This is Menallack Farm's take on 'Feta'. It's a soft goats cheese using the milk from a single herd based near Truro, marinated in oil with herbs and sundried tomatoes. Just the thing for your summer salads!
Menallack itself is a hard cows' cheese, and can be found here.
More About Menallack Farm and it's Cheeses
John was a telecom engineer who lived all over (La Paz, the Yemen ...) before retiring to Cornwall with his wife Caryl in the 1980s. Inspired by a cheesmaker they'd met in Wales, Caryl started making cheese at Menallack, originally using milk from their own herd. At that time there were only three cheesemakers in Cornwall! Until her death in 2007, Caryl was the driving force at Menallack, and became an inpsiration to others wanting to tread a similar path.
Today Menallack is run by John with the help of right-hand-woman Jess (though he'd put it the other way around!). When you arrive at the farm there's a shop to your left, the cheese room itself to the right, and in the middle is the generous granite farmhouse. All in all seven people work here turning out - wait for it - sixteen different cheeses. That's the amazing thing! Unlike other makers who concentrate on one type of cheese, perhaps with a couple of variations, Menallack make hard cheese, soft cheese, blue cheese, flavoured cheeses, and use every sort of milk you can think of. Alright, not beaver. But everything else: we also offer several great soft cheeses of theirs, such as Nanterrow (ewe), Mrs Finns, Treverva Green and Heligan (basically a single 'mixed-milk' cheese made in various versions).
Click on the small picture to see the view from Menallack Farm!
