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Meldon We've gradually added more of the cheeses made by Rachel Stephens of Stockbeare in North Devon. Rachel is best known for Curworthy and Devon Oke, but makes a number of other cheeses. ...
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Cornish Kern Cornish Kern is the new cheese from Lynher Dairies, makers of a modern classic in Cornish Yarg. Kern is longer-matured (16 months), more dense in texture and much more intense than Yarg. Cather...
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Tunworth Since this is made in Hampshire it’s officially a bit outside our area, but we’re bending the rules because Tunworth is a camembert-style cheese in a class of its own. In fact Raymond B...
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Kelston Park Park Farm is in Kelston, just outside Bath. Graham Padfield is a third-generation farmer, but the first in his family to make cheese: he started, back in 1993, with Bath Soft Cheese, and this...
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Little Ryding Hand-made by James and David Bartlett in their dairy at North Wootton, near Shepton Mallet. Little Ryding, made with unpasteurised organic milk from their own herd, has a creamy texture and rich, d...
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Miss Muffet Describing cheeses is dificult! In my struggle to do that, I may be guilty of over-using the term 'distinctive ... but when it comes to Sue Proudfoot's cheeses, that adjective definitely fi...
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Merry Wyfe The latest cheese from Graham Padfield of Park Farm, near Bath is this washed rind cheese based on Wyfe Of Bath. Unlike that cheese, however, this one is pressed after making to remove moisture and...
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Somerset Chilli

Somerset Chilli Made by Somerset Cheese Company, based near Ditcheat, this is based around cheddar but adds Somerset-grown chillies and cracked black pepper. The added flavouring strikes a nice balance - adding a ...
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Francis A beautiful washed rind cheese from James McCall. Francis starts life as 'Stoney Cross', made by Salisbury-based Lyburn Cheese. James then carries it off to Dorset, matures it and was...
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Pendragon This a buffalo milk cheese – firm and made in the cheddar style, it has a buttery texture and a very distinctive flavour – strong and savoury. If you haven't had buffalo chees...
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Dorset Red We've always been light on cheeses made in Dorset, so here's a small step to set that straight. Dorset Red is made on by Ford Farm, based on the Ashley Chase Estate near Dorchester, a...
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Tilly Whim This colourful little cheese has a natural rind encasing a wonderfully smooth textured semi-soft cheese inside. Throughout its ripening period of around 6-10 weeks, the wonderful range of natural f...
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Cricket St Thomas Camembert

Cricket St Thomas Camembert Rich and creamy with a soft edible white rind. As the cheese matures the curd softens, turning to a butter or straw colour and developing a fuller flavour. From the same maker, see Some...
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Helford Sunrise

Helford Sunrise A very unusual soft cheese, Helford Sunrise is a close relative of Helford White and from the same dairy - but with crushed black peppercorns on the rind, and the addition of the vegetable dye anna...
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Oakdown This is a soft, fresh (i.e made very quickly) goats cheese made with unpasteurised milk from "happy free range goats", it says on the box, and who can argue with that? It's very...
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Montgomery's Cheddar

Montgomery's Cheddar The Montgomerys have made cheese on their farm near Yeovil in south Somerset for three generations. Perhaps the epitome of traditional cheddar, and made in a truly traditional way – matured f...
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Somerset Herb, Garlic & Cider

Somerset Herb, Garlic & Cider Based around cheddar, this cheese from the Ditcheat-based Somerset Cheese Company adds herbs, garlic and locally made cider. Vegetarian, pasteurised.
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Pennard Vale A cheddar-style hard goats cheese, Pennard Vale is made by Philip Rainbow at Somerset Cheese Company. Philip specialises in all the 'other' milks (i.e not cow). Pennard Vale has...
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Dorset White A soft white mould-ripened cheese in a small ‘log’ shape. The thicker ‘log’-shape of the Dorset White allows for an even creamier, stronger paste just under the rind when ri...
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Ticklemore Ticklemore goat cheese is light and delicate with small holes. The taste is mild, fresh, sweet ... its a subtle goats cheese. Originally made by Robin Congdon of Ticklemore Dairy (B...
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Sharpham Elmhirst

