OUR CHEESE RANGE
Our range includes over 30 different varieties from Britain and around the world.
If you are looking for a specific cheese we will be more than happy to try and get hold of it for you.
BLUES
Colston Basset Stilton P V
Stilton makers at Colston Basset Dairy in Nottinghamshire, the best on the market in our opinion, and at its prime in the festive month. Made by one of the last independent cheese makers.
Baby Colston Basset Stilton P V
Stilton makers at Colston Basset Dairy in Nottinghamshire, the best on the market in our opinion, and at its prime in the festive month. Made by one of the last independent cheese makers.
Montagnolo Affine P V
Made in Algau Southern Germany. Supreme champion 2012 & winner of the world cheese awards 2013.
Harrogate Blue P
Harrogate Blue matured for a minimum of 10 weeks. This is the optimum time for the cheese to develop exactly the right depth of flavour and creaminess. This Cheese scooped two golds at the Global Cheese Awards and in 2017 it won a Super Gold and was judged to be the 11th best cheese in the world at the World Cheese awards.
Buffalo Blue
Buffalo Blue delivers a well-balanced blue flavour, which is complimented with a creamy yet light, nearing cleansing, effect on the palate. It’s an extremely special cheese.
RED LEICESTER
Sparkenhole Red Leicester U P
Sparkenhoe is made in a totally authentic way using their own unpasteurised milk to an old recipe discovered by Jo and David Clarke Sparkenhoe Red Leicester Cheese is a smooth, nutty-tasting cheese suitable as an everyday eating cheese or alongside others on a cheeseboard. Made in Leicestershire.
Red Storm P V
Red Storm delivers a punchy, flavour some and creamy texture. Matured for 18 months, this waxed aged Red Leicester tastes just as delicious as other favourites from the Snowdonia Cheese Company.
The perfect cheese and biscuits
FLAVOURED CHEESES
Wensleydale with Cranberries P V
Creamy, crumbly & full of flavor Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, carefully combined with the delicate fruity succulence of pure, sweet cranberries a popular seasonal choice.
Wensleydale with Ginger P V
The oriental piquancy of stem ginger perfectly complements the freshness of Yorkshire wensleydale cheese, making an unusual and delicious cheese with sweet tasting afternotes.
White Stilton with Apricots P V
A popular delicious combination of fresh White Stilton with dried Apricot pieces that add a fruity sweetness. With Apricots added, a long refreshing after-taste.
Mexicana P V
The UK’s No1 spicy Cheddar combines a fiery mix of bell, jalapeno and chilli peppers blended with farmhouse cheddar and Mexican spices.
Innkeepers Choice P V
Mature cheddar with the addition of pickled onions and chives, makes an idea ploughman’s addition.
EWE AND GOATS MILK CHEESES
Mrs Bells Blue P V
Mrs Bell’s Blue is considered to be one of the best ewes’ milk blue cheeses in Europe. The milk’s meadowy sweetness and the cheese’s saltiness.
Rachel P V
A semi-hard goats’ cheese with a washed rind. The taste is mellow with a lingering, delicate flavour of goat’s milk.
Buche Ruffec P
Classic goats milk log with white rind. This cheese is adored by all lovers of good cheese.
Smoked Cheeses
Dorset Red P V
A delectable and distinctive smoked cheese made exclusively from the rich creamy milk from cows which graze the lush pastures at Ford Farm.
Applewood Vintage P V
A smooth, creamy, smoky cheese made from premium West Country Farmhouse Cheddar hand dusted in paprika.
CHEDDAR’S
Cave aged Wookey Hole Farmhouse cheddar
This extremely tasty award winning West Country Farmhouse Cheddar is hand produced in the heart of West Dorset. It uses cows milk from local herds and is made to a traditional recipe. The cheese is then encased in the outer cloth, it is then left to mature in the ideal conditions of the caves at Wookey Hole.
