Christmas Cheeseboard

First made in the early 1980’s by Alan and Jenny Gray (Yarg is their surname reversed!) and based on a 13^th century recipe, it is a mix between Caerphilly and Wensleydale, although it is distinctly creamier, and has an edible jacket of nettle leaves. This gives the cheese a herby flavour as well as an attractive appearance which is very popular on our cheese wedding cakes! It has a beautiful delicate, grassy flavour, with notes of mushroom and asparagus in the rind. The nettles are harvested in May and frozen for use throughout the year. The cheese is made from the pasteurised milk of a mixed herd of Ayrshire, Jersey and Friesian cows.

A bloomy-rinded crumbly goats cheese from Devon. Creamy and sweet in the mouth with a delicious fresh citrusy aroma and a delicate goat's milk flavour.
A wonderful white, light cheese - crumble over new season asparagus and wash down with a glass of fruity Rosé.

This Petit Munster hails from the Alsace region and has been produced there for almost 1000 years. Traditionally produced by monks, the name is a derivative of the Latin for monastery. Traditionally eaten with boiled potatoes and a sprinkling of cumin seeds.

The Montagnolo is a slightly salted triple-crème blue cheese. This means that the bluing throughout is quite light and combined with the deliciously creamy texture, it gives an ultra-smooth and very moreish flavour.

One of everyone's favourites both in the shop and out.

A soft, bloomy-rinded cheese with a pale yellow, buttery paste.  More delicate than a French Brie and less mushroomy and vegetably, the sweet grassy pastures, sown with clover, on which the cows graze reflected in the taste of the cheese. Made at Kirkham farm, near Lower Slaughter, where the Weavers have been farming organically for three generations. Every morning the milk travels the five meters from the milking shed to the creamery and is pasteurised but not standardised, so it retains its unique and variable character. Simon Weaver has won a number of prestigious awards for his cheese.