Sharpham Elmhirst There aren't too many handmade cheeses with added cream in the UK, but this may be one of the best. Similar to a Vignotte, it has a surprisingly light texture and delicate flavour if eate...
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Dorset Blue Vinny

Dorset Blue Vinny An old Dorset recipe which had almost died out until Michael Davies revived it! This delightful, slightly crumbly blue cheese has a pleasantly soft taste. Made from semi-skimmed m...
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Cornish Yarg Yarg is Yunique! A moist cheese from Cornwall with a fresh, creamy taste and a quality all of its own - derived from the hand-applied covering of nettles. A great-looking, great-tasting a...
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Polmarkyn Blue Polmarkyn Blue is a soft goats' cheese, rare in that it's a soft blue goats' cheese - the only one we stock. It has a white rind, a slightly gooey texture and a subtle amount of blue.&n...
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Pavé Cobble Pete Humphries, of Whitelake Cheese in Somerset, is a maker we're always interested in. So when this mini ewes' milk pyramid appeared it was something we needed to stock. The deliciously so...
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Rachel Cheese Shed favourites White Lake Cheese, from Somerset, are now making two 'washed rind' cheeses. Rachel is the goats' milk version, whilst Morn Dew uses cows' milk. Whi...
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Cornish Gouda Gouda is the Netherlands' great contribution to European cheese, and this sweet, mellow cheese has been famous since the 12th Century. Now a Dutch family has begun making it near Polruan in sou...
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Katherine Firm goats' cheese washed with cider brandy, made by Pete Humphries of Somerset's Whitelake Dairy. 250g, unpasteurised, not vegetarian
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Westcombe Cheddar

Westcombe Cheddar Westcombe Dairy produces one of the 'big three' Somerset cheddars, the others being Keen's and Montgomery's. Although cheese had been made at Westcombe Farm, near Shepton Mallett, s...
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Cornish Camembert

Cornish Camembert Many, perhaps most, of the cheeses featured by The Cheese Shed can truly be called 'artisan' cheeses: they're made by committed, expert small-scale makers. This doesn't come in...
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Haytor North Devon based Rachel Stephens is best known for her Curworthy family of cheeses, including Devon Oke, Meldon and others. Haytor - based on a ‘gruyere’ type recipe - is different, so...
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Rosary Rosary is a fresh, creamy goats' cheese with a mousse-like texture and a natural acidity. Recent winner of the Supreme Champion Award at the British Cheese Awards 2014, it is made from pasteuri...
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Parke A soft, 'fresh' cheese, Parke is made in South Devon specially for The Cheese Shed. Fresh cheeses like this are made very quickly - ready to eat in about a day - so they're always mild,...
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Stinking Bishop

Stinking Bishop This cheese is not run-of-the-mill. There's no doubt that Charles Martell has created a cheese of great distinction, smelly for sure, think Pont L'Eveque or Epoisses, but with a delightful ...
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Smarts Single Gloucester

Smarts Single Gloucester Diana is the Queen of Double Gloucester, but also has another cheese up her sleeve (so to speak). Single Goucester is another hard cows cheese but without the red annato colouring used in the...
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Devon Oke From Stockbeare Farm in North Devon, this is a full fat hard cheese based on a traditional 17th Century recipe. It's matured for 5 months, giving it an entirely different quality from the young...
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Cerney Ash Made by Barbara Angus near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, this soft, young cheese won the title of Supreme Champion at the British Cheese Awards in 2000. The model for this beautiful pyramid-shape...
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Keen's Cheddar Matured in cloth for over 12 months, the cheese uses only milk from their own dairy herd, with the untreated milk being used within a day of milking. Only about 130 cheeses are made per week. K...
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Quicke's Extra Mature

