this, we proposed the development of a new smaller format cheese that shared many of the other characteristics of St Tola. Our initial taste trials involved versions with and without ash. Our sales and maturation teams preferred the appearance and flavour of the ashed versions. Karst is named after the unique limestone formations typical of The Burren. We continue to provide feedback on this cheese, a process helped by the farm's practice of keeping samples back from each batch they send us to taste alongside us.
This a goat’s cheese for those who don’t like it too ‘goaty’. Lovely with some fresh cherries we had this week.
This was totally delicious 🤤 absolutely lovely texture and taste with the blackness round the edges adding an extra zing. The only downside was I thought it'd be a bit bigger than it was
We appreciate your feedback Crissi, many thanks for sharing it with us!
Kind regards,
NYD
Current favourite cheese!
Lovely to receive your feedback Dympna! Thank you so much for sharing it with us - we're happy to hear that Karst is hitting the spot!
All the best,
NYD
Yum
Hi Amy, we appreciate your feedback! Many thanks!
All best
NYD
exceptional quality
We appreciate your feedback Adam, many thanks for sharing it.
Kind regards,
NYD