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Tasting notes and descriptions of your cheeses
Barber's Vintage Cheddar is the product of the world's oldest surviving cheddar-making family, who began their craft in Somerset, England, in 1833. Aged for at least 24 months, this cheese offers a powerful and complex flavour profile, marked by an intense tangy sharpness that gives way to appealing sweet and caramel notes. Its texture is firm and slightly crumbly, distinguished by the presence of natural flavour crystals that deliver a delightful crunch, while its authenticity is protected by the PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) status, guaranteeing it as a genuine West Country Farmhouse Cheddar made with the Barber family's closely guarded, unique starter cultures. (Vegetarian, Pasteurised, Cows’ milk)
Film-maker, French baron and affineur, Robert Pouget is one of British cheese’s more colourful characters. After opening a shop in Oxford’s covered market, he launched Oxford Blue in a quest to create the English answer to soft blue classics from the continent. It is a soft, full-bodied blue with a deep, rich flavour. A creamy full-fat soft cheese, it is well veined and has the distinctive tang of blue and an aromatic and spicy flavour with a hint of tarragon. This cheese has a good length so its taste lingers in your mouth. (Vegetarian,Pasteurised, Cows' milk)
Cenarth Brie is a high-quality artisan cheese made by Caws Cenarth on Glyneithinog Farm in West Wales, founded in 1987 by Thelma and Gwynfor Adams who drew on a six-generation family cheesemaking tradition. When European Union milk quotas were introduced in the 1980s, threatening to bankrupt small dairy farms like theirs, Thelma staged a legendary protest in the style of Cleopatra! She filled a bathtub with the farm's surplus milk and dramatically bathed in it to highlight the absurdity of the quotas, stating that it was cheaper to bathe in milk than water - a stunt that brought huge publicity and helped kickstart their cheese-making venture. The cheese is characterized by a creamy, edible white rind encasing a centre that, when fully ripened at room temperature, becomes wonderfully oozy and gooey. It offers a mellow, classic mushroomy flavour, underpinned by subtle notes of fresh butter and nuttiness that intensify as the cheese matures, making it a delicious example of Welsh farmhouse cheese. (Vegetarian, Pasteurised, Cow's milk)
Quickes are one of the most well-known and well-respected cheese-makers in the country, making traditional cloth-bound cheddar on their Devon farm with the milk from their herd of cows (a unique cross of 7 different breeds to create the ultimate hybrid – the Quickes cow!). Double Devonshire is their unique take on a traditional Double Gloucester, an elegant and mellow cheese with a buttery, long-lasting flavour. Typically matured for 3 to 6 months, this clothbound truckle pairs beautifully with a sparkling white wine such as another Devonshire classic, Sharpham’s Sparkling Blanc. (Pasteurised, Cows’ milk)