Quicke's Extra Mature The Quicke family of Devon has been in dairy on the same farm just north of Exeter for over 450 years! All their cheddar is matured slowly on wooden shelves (this one for at least 18 months), wrapp...
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Polmarkyn White

Polmarkyn White Polmarkyn White is a soft, slightly crumbly goats' cheese made just off the south-east corner of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. Katie Wood and partner Glyn have a small herd of goats and as well as c...
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Godminster Cheddar

Godminster Cheddar A fabulous cheese! In its distinctive purple wax, Godminster Organic Cheddar is a powerful cheese with a real edge to it - wow! Made near Bruton in Somerset, it also comes in a heart-shaped v...
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Millstone A hard ewes' mllk cheese, Millstone is made near Shepton Mallet by Wooton Organic Dairy, aka James and David Bartlett. Compared to the more cheddar-esque quality of Fosseway Fleece, this ...
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Dumpling Not many cheeses that we sell are in a class of one - but James and David Bartlett's 'Dumpling' is! This dreamily soft ewes' milk offering is what's known as a 'lactic' ...
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Sharpham Savour

Sharpham Savour I first encountered this new cheese from Sharpham at their open day. It's 'washed curd' (the method associated with Dutch cheeses), but most excitingly it mixes Sharpham's own Jerse...
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Eve Eve is a cute little beauty of a cheese. Made by Pete Humphries of Somerset's Whitelake Cheese, this small and meltingly soft goats’ cheese is washed in Somerset Cider Brandy and th...
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Cornish Smuggler

Cornish Smuggler Sue Proudfoot's first cheese was Trelawney - a traditional cheddar-style cheese, matured for a relatively short six weeks. Now she's created a red-orange veined version called Cornish Smugg...
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Smoked Wedmore Somerset's Chris Duckett was one of the pioneer artisan cheese makers. A real specialist, he concentrated on a superb Caerphilly. But there are several versions of this! Wedmo...
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Posbury A medium soft cheese with garlic, onion, horseradish and paprika. Made by Dave Johnson of Crediton, Devon. Pictured: some of Dave's goats. Vegetarian / Unpasteurised
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Goddess Made by Pete Humphries of Whitelake Cheese, this is a particulary special washed rind cheese which brings together the extra-creaminess of milk from Guernsey cows with Somerset Cider Brandy - used ...
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Westcombe Red Not quite the only unpasteurized Red Leicester ... there is now one called Sparkenhoe being made in Leicestershire itself. But Westcombe Red was the one that brought real farmhouse Red Leices...
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Sharpham Rustic

Sharpham Rustic Sharpham Cheeses are near neighbours of Ticklemore Cheese in South Devon, and between them they produce a remarkable range of marvellous products. The 'Rustic' is semi-hard, matured for...
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Dartmoor Chilli

Dartmoor Chilli The first Westcountry artisan cheese that we've come across to feature added chilli, this cheese brings together the talents of cheese maker Rachel Stephens and the Dartmoor Chili farm, based n...
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Washbourne Washbourne is a firm ewes' milk cheese made using the 'washed curd' method which tends to produce cheeses which taste sweeter, and that's the case here too. It's rich, comp...
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Cranborne Made by Alison French in Dorset. Alison used to be with Cranborne Chase Cheese, and when we started out, she & partner James McCall were making washed rind cheeses like Alderwood alongside soft...
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Capricorn Made by the Lubborn Creamery in Somerset, Capricorn has a delicate, velvety, soft white coat. When young it is mild, crumbly and has a nutty flavour. As it ripens, the white curd becomes softer an...
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Rustic - Garlic & Chives

Rustic - Garlic & Chives From the Sharpham estate in South Devon, this is a slight variation on the lovely Sharpham Rustic, flavoured with chives and garlic. Rustic is a cheese that looks and tastes wonderful. E...
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Wild Garlic Yarg

