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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 version...
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Pitchfork Cheddar

Pitchfork Cheddar Pitchfork Cheddar is a relatively new cheese but its makers - Todd and Maugan Trethowan - intend it to be as traditional as they can possibly make it. A new-old cheese, if you like. The brother...
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Fosse Way Fleece

Fosse Way Fleece A ewe's milk cheese made in the cheddar style by Phil Rainbow, and a very striking thing it is too. Fosse Way Fleece is a pearly white, with a wonderfully silky smooth texture and clean taste. ...
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Westcombe Red Not quite the only unpasteurised Red Leicester - there is now one called Sparkenhoe being made in Leicestershire itself. But Westcombe Red was the one that brought real farmhouse Red Leicester back...
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Quicke's Double Devonshire

Quicke's 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; Quicke's vers...
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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, very soft...
£7.50

Ticklemore Ticklemore goat's cheese is light and delicate with small holes. The taste is mild, fresh, sweet... it's a subtle goat's cheese. Originally made by Robin Congdon of Ticklemore...
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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 ...
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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 goat's 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 a clos...
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Morn Dew Cheese Shed favourites White Lake Cheese, from Somerset, make a number of washed rind cheeses. The washing process affects texture (softer, springier), taste (fruity), smell (more!) and the na...
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Driftwood This log-shaped soft goat's cheese with an ash coating and a geotrichum rind is from Somerset's White Lake Cheese. Matured for 2-3 weeks, then ready for you! There's also a pyramid-shap...
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Dartmoor Chilli

Dartmoor Chilli The first Westcountry artisan cheese that we came across to feature added chilli, this cheese brings together the talents of cheese maker Rachel Stephens and the Dartmoor Chili farm, based near Ash...
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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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Katherine Firm goat's cheese washed with Somerset Cider Brandy, made by Pete Humphries of Somerset's White Lake Cheese. 250g, unpasteurised, not vegetarian
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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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Rosary Rosary is a fresh, creamy goat's cheese with a mousse-like texture and a natural acidity. Winner of the Supreme Champion Award at the British Cheese Awards 2014, it is made from pasteurised mil...
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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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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 is no...
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Nanny Florrie A miniature goat's milk brie made by Curds & Croust in Liskeard, Cornwall, where the cheesemaker is Martin Gaylard. Martin's father John used to make cheeses from the brie family, too -...
£7.80

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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Little Ryding Hand made by James and David Bartlett in their dairy at North Wootton, near Shepton Mallet. Little Ryding, made with unpasteurised organic ewe's milk from their own herd, has a creamy texture a...
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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. Meld...
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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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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 milk, it's also...
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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. Cheese...
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Six Spires Phil Rainbow at the Somerset Cheese Company has specialised in non-cow's milk cheeses since the company was founded in 2005. But cheeses such as Fosse Way Fleece (ewe) and Pennard Vale (goat) w...
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Quicke's Devonshire Red

Quicke's Devonshire Red The Quickes' 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 tex...
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Eve Eve is a cute little beauty of a cheese. Made by Pete Humphries of Somerset's White Lake Cheese, this small and meltingly soft goat's cheese is washed in Somerset Cider Brandy and then wrap...
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Pavé Cobble Pete Humphries, of White Lake Cheese in Somerset, is a maker we're always interested in. So when this mini ewe's milk pyramid appeared it was something we needed to stock. The deliciously s...
£10.99

Sharpham Rustic with Chives & Garlic

Sharpham Rustic with Chives & Garlic 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. Experiments ...
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Keltic Gold Also sold at Fortnum & Mason and top cheese retailers Paxton & Whitfield, so if you assumed that this cheese from Sue Proudfoot of Whalesborough Farm in Bude, Cornwall, has real character a...
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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! Wedmore has a line...
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Gorwydd Caerphilly

Gorwydd Caerphilly Todd and Maugan Trethowan learned how to make this cheese from Chris Duckett, last of the line of the Duckett family who'd made the cheese over the Bristol Channel in Somerset for generations.&...
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Sharpham Brie 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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Smoked Pendragon

Smoked Pendragon We've all from time to time felt the need for a smoked buffalo milk cheese, haven't we? I think we have. And when it happens, Smoked Pendragon may be the only solution. This superb cheese i...
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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 mild, very ...
£7.50

Sharpham Savour with Caraway

Sharpham Savour with Caraway As a mixed milk cheese (it's made with a mixture of cow's and goat's milk) the straight version of Sharpham's Savour is already a rarity. Here they really put it into a category of ...
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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 ...
£10.79

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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Miss Muffet Describing cheeses is difficult! In my struggle to do that, I may be guilty of overusing the term 'distinctive'... but when it comes to Sue Proudfoot's cheeses, that adjective definitel...
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Helford White Treveador Dairy's cheeses were originally made by Alastair Rogers and Bernadette Newman on a farm which ran down to the banks of the Helford River, but are now made in Helston. Helford...
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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 for ove...
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Rainbow's Gold Phil Rainbow at the Somerset Cheese Company specialised in non-cow's milk cheeses since the company was founded in 2005. Then, however, he added the mellow cheddar Six Spires, and even more rec...
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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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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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Cotswold Blue The Weaver family has been farming in the Cotswolds for three generations, and in the south west since before 1570. They are very proud to be organic farmers, and set a lot of store by the welfare ...
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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 cheesemakin...
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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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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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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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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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Miss Wenna A miniature brie made by Curds & Croust in Liskeard, Cornwall, where the cheesemaker is Martin Gaylard. Martin's father John used to make cheeses from the brie family, too - so cheesemaking...
£4.96

