Christmas Cheese!
Discussion
Not sure if anyone else on here sees cheese as a major part of the Xmas experience but our family are all cheese lovers and buying decent and interesting cheese seems to become slightly more important every year.
This year we stuck with British cheese and all bought from a deli in Bristol (Arch House - which I can't recommend enough
)
From 6 o'clock, going clockwise (all half eaten sadly!):
Berkswell - Kind of English manchego from sheeps milk. Hard, dry and almost grainy, slightly nutty and really nice.
Rachel's goats cheese - Semi-hard, amazing smooth texture, quite mild and always very reliably good.
May Hill Green - Cow's milk, soft, round cheese made by the same people who make stinking bishop. Basically the same cheese but wrapped in nettles rather than perry-washed. Less pungent, and sadly nowhere near as tasty imo.
White nancy goat's cheese - Locally made soft goats cheese from Somerset. Probably the nicest cheese I've bought in a good while, amazing full-flavour, smooth and creamy in the middle and then aged and tasty on the outside. Strongly recommended.
Blue Monday - Cow's milk cheese made (partly) by Alex James from blur. Unusual in that it is sold in square blocks. Fairly subtle and creamy blue with a bit of salty after-taste - not much like any other British blue cheese, perhaps more like Gorgonzola. Very, very nice.
Also have a nice bit of Beaufort AOC, the king of Gruyere!, but it didn't really go with the others so is being saved for later tonight to eat whilst sampling new whiskies with friends
Anyone else here have, or already had, any interesting and tasty cheese yet this christmas?
This year we stuck with British cheese and all bought from a deli in Bristol (Arch House - which I can't recommend enough
)From 6 o'clock, going clockwise (all half eaten sadly!):
Berkswell - Kind of English manchego from sheeps milk. Hard, dry and almost grainy, slightly nutty and really nice.
Rachel's goats cheese - Semi-hard, amazing smooth texture, quite mild and always very reliably good.
May Hill Green - Cow's milk, soft, round cheese made by the same people who make stinking bishop. Basically the same cheese but wrapped in nettles rather than perry-washed. Less pungent, and sadly nowhere near as tasty imo.
White nancy goat's cheese - Locally made soft goats cheese from Somerset. Probably the nicest cheese I've bought in a good while, amazing full-flavour, smooth and creamy in the middle and then aged and tasty on the outside. Strongly recommended.
Blue Monday - Cow's milk cheese made (partly) by Alex James from blur. Unusual in that it is sold in square blocks. Fairly subtle and creamy blue with a bit of salty after-taste - not much like any other British blue cheese, perhaps more like Gorgonzola. Very, very nice.
Also have a nice bit of Beaufort AOC, the king of Gruyere!, but it didn't really go with the others so is being saved for later tonight to eat whilst sampling new whiskies with friends
Anyone else here have, or already had, any interesting and tasty cheese yet this christmas?
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