Appleby's Double Gloucester
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Double Gloucester is a semi-hard cheese and made from whole milk and is made using a mixture of morning and evening milk, hence the name, Double Gloucester.
Traditionally Double Gloucester is a raw, semi-hard cheese which has been made in Gloucestershire since the 16th century. It was traditionally made as a large wheel with a thickrind to withstand annual cheese rolling ceremonies; when cheeses were rolled down the hills in Gloucestershire to protect the grazing rights.
Appleby's of Hawkstone's gourmet Double Gloucester is made in large flattish cylinders which are cloth wrapped. They have a lovely orange color which is not as vivid as some other cheeses which are dyed with annatto. The c...
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Beenleigh Blue
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Beenleigh Blue has a very thin natural rind and comes wrapped in foil. The blue veins from a uneven, rather patchy, pattern mainly in the slightly crumbly paste. The aroma of this gourmet cheese is full of tasty nuts and mold and is similar to Roquefort.
The strong flavor hits the palate with upfront fruitiness of wine, and nuts and fades from a sweet and creamy mellow stage to a mushroomy finish which is rather a surprising. The well-flavored gourmet Beenleigh Blue comes from ewe's milk from the green valleys of Devon....
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Berkswell Cheese
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Berkswell sheep's milk cheese is hand made at Ram Hall Farm, situated on the edge of Berkswell village, close to Coventry in England, from where the cheese takes its name. In 1989 sheep milking began at Ram Hall with a flock of or East Friesian and Poll Dorset ewes, which has now grown to 900. Ewe's milk is excellent for making quality cheese, with higher solid content than cow's and goat's milk.
Berkswell is a magnificent looking gourmet cheese with distinctive ridges and unusual markings on the thick rind. It weighs around 6 lbs and takes around 4 months to mature. With a wonderfully clean, firm bite, it is sweet and nutty with a hint of caramel with a definite tang on the finish. Its fir...
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Blue Stilton
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Blue Stilton of just Stilton is England's only name-protected cheese. The name-control law stipulates that the cheese can only be manufactured in a specific area with milk from that area. Recipe and aging guidelines are laid down by the Stilton Cheese Makers' Association. The finished product is however not controlled and therefore Stilton's of various qualities can be found.
The interior of our high quality Blue Stilton is crumbly when young, softening and darkening at the rind as it matures. It is a lovely creamy ivory color with well-spread blue veining growing from the center outward. The aroma is sharply nutty and the flavor is full of mellow nuts and fruit. The flavor strengthens as i...
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Bonchester
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Bonchester is a well-flavored soft gourmet cheese from the Scottish border in Bonchester Bridge in Roxburghshire and is one of the few British cheeses to qualify for the European Union designation of protected origin (P.D.O.).
It is made in a small, round, shallow disc with a white rind which develops a few freckles.
The cheese is made of Jersey milk and can be compared to Camembert, with the following differences: ticker in texture, a buttery taste with a pronounced flowery flavor.
The Bonchester resembles Coulommiers in its production; it is molded into a thicker shape and could ripen unevenly, resulting in becoming runny beneath the rind.
Experts call Bonchester a gourmet cheese; one ...
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Caerphilly
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Caerphilly is a traditional Welsh cheese named after the town and county in South Wales, where it was first produced by local farmers for domestic use in order to use up surplus milk.
Gorwydd, a family farm, just outside the village of Llanddewi Brefi, in Ceredigion, West Wales is the home of the Gorwydd Caerphilly, established in 1996. Gorwydd Caerphilly is a mature caerphilly made to a traditional recipe, using raw unpasteurised milk and GM-free traditional animal rennet.
This cheese is matured on the farm for 2 months and exhibits a fresh lemony taste with a creamy texture to the outer and a firmer but moist inner.
The Welsh say that a territorial cheese such as Caerphilly is developed...
