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Haytor 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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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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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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Burns 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...
£6.49
Smokey Duke Smokey Duke Here's something unusual: a smoked brie. It's been quite a few years since anything like this was made in the Westcountry, so we're pleased to see it. Made by Curds & Croust in Redr...
£7.38
Meldon 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 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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White Heart White Heart From Pete Humphries, the talented maker of White Nancy, this delightful heart shaped goat's cheese is similar, but has a slightly softer texture and creamier flavour. Unpasteurised, vegetar...
£10.82
Rebel Nun Rebel Nun Rebel Nun is a soft, oozy and super-flavoursome cheese reminiscent of a French cheese like Époisses. Much of its quality comes from rind-washing with ale, but - unusually - it also includes ...
£9.99
Tunworth 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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White Nancy 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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Pennard Vale 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 clo...
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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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Mouse's Favourite: True Blue Mouse's Favourite: True Blue Mouse's Favourite started in 2017, with the aim of creating the best vegan cheese they could, created simply and from good ingedients. Only cashew nuts, salt, water and starter bacteria are use...
£9.99
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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Morn Dew 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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Cornish Gouda with Cumin Cornish Gouda with Cumin Giel Spierings' version of the classic Dutch komijnekaas. The creation of Cornish Gouda is a wonderful and inspiring story of recent years. It began when the young son of a Dutch family fa...
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Devon Blue Devon Blue An excellent blue cow's 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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Keltic Gold 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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Cranborne Blue Cranborne Blue Cranborne Blue is the first blue cheese made by the energetic Book & Bucket Cheese Company, based just outside Wimborne in Dorset. It came out of a partnership with a local farm that was strugg...
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Curworthy 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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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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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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Rosary With Garlic & Parsley Rosary With Garlic & Parsley 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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Tor Tor This pyramid-shaped soft goat's cheese with an ash coating is from Somerset's White Lake Cheese. Matured for 2-3 weeks. Each pyramid weighs around 200g. Unpasteurised, vegetarian.
£9.53
Sharpham Brie Heart Sharpham Brie Heart Heart-shaped 300g version of Sharpham's famous brie style cheese, made with their own unpasteurised Jersey milk. Unpasteurised, vegetarian.
£6.99
Dorstone Dorstone This is a moist, fluffy-textured goat's milk cheese with an ash coating made by Charlie Westhead at Neal's Yard Dairy. The cheese-making business - which separated from the London shop of s...
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Sharpham Brie 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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Helford White 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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Bagborough Brie Bagborough Brie This little 200g brie is made with the same delicious organic Guernsey milk which White Lake use for Solstice and Morn Dew. The dairy has brought all their many years of experience with soft cheese...
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Smoked Wedmore 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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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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Devon Maid 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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Pendragon 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 cheese yet, this could ...
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Cornish Yarg 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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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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Pavé Cobble 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...
£9.92
Helford Blue Helford Blue Treveador Farm Dairy specialise in very distinctive soft cheeses. This one's actually softest in its 1kg version - the small, whole 200g cheeese is a bit firmer. It's a real favouriote of o...
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Little Wheal 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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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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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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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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Eve 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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Nanny Florrie 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 -...
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Rachel 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's Pete H...
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Chipple Chipple For over 30 years Curworthy Cheese has been based near Okehampton in north Devon. Milk comes fresh each morning, straight after milking, from a single herd based at Dunstaple Farm near Holsworthy. ...
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Harbourne Blue 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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Driftwood 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! Each cheese weighs around 200g....
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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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Rosary 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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Winslade 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 ...
£10.99
Devon Smoake 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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Stithians Stithians The latest cheese from Lynher Dairies revives an old cheese name (actually it's their local village) - one that we remember from back when The Cheese Shed started, but which then fell by the wa...
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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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Gert Lush Gert Lush This organic, bloomy-rinded cheese comes from the same team who make Rebel Nun, who see it as somewhere between a French camembert and a Saint-Marcellin. The rind is light, texture will approach go...
£9.99
Wyfe of Bath 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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Katherine Katherine Firm goat's cheese washed with Somerset Cider Brandy, made by Pete Humphries of Somerset's White Lake Cheese. Each one weighs around 250g. Unpasteurised, not vegetarian.
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Westcombe Red 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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Bath Blue 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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Extra Mature Keen's Cheddar Extra Mature Keen's Cheddar This Extra Mature version of Keen's has been matured for at least two years - ensuring an even bigger flavour for a cheese we'd already think of as our strongest cheddar!  The Keen...
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Simply Cumin 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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Cornish Kern 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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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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Sheep Rustler 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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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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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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Dartmoor Chilli Heart Dartmoor Chilli Heart Made by celebrated north Devon maker Rachel Stephens, this is a version of her 'Curworthy' but with a bit of fun provided by added chillies! They're local too - very local in fact - gro...
£11.99
Truffler 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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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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Cremet 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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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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Keen's Cheddar 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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Pennard Red Pennard Red This cheese has a smooth, close texture with the traditional golden appearance of Red Leicester - created by the addition of annatto to the milk. This has quite a long tradition in the UK and ...
