Price per 100g: £1.95
Appleby’s Cheshire
Possibly England’s oldest cheese, it has a loose and crumbly texture, and is more moist than many other hard cheeses. Salmon pink paste with savoury, herby flavours.
Price per 100g: £2.70
Barkham Blue
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Barkham, Berkshire,
England
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Barkham Blue is shaped like an ammonite and typically weighs slightly above a kilogram. It has a thin, natural brown-grey mouldy rind, which when cut open reveals a butter-coloured paste, resplendent with rich blue-green veins. It is made from a mixture of Jersey and Guernsey milk and, as a result is smooth and creamy with a melt-in-the-mouth texture. The flavour can be described as sweet with a touch of spicy pepperiness and despite the full blue quality, it never overpowers.
Price per 100g: £3.22
Bath Soft Cheese
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Kelston, near Bath,
Somerset
England
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Graham Padfield first made Bath Soft Cheese in 1993, although the recipe itself is over 200 years old and the Camembert-style cheese is growing increasingly in popularity. It is creamy (at the height of maturity, it is unctuous and spreadable) and rich with a faint, but unmistakeable taste of mushroom and a grassy finish. As the cheese matures, a pepperiness becomes more pronounced. The bloomy rind is thin and edible.
Price per 100g: £2.85
Beenleigh Blue
Tangy unpasteurised sheep’s milk blue cheese rather in the style of a Roquefort. A moist and crumbly texture with a blue green mould running through an ivory paste. It has a rich and slightly sweet flavour. The aroma is full of toasty nuts and mould.
Price per 100g: £2.65
Cashel Blue
Made by Louis and Jane Grubb with milk from their own herd of Friesian cattle. The rich creamy texture is well marbled with nutty blue moulds which start to gently ooze and melt making this cheese a very satisfying and enjoyable experience.
Price per 100g: £1.90
Cornish Yarg
This beautiful Cornish cheese has a unique covering of local nettle leaves, which gives it a lovely herby taste. The young cheese is fresh and lemony with a touch of herbs. Older cheeses become more aromatic and slightly peppery.
Price per 100g: £2.02
Cropwell Bishop Shropshire Blue
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Vale of Belvoir, Nottingham,
England
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Sometimes describes as a cross between Stilton and Cheshire, this russet-coloured blue-veined cheese has a slightly nutty flavour and delicate creaminess. The colour is obtained from the addition of Annatto, a natural colouring agent. Visually striking, Cropwell Bishop's Shropshire Blue won Best English Cheese at the 2006 British Cheese Awards.
Price per 100g: £1.90
Devon Blue
A rich and creamy unpasteurised cows milk cheese using vegetarian rennet. The nutty, tangy blue veins gently bleed into the crumbly cheese which is rather moist with a full earthy aroma and buttery lively taste.
Price per 100g: £2.60
Gubbeen
The micro climate of this region produces some of the finest cheese and this one is no exception. The salty sea air is perfect for this type of cheese which has a silky, pliable texture and a fresh, milky flavour.
Price per 100g: £2.70
Harbourne Blue
Goats milk cheese using vegetable rennet. Firm and crumbly textured with a grainy pate and sharp full and fruity blue moulds. A strong full bodied flavour.
Price per 100g: £5.26
Innes Bosworth Ash Log
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Tamworth,
Staffordshire
England
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An matured unpasteurised goats cheese rolled in salted ash beneath a layer of white rind which creates a jagged, grey circumference when sliced. Garnished with a sprig of fresh rosemary. Minimum weight 160g.
Price per 100g: £1.90
Kirkham's Lancashire
A fresh, full tasting, moist, crumbly cheese, made the traditional way. After a few months maturing the cheese becomes denser and more full bodied with rich mineral and earthy flavours.
Price per 100g: £6.04
Little Wallop
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Shepton Mallet,
Somerset
England
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Little Wallop is one of the new charmers on the British cheese scene. Small and powerful, this goat’s cheese is washed in Somerset Cider Brandy. It is mild and fresh with a hint of sweetness when young, but becomes more intense and slightly goatier with age, at which point the paste softens and becomes almost runny.
Price per 100g: £2.17
Oxford Blue Mini
First produced by Baron Robert Pouget at the Oxford Blue Cheese Company in 1993, this is a lovely blue with just the right amount of sharpness. It is rich and creamy (more so than a Stilton) and quite moist.
Price per 100g: £2.70
Rachel
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Shepton Mallet,
Somerset
England
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Rachel is a wonderfully flavoured semi-hard goat’s cheese made by Pete Humphries, alongside Roger Longman, at his farm near Shepton Mallet, Somerset. One of eleven cheeses currently produced by the dairy, it is a washed rind cheese with a firm but incredibly velvety, snowy white pate. The flavour is rich, sweet and clean, without too much ‘goatiness’ and quite nutty. The washed rind, which is mold-speckled is also nutty.
Price per 100g: £2.60
Smoked Gubbeen
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Schull, County Cork,
Ireland
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Gubbeen is made with pasteurised cow’s milk and vegetable rennet and has a supple springy texture. The pinkish wrinkled washed rind is achieved by careful washing and turning while the cheese matures. The cheese is then slowly smoked over oak chips, which adds a pleasant smokiness without overpowering the flavours of the cheese itself.
Price per 100g: £3.00
Stinking Bishop
Stinking Bishop uses perry as its wash and has a sticky yellow-orange rind which is very pungent. The paste is soft and creamy, the flavour is delicious and, although full and distinctive, it is not quite as pungent as the odour may imply. The cheese is similar to an Epoisses or a Vacherin Mont d’Or.
Price per 100g: £2.65
Ticklemore
Ticklemore is a gentle, very pale, goat’s milk cheese with a white bloomy rind. The natural grey/white blooms on the crust form during the maturing process. The flaky pate has tiny eyelet holes scattered throughout and the taste is fresh, light and gentle.
Price per 100g: £2.97
Tunworth
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Herriard Village,
England
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This soft, mellow tasting cheese with a thin bloomy rind has scooped up Supreme Champion at the British Cheese Awards 2006. While the almost melting edges cling to the fudgy centre with the rind giving a non-invasive taste or aroma, this is really a great leap forward for British cheese making.
Price per 100g: £2.75
Waterloo
The cheese has a rather French farmhouse style with a creamy rich pate, yet still slightly firm and flaky in the centre. Rich and buttery taste with a gentle earthy aroma.
Price per 100g: £2.30
Wensleydale - Hawes
Semi-hard crumbly textured cheese made from pasteurized cows milk using vegetable rennet. It has a moist, hazelnut creamy taste with a fresh salty tang.
Price per 100g: £3.55
Wigmore
A cheese made from unpasteurised sheep`s milk using vegetable rennet. It has natural wrinkled grey/white moulds scattered between bloomy moulds on the crust. The sappy fruity rich flavour is quite sharp and crumbly when young, but with maturing the edges begin to melt making it a velvety rich mellow tasting cheese. Regular award winner. Available in 2 sizes.
Price per 100g: £2.65
Woolsery
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Up Sydling, Dorset,
England
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Woolsery is a lightly pressed cheese with a firm but flexible, moist and snowy white pate, whose texture is cheddar-like. The flavour is rich and milky, without too much ‘goatiness’ and the aroma is reminiscent of pine nuts.
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