Wild Garlic Yarg A moist cheese with a fresh, clean taste. Here the covering is not nettles - as per 'normal' Cornish Yarg - but naturally grown wild garlic leaves. Think Caerphilly in a dark...
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Cornish Blue Designed to be eaten as a young cheese, Cornish Blue is a very different product from traditional English blue cheeses such as Stilton or Dorset Blue Vinny. Moist, sticky, Gorgonzola-ish and genera...
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Curworthy From Rachel Stephens of Stockbeare Farm in North Devon, this is a full fat hard cheese based on a traditional 17th Century recipe. Available in a black wax. Devon Oke is the same cheese...
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Quickes Goats Cheese

Quickes Goats Cheese Renowned makers Quickes drew on their cheddar-making experience for this goats' cheese, created with the help of Val Bines, who offered her expert help and advice to Mary and the team over many...
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Ford Farm Cave Aged Cheddar

Ford Farm Cave Aged Cheddar Ford Farm's cave-aged cheddar is made in their dairy in Dorset, but matured in the unique environment of Somerset's Wookey Hole cave. Maturing cheese in caves is nothing new in France - Roq...
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Double Devonshire

Double Devonshire The Quicke family has been making cheese on the same farm just north of Exeter for over 450 years. It's unusual to find a Double Gloucester produced using traditional methods; Quickes ver...
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Truffler It may no longer be unique, but we do think this was the first English cheese to be made with added truffles. Cheese maker Phil Rainbow takes his Six Spires cheddar, adding chopped Italian black tr...
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Quicke's Vintage

Quicke's Vintage Quicke's, based at Newton St Cyres, just north of Exeter, are world famous for their wonderful cheddar, and at 24 months the Vintage is their longest-matured version. From the 18-month aged...
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St Endellion A luxury version of Cornish Brie made with double cream. Wonderful character and complexity of flavour. For another added-cream cheese along these lines, see Sharpham's Elmhirst. Vege...
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Bath Soft Cheese

Bath Soft Cheese Bath Soft Cheese is Soft and yielding, with a mushroomy coat and a rich, flowing interior, one cheese writer said "eating it is pure luxury". The 4" square cheese, attractively...
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Tornegus This cheese, invented by James Aldridge, is based on Chris Duckett's Caerphilly. Tornegus is a washed-rind cheese - during maturation the rind is washed with brine including some special b...
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Quicke's Oak Smoked Cheddar

Quicke's Oak Smoked Cheddar The Quicke family from Devon has been making cheese on the same farm just north of Exeter for over 450 years! All their cheddar is matured slowly, wrapped in muslin cloth, to develop a real d...
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Smart's Double Gloucester

Smart's Double Gloucester 'Rich', 'mellow', 'powerful', 'earthy, almost smoky' are all terms that have been used to describe this cheese and you won't find anyone here to disagree. ...
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Winslade Hampshire Cheeses - Stacey Hedges and Charlotte Spruce - started off in 2006 with the acclaimed Camembert-style Tunworth. In 2013 they added a second cheese, Winslade, conceived as a cross between ...
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Keltic Gold Also sold at Fortnum and Masons and top cheese retailers Paxton and Whitfield, so if you assumed that this cheese from Sue Proudfoot of Whalesborough Farm in Bude, Cornwall, has real character and ...
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Drogo A soft, 'fresh' cheese, Drogo is made in South Devon specially for The Cheese Shed. Fresh cheeses like this are made very quickly - ready to eat in about a day - so they're always mild,...
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Devon Blue An excellent blue cows' cheese with a moist, slightly crumbly texture. Made by Robin Congdon, of Ticklemore Cheese, on his farm by the banks of the River Dart. He's a real blue ...
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Cornish Brie Cornish Brie has a delicious mild and creamy flavour and melting, smooth texture. The rich and creamy Cornish milk gives it a characteristic yellow, buttery colour. Makers Cornish Count...
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Ducketts Caerphilly

Ducketts Caerphilly As the name suggests, this was originally a Welsh cheese, but there's quite a history of Caerphilly making on the south side of the Bristol Channel. Favoured by miners in days gone by, it...
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Six Spires Phil Rainbow at the Somerset Cheese Company has specialised in non-cows' milk cheeses since the company was founded in 2005. But cheeses such as Fosseway Fleece (ewe) and Pennard Vale (go...
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Helford Camembert