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Solstice 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...
£9.06
Pepperdon 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 ...
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Sharpham Camembert Sharpham Camembert New for 2022. Sharpham have taken the best part of a year to develop this camembert, marking 40 years of cheesemaking by the banks of the River Dart - and of course nodding stylistically to the dai...
£7.49
Six Spires 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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Parke 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...
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Kelston Park 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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Capricorn 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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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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Dorset Red 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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Gunstone 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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Extra Mature Wyfe Of Bath Extra Mature Wyfe Of Bath Wyfe Of Bath comes from Park Farm - near Bath - where farmer Graham Padfield, son Hugh and team make a set of organic cheeses that started, back in the 90s, with the original 'Bath Soft Cheese&...
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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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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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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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Beenleigh Blue 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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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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Little Ryding 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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Norsworthy 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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Washbourne Washbourne Washbourne is a semi-firm ewe's 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,...
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Trendlebere Trendlebere Exclusive to The Cheese Shed, Trendlebere is a beautiful smoked, and quite soft, goats' cheese, made as a very neat whole cheese of about 700g. It's mild and has a beautiful light sprin...
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The English Pecorino The English Pecorino This creamy textured, semi-hard ewe's milk cheese has a beautifully well-rounded and nutty but relatively subtle flavour - and an eye-catching yellow rind. English Pecorino is a multi-award-win...
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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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Drogo 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...
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Mouse's Favourite: Aged Classic Mouse's Favourite: Aged Classic This Aged Classic is matured for a few weeks longer than the other Mouse's Favourite cheeses, resulting in a drier, firmer texture and deeper flavour. Mouse's Favourite started in 2017,...
£8.99
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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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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Smoked Wordsworth Smoked Wordsworth Wordsworth is a rich, cow's milk Gouda-style cheese, with deep buttery notes and nutty sweetness. In this version, the Book and Bucket Cheese Company have it made in a small 1kg size with a dis...
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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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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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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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The Vegan Three The Vegan Three All three vegan cheeses from 'Mouse's Favourite' in one box! Their Camembert - which has a coat of the same sort of mould you'd find on a 'real' one - is one of the best veg...
£26.99
Bovey Straight Bovey Straight We're very pleased with this. It's a north Devon-made cheese which the dairy generally sells at five months old, but which we mature - on the wooden shelves in our shop - to ten months, at ...
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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...
£10.49
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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Cotswold Blue 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 ...
£7.49
Ticklemore 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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Cornish Gouda with Italian Herbs Cornish Gouda with Italian Herbs Made by a Dutch family who relocated to south east Cornwall, Cornish Gouda comes in about five different stages of maturity, and also in several flavoured versions. This one features Italian herbs....
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Cerney Ash 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...
£11.99
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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Ford Farm Cave-Aged Goat's Cheese Ford Farm Cave-Aged Goat's Cheese Ford Farm - whose cheddar is matured in the Wookey Hole caves - also produce a goat's milk version. The making process is very much as per cheddar so the style of the cheese follows on from tha...
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Wootton White 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...
£6.38
Devon Oke 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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Melbury 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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Merry Wyfe 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 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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Pennard Smoked Pennard Smoked This - a smoked version of Pennard Vale goat's cheese - is a firm, pale coloured cheese that has a close, smooth, creamy texture. On smoking the flavour of this goat's cheese develops a ric...
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Cornish Blue 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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Posbury Posbury A medium soft cheese with garlic, onion, ginger, horseradish and paprika. Made by Dave Johnson of Crediton, Devon. Pictured: some of Dave's goats. Unpasteurised, vegetarian.
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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.   Pasteurised, vegetarian.
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La Fresca Margarita La Fresca Margarita This is on its own amongst our cheeses. As a fresh cheese (made and ready to eat quickly) it is bound to be soft and light-tasting, but La Fresca Margarita is very delicate and super-soft (it&...
£8.80
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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Hardy's 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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Old Burford 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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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'Évêque or Époisses, bu...
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Mouse's Favourite: Camembert Mouse's Favourite: Camembert Mouse's Favourite started in 2017, with the aim of creating the best vegan cheese they could, created simply and from good ingedients. Only cashew nuts, salt, water and starter bacteria are use...
£8.99
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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Millstone Millstone A hard ewe's 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 Fosse Way Fleece, this is a ...
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Francis 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 washes th...
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Ogleshield 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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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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Smokey Burns 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...
£7.26
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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Miss Wenna 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...
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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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Cornish Blue 1kg (16cm) Cornish Blue 1kg (16cm) This wheel of Cornish Blue is cut down from a 2kg truckle, giving a 1kg wheel half the height of the original cheese. Note: some cheeses develop a pink-brown appearance when cut. This is just a...
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Belstone 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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Sharpham Savour Sharpham Savour I first encountered this cheese from Sharpham at their open day. It's a washed curd cheese (the method associated with Dutch cheeses), but most excitingly it mixes Sharpham's own Jersey cow...
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