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Cheshire
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$10.06
Cheshire cheese has a loose and crumbly texture, much more friable and moist than many other firm cheeses. The cheese has a mild and lightly salty taste which is attributed to the salty soil of the Cheshire plain. Mature cheeses acquire more piquancy with age.
Cheshire could be England's oldest cheese. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book and its origins go back to Roman times....
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Cornish Yarg
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Cornish Yarg is an attractive little Cornish cheese and has a unique covering of local nettle leaves which gives it a slightly vegetal or herby taste. Using nettles in this way was once quite common in this part of the world but the practice largely died out in the last century.
The name Yarg does not relate to old Cornish but is simply 'gray' spelt backwards. Gray was the name of the cheese-maker who developed the cheese from some old recipes found in an attic.
The nettles give the cheese a grayish-green rind which contrasts with the very white paste. The texture is similar to Caerphilly but the flavor is not really the same. The young cheese is fresh and lemony with a touch of herbs. Old...
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Cotswold
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Cotswold is a Double Gloucester with chopped onions and chives blended into the cheese. Cotswolds is a region in Southwestern England. The Cotswold cheese is also just called 'Double Gloucester with Chives' or 'Pub Cheese'.
It is a smooth, cheddar-like cheese with chives and onions. In the pub it is usually served with toast or rustic bread. The mellow cheese with the strong flavors of the chives and onions make Cotswold a good company for the more softer and milder cheese on your cheese board.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedge of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Double Gloucester Appleby's
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Double Gloucester is a semi-hard cheese and made from whole milk and is made using a mixture of morning and evening milk, hence the name, Double Gloucester.
Traditionally Double Gloucester is a raw, semi-hard cheese which has been made in Gloucestershire since the 16th century. It was traditionally made as a large wheel with a thickrind to withstand annual cheese rolling ceremonies; when cheeses were rolled down the hills in Gloucestershire to protect the grazing rights.
Appleby's of Hawkstone's gourmet Double Gloucester is made in large flattish cylinders which are cloth wrapped. They have a lovely orange color which is not as vivid as some other cheeses which are dyed with annatto. The c...
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Harbourne Blue
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Robin Congdon at the Ticklemore Cheese Company in Devon in the South of England is keen to promote the virtues of goats' milk cheeses and with Harbourne Blue he has managed to produce a delicate cheese.
This gourmet cheese has a characteristically white interior and a crumbly texture. The flavor is sweet and mild, somewhat mellow and could be easily combined with a nice desert wine....
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Huntsman
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Huntsman is the marriage of two delicious British classics; Double Gloucester and Blue Stilton, brought together through a complex layering process. Creamy, forceful Stilton is sandwiched between an exterior of mellow, Double Gloucester. The result is an excellent flavor combination that is as delicious as it is beautiful.
With this 5-layered Huntsman you will take full advantage of the combination of Double Gloucester and Blue Stilton, cut in pieces of 12 ounces. If we cut it much smaller, you will end up with very thin tall wedges....
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Lanark Blue
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Lanark Blue is hand-made farmhouse cheedse made from raw ewe's milk; rennet suitable for vegetarians is used.
Humphrey Errington began farming in 1982 on a small farm called Walston Brahead at Ogcastle near Carnwath in Scotland and in 1985 the first Lanark Blue was produced and sold. The sheep Humphrey has 400 sheep grazing on hillsides rich in herbs and clover a thousand feet above sea level, overlooking the valley of the upper Clyde.
The cheese varies throughout the year which is said to be due to the seasonal changes in the animals diet; the cheese is creamy and medium flavored in the spring and becomes very full flavored and wild in the winter. The paste is a mottled ivory white with b...
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Lancashire
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This traditional handcrafted Lancashire Cheese has been produced on the Beesley Farm in Goosnargh, for 3 generations. The cheese is known as Mrs Kirkham's Lancashire Cheese as she has made it herself for the past 25 years as part of a small family business.