Helford Camembert Alastair Rogers and his Cornwall-based Treveador Farm Dairy have cleverly found a real niche for themselves by specialising in soft cheeses: his Helford White, Blue Horizon and Helford Blue have be...
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Beenleigh Blue Slightly crumbly, with tiny, bubbly holes. This is a rich, sweet blue ewes milk cheese that people just rave about! It's made by Robin Congdon of Ticklemore Cheese in ...
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Cremet Cremet: Officially launched in 2013, Cremet is the most recent addition to Sharpham's range of cheeses. An innovative, soft, mould ripened goats’ cheese enriched with cows’ cream, t...
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Old Burford The Bartlett brothers' run their own sheep farm at North Wootton near Shepton Mallet in Somerset. Little Ryding is made with their own organic milk. But ewes' milk isn't available ...
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Sharpham Savour with Caraway

Sharpham Savour with Caraway As a mixed milk cheese (it's made with a mixture of cows' and goats' milk) the straight version of Sharpham's 'Savour' is already a rarity. Here they really put it into a ca...
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Sharpham The Sharpham dairy is based on the Sharpham estate on the banks of the River Dart just south of Totnes in Devon. This is one of the cheese family known as 'mould-ripened', a...
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Pepperdon A soft, 'fresh' cheese, Pepperdon is made in South Devon specially for The Cheese Shed. Fresh cheeses like this are made very quickly - ready to eat in about a day - so they're always m...
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Tor This pyramid-shaped soft goats' cheese with an ash coating is from Somerset's Whitelake Dairy. Matured for 2-3 weeks. Unpasteurised / Vegetarian. About 250g.
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Devonshire Red Quicke's distinctive take on Red Leicester. A fresher cheese than traditional cheddar, their Devonshire Red retains a nuttiness, combined with a lemony creaminess and a glorious crumbly texture...
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White Heart From Pete Humphries, the talented maker of White Nancy, this delightful heart-shaped goats' cheese is similar, but has a slightly softer texture and creamier flavour. Vegetarian / Unpasteur...
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Cornish Crumbly

Cornish Crumbly Sue Proudfoot's most recent creation achieved the great accolade of being voted Best Modern British Cheese at the 2008 British Cheese Awards, and that takes some doing. It's a lightly p...
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Quicke's Elderflower Cheddar

Quicke's Elderflower Cheddar Something truly unusual comes from the brilliant Mary Quicke in the form of this Elderflower Cheddar. Delicately scented and unexpectedly delicious, this buttery three-to-four-month matured cheddar...
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Vulscombe Graham and Jo Townsend's Vulscombe goats' cheese is subtle, beautifully presented and comes in several varieties. There's plain, one with black peppercorns, one with herbs and gar...
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Cornish Gouda with Honey & Clover

Cornish Gouda with Honey & Clover Gouda is the Netherlands' great contribution to European cheese, and this sweet, mellow cheese has been famous since the 12th Century. Now a Dutch family has begun making it near Polruan in sou...
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Simply Cumin Flavouring cheese with cumin seeds is something we associate with Holland, where cumin-flavoured Gouda is sold as Komijnekaas. Many years ago I fell for this type of cheese in a big way whilst work...
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Extra Mature Wyfe of Bath