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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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, but m...
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Semi Mature Cornish Gouda

Semi Mature 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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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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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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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 by Ford Farm - based on the Ashley Chase Estate near Dorchester, they are ...
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Sheep Rustler This 800g ewe's milk cheese from White Lake Dairy shares its recipe with the goat's milk Rachel. A sweet, nutty and hard-ish cheese, it has its rind washed in brine as it matures. Sheep Rus...
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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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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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Cricket St Thomas Brie

Cricket St Thomas Brie Creamy, with a mild, fresh flavour. Made in Cricket St Thomas, Somerset - for another cheese by the same maker, see Cricket St Thomas Camembert. Vegetarian, pasteurised
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Tor This pyramid-shaped soft goat's cheese with an ash coating is from Somerset's White Lake Cheese. Matured for 2-3 weeks. Unpasteurised, vegetarian. About 200g.
£10.89

Belstone From Stockbeare Farm in North Devon, this cheese is related to Curworthy and Devon Oke. Essentially it's the vegetarian member of the family (with Devon Oke the more mature one), but all three ...
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Wootton White From David and James Bartlett's Wootton Organic Dairy in Somerset comes this lovely Greek-style soft ewe's milk cheese. People observing a similarity to feta would not be wrong, though to o...
£4.99

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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Cornish Yarg 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 and unique cheese. Full whee...
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Solstice Made by White Lake Cheese in Somerset, this is a particularly special washed rind cheese which brings together the extra-creaminess of milk from Guernsey cows with Somerset Cider Brandy - used to w...
£10.39

Beenleigh Blue Slightly crumbly, with tiny, bubbly holes. This is a rich, sweet blue ewe's milk cheese that people just rave about! It's made by Robin Congdon of Ticklemore Cheese in South ...
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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 Rachel Stephen...
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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 wrap...
£9.99

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 Cricket St Thom...
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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, Helford Blue and Helford Sunrise have...
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Wyfe of Bath Succulent, nutty and creamy. This semi-hard cheese is redolent of buttercups and summer meadows. It is made by placing the curd in cloth lined baskets, it retains the basket shape and has a soft li...
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Quicke's Goat's Cheese

Quicke's Goat's Cheese Renowned makers Quicke's drew on their cheddar-making experience for this goat's cheese, created with the help of Val Bines, who offered her expert help and advice to Mary and the team over...
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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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Rachel Cheese Shed favourites White Lake Cheese, from Somerset, make a number of 'washed rind' cheeses. Rachel is a goat's milk version, whilst Morn Dew uses cow's milk. White Lake...
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Burns A traditional halloumi-style cheese which has an amazing depth of flavour and creates perfect caramelisation when cooked. The key aspect of this recipe is that once the curds have been moulded, the...
£4.99

Devon Maid 'Brie with a bite' is what cheesemaker Rachel Stephens was aiming for when she started to make this - her first soft cheese - around 2016. Originally a response to all her market and food f...
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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, very soft...
£7.50

Smart's Single Gloucester

Smart's 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 cow's cheese but without the red annato colouring used in the ...
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Harbourne Blue Powerful blue goat's cheese with a creamy, melting texture. Made by Ben Harris who took over from Robin Congdon, this is one of the superb family of Ticklemore cheeses that includes Devon ...
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Smokey Burns Burns - a ewe's milk halloumi-style cheese is cold smoked for 15 hours over oak chips that are dampened down with scrumpy cider. The aroma when this cheese is cooking is to die for! Made by...
£5.79

Aged Duckett's Caerphilly

Aged Duckett's Caerphilly Chris Duckett's family had been making Caerphilly in Wedmore, Somerset, since the 1920s. When he gave up farming in the 90s production moved to the nearby Westcombe dairy, and it's been mad...
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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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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 and...
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Keen's Cheddar Matured in cloth for over 12 months, Keen's use 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. Ke...
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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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Hardy's The Book & Bucket Cheese Company was formed in Dorset in 2019, specialising in sheep's milk cheeses, using milk from farms local to their base in Wimborne. This nine-month matured...
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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 gruyère type recipe - is different, so expect...
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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 regula...
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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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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. On the soft side of firm, it's a...
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Extra Mature Gunstone

Extra Mature Gunstone Whereas regular Gunstone is matured for two months, this waits for eight months before it's sold, by which time it has acquired a sweet, strong, deep flavour. The colour has also deepened to a ...
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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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Melbury Inspired by Ossau-Iraty, from the French Pyrenees, this hard ewe's milk cheese is made by Woodlands Dairy near Blandford in Dorset. The dairy - which is part of the nearby Orchid Meadow Farm - ...
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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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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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Cremet Cremet: Officially launched in 2013, Cremet is an innovative, soft, mould ripened goat’s cheese enriched with cow's cream - there is nothing else like it produced in the UK. It has a subt...
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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 ewe's milk isn't available all y...
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Duckett's Caerphilly

Duckett's 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 can a...
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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 of goa...
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Sharpham Rustic

Sharpham Rustic Sharpham are near neighbours of Ticklemore Cheese in South Devon, and between them they produce a remarkable range of marvellous products. Rustic is semi-hard, matured for approximately 6-8 wee...
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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 depth a...
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