The raw milk used in our cheese is produced on the farm from their own herd of Friesian Holstein cows. The cheese is matured for at least 6 weeks before it leaves the farm, this produces a cheese that is mild, creamy and slightly crumbly. The cheese continues to mature for up to 12 months which produces a fuller and more rounded flavor.
All the cheeses are cloth bound and butter finished. This helps to develop a unique rind which encaps...
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Lincolnshire Poacher
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Simon and Tim Jones produce the Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese at their Ulceby Grange Farm from the milk of their herd of 230 Holstein cows. The farm is situated on the edge of Lincolnshire Wolds on the English East Coast.
Lincolnshire Poacher is made from raw milk making use of traditional methods. The recipe for Lincolnshire Poacher cheese is loosely based on that of traditional West Country cheddar, but like all farmhouse cheddars, the cheese has its unique texture and flavor, however there may be daily and seasonal variations.
In summer, Lincolnshire Poacher is fruity, with rich sweet flavors whereas in winter, the flavor tends to be more savory, sometimes almost meaty. Each day only one ...
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Llangloffan
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Llangloffan Farmhouse Cheese is renowned around the world. Leon and Joan Downey settled in Llangloffan in Wales from Cheshire in the spring of 1977. Both decided to face the challenge of making cheese from a run-down, allegedly non-viable Welsh smallholding. Their ambition to build an enterprise which produced high quality handmade traditional raw cow's milk cheese was fulfilled and the Downeys received the 'Best Welsh Cheese' Award more than once.
Llangloffan Farmhouse Cheese is full fat yet dry, almost crumbly. The rind color is yellowish and the imprint of the cloth in which the cheese is bound is visible. The firm cheese melts on your tongue. The cheese ripens maximally for 10 months an...
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Oak Smoked Cheddar
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This Oak Smoked Cheddar is made by the Quicke's family in Devon in the United Kingdom, this is their 12-15-month mature well-falvored cheddar which has been traditionally smoked for 3-4 hours over oak chips from the farm's woodland.
This gourmet cheese has a strong flavor of both cheese and smoking and a slightly dry texture. The truckles are cut into 3 lbs pieces prior to smoking as this ensures the flavor will infuse throughout the cheese.
No artificial flavorings are added and this cheese cannot be compared with those products which have been made with smoke flavoring and then rubbed with paprika to give the impression that they have been smoked. Quickes Oak Smoked Cheddar is naturally ...
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Red Dragon
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Red Dragon is a Welsh Cheddar with wholegrain mustard seeds and Welsh ale, coated in a bright red wax. This gourmet cheese combines the subtle sharpness and depth of natural mustard with the mild, piquant taste notes of the Welsh ale and traditional Cheddar.
Red Dragon is a buttery and spicy cheese with plenty of bite, but is not too hot, not only do the mustard seeds give Red Dragon its marvelous flavor, but also its texture. Red Dragon is aged for 3 months.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 pound....
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Red Leicester
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Red Leicester is the only cheese left of cheeses made in region of Leicestershire. Traditionally made like a flat cartwheel, it has a thin, dry rind.
The paste is dense textured and quite chewy. It has a lightly sweet aroma with nuts and a mild flavor with just a touch of lemony piquancy.
They added carrot juice to give the cheese its vibrant orange color and so it became known as Red Leicester. The cheese is now colored with annatto....
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Sage Derby
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Sage Derby is a cheddar type gourmet cheese made using leaf sage for flavor, and colored using chlorophyll (plant coloring) to give a green marbled finish. The finely chopped sage leaf gives a subtle extra flavor. Sage Derby is matured for around 12 weeks as per mild cheddar.
In the seventeenth century, the custom of adding sage to Derby cheese began. Sage was valued for its health-giving properties; it was good for the digestion and thus Sage Derby was born. Sage Derby was originally consumed at harvest time and Christmas. A colorful gourmet cheese for the cheese board.
Sage Derby, one of the oldest British gourmet cheeses and one of the original additive cheeses; is unique with the sage ...
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