Extra Mature Wyfe of Bath Wyfe of Bath is a succulent, springy cheese which has a glowing, buttery taste. Matured for over 12 months, the extra mature is slightly harder that its younger self but still has the recognisable ...
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Ringwell A distinctive looking organic hard cheese, made from unpasteurised Jersey cows' milk. Ringwell is a dryish, crumbly yet creamy cheese with a very attractive rough, natural rind and a deep yello...
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Sharpham Hart Heart-shaped 200g version of Sharpham's famous brie-style cheese. Made with their own unpasteurised Jersey milk. Sharpham use the spelling Hart because a white hart (i.e a male deer) is th...
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Rainbow's Gold Phil Rainbow at the Somerset Cheese Company specialised in non-cows' milk cheeses since the company was founded in 2005. Then, however, he added the mellow cheddar Six Spires, and even mo...
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Bath Blue Bath Blue is a creamy, smooth blue cheese with evenly-spaced blue veins and a characteristic clean aroma - it's the only organic blue to be listed by The Cheese Shed. Organic, pasteurised,...
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Gunstone A semi-hard cheese with a light, buttery texture and a delicate goat flavour which increases with maturity. Made by a big pal of the Cheese Shed - Dave Johnson in Crediton, Devon (Norsworthy and th...
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White Nancy Pete Humphries worked for Bath Soft Cheese before setting up White Lake Cheeses, based near Glastonbury Tor in Somerset. Pete's range of handmade cheeses uses milk from a 600-strong herd ...
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Norsworthy A medium soft full fat cheese with a mild flavour which is ready in 2 weeks. At this stage it has a creamy texture; alternatively it can be left to ripen a little longer in which case it will becom...
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Fosseway Fleece

Fosseway Fleece A ewes' milk cheese made in the cheddar style by Phil Rainbow, and a very striking one thing it is too. Fleece is a pearly white, with a wonderfully silky smooth texture and clean taste. We oft...
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Extra Mature Cornish Gouda

Extra Mature Cornish Gouda One for the strong cheese enthusiasts! Giel Spierings takes his Cornish Gouda and instead of keeping it for about six months - as is the case in our regular version - matures it for two years. The ...
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Helford Blue Treveador Farm Dairy specialise in very distinctive soft cheeses. Helford Blue is a delightfully squishy soft cheese - the softest blue cheese we have. Pasteurised, vegetarian.
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Cornish Gouda with Fenugreek

Cornish Gouda with Fenugreek Gouda is the Netherlands' great contribution to European cheese, and this sweet, mellow cheese has been famous since the 12th Century. Now a Dutch family has begun making it near Polruan in sou...
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Little Wheal This exciting naturally-rinded cheese comes from Sue Proudfoot, based near Bude. Weighing in at 300g, Little Wheal is matured for 4-6 weeks, resulting in a characterful cheese with a creamy texture...
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Ford Farm Cave-Aged Goats' Cheese

Ford Farm Cave-Aged Goats' Cheese Ford Farm - whose cheddar is matured in the Wookey Hole caves - are now producing a goats' milk version. The making process is very much as per cheddar so the style of the cheese follows on fro...
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Ogleshield Sometimes one cheese leads to another. Here's the story: Once Upon a Time Jamie Montgomery - maker of the famous cheddar - played host to two young Americans keen to learn about chees...
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Devon Smoake This is Curworthy's Devon Oke, only smoked. Devon Smoake, geddit? So: what we have here is a sweet, supple-textured cheese matured for six months, then smoked over oak chips. All Ra...
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Helford White Treveador Dairy's cheeses are made by Alastair Rogers and Bernadette Newman on a farm which runs down to the banks of the beautiful Helford River, on The Lizard in Cornwall. Helford Wh...
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Godminster Heart

Godminster Heart Godminster's stroke of genius has been to make a heart shaped version of their fabulous Organic Vintage Cheddar. This comes in two sizes - seen above - 400g or 200g. We also have the ...
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Harbourne Blue Powerful blue goats cheese with a creamy, melting texture. Made by Robin Congdon on his farm overlooking the River Dart, this is one of the superb family of Ticklemore cheeses that includes t...
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Morn Dew Cheese Shed favourites White Lake Cheese, from Somerset, are now making two 'washed rind' cheeses (the other is Rachel, made with goats' milk, which we also stock). The washing pro...
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Extra Mature Beenleigh Blue

Extra Mature Beenleigh Blue In the description of 'regular' four-month matured Beenleigh Blue I say that people rave about this cheese. Well, they do - and they have been for over 30 years since Robin Congdon decided ...
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