Coastal Cheddar P V
Rugged texture, salty yet sweet flavour and sun-kissed golden hue. Coastal is a surprise with its distinctive ‘crunch ‘caused by the calcium crystals which form naturally in the cheese once it has reached its optimum maturity. Ford Farm dairy in Dorset.
Black Bomber P V
Black Bomber is a popular award-winning cheese, produced by the Snowdonia cheese company. A creamy and smooth extra mature cheddar, this cheese has a very unique and one of our most popular cheeses.
Lincolnshire Poacher Vintage UP
Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard unpasteurised cow’s milk cheese with a rind resembling granite in appearance. It is made on Ulceby Farm, in Lincolnshire, England, by craft cheesemaker Richard Tagg. The cheese is matured for between 14 and 24 months, depending on when the milk was collected, it has extra mature extra strong cheese with a nutty flavor.
SOFT CHEESES
Brie de Meaux Rouzaire AOC U P
The King of all Bries, this farmhouse cheese of connoisseur quality is matured for five to six weeks.
Camembert Grand Rustique P
This traditional soft French Camembert is full of flavor and is best served ripe when oozing at room temperature. Produced in Normandy.
Baron Bigod U P
A creamy, white bloomy-rind cheese and UK’s only raw milk farmhouse Brie made by Jonathan and Dulcie Crickmore in Bungay, Suffolk, the English brie de meaux.
Cornish Organic Brie P V
A delicious mild and creamy flavor and melting smooth texture, The rich and creamy Cornish milk gives the cheese a characteristic.
Rollright P V
Produced locally and the King Stone Dairy using milk from their of cows. A washed rind soft cheese banded in spruce bark.
Vacherin Mont D’or AOC (seasonal) U P
The famous runny ‘spooning’ soft cheese with a washed crust. Superb piney flavour. In the prime of its season in the festive month. Available Oct-March.
REGIONAL CHEESES
Cheshire Appleby U P
Appleby’s Cheshire cheese is a unique, complex Cheshire, with a crumbly texture and a zesty, full-bodied and tangy flavour. Cheshire is in fact Britain’s oldest cheese, having been made since before Roman times.
Cornish Yarg P V
Yarg is a multi-award winning British cheese wrapped in nettle or wild garlic leaves, handmade in open vats by the small team at Lynher Dairies in mid Cornwall. Cornish Yarg – a moment of glory for the humble stinging nettle.
Gorwydd Caerphilly U P
Made with unpasteurised cow’s milk and traditional animal rennet, Gorwydd Caerphilly originally created in Caerphilly in Wales, is matured for three months to give a wonderfully oozy, mushroomy cream layer around a springy, citric, lactic core. This excellent traditional cheese has won a number of prestigious cheese awards.
White Stilton P V
This Stilton has a young fresh taste and a crumbly texture, much different to its big blue brother. Made at Long Clawson Dairy in Leicestershire.
Special Reserve Yorkshire Wensleydale (PGI) – Green Waxed P V
Aged for up to 6 months producing a fuller, deeper mature flavor with a superbly creamy, crumbly texture.
Individual cheeses
Camembert Grand Rustique P 250g
This traditional soft French Camembert is full of flavor and is best served ripe when oozing at room temperature. Produced in Normandy.
Mini Bombers 200g
Famous Black Bomber cheddar with the additions of various flavors, produced by the Snowdonia cheese company.
Vacherin Mont D’or AOC (seasonal) UP 450g
The famous runny ‘spooning’ soft cheese with a washed crust. Superb piney flavour. In the prime of its season in the festive month. Available Oct-March.
Key: UP = Unpasteurised P = Pasteurised V = Vegetarian
Please kindly note our range is subject to availability and season
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Tel: 01327 350454
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181 Watling St West, Towcester, Northants NN12 6BX
Opening Times
Monday – Closed
Tuesday 7.30am – 4.00pm
Wednesday 7.30am – 4.00pm
Thursday 7.30am – 4.00pm
Friday 7.30am – 4.00pm
Saturday 7.00am – 2.00pm
Sunday – Closed