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Avilton foods Published in association with the UK Cheese Guild and its trade sponsors GUIDE TO BRITISH & IRISH CHEESES CHEDDARS BRITISH TERRITORIALS HARD AND SEMI-HARD CHEESES SOFT & SEMI-SOFT CHEESES BLUES FRESH CHEESES FLAVOURED VARIETIES BUYING ADVICE WHOLESALER DIRECTORY Essential stocklists for every speciality food store A SUPPLEMENT TO

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Avilton foods

Published in association with the UK Cheese Guild and its trade sponsors

Guide to British & irish Cheeses

Cheddars • British territorials • hard and semi-hard Cheeses • soft & semi-soft Cheeses • blUes • fresh Cheeses

• FlavoUred varieties • BuYiNG adViCe • Wholesaler direCtorY

essential stocklists for every speciality food store

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WelComeby Bob Farrand

the Guild of fine food organises several retail training programmes, and the longest established and most popular is the UK Cheese Guild course. Over the past 20 years we have trained thousands of shop owners, counter staff and buyers up and down the country, and at the close of each training day one or two delegates will always ask if I can recommend a guide to the cheeses that good delis and farm shops should stock.

Having spent 40-odd years learning about cheese and still discovering something new each day, it seems unlikely such a guide could ever exist. But what I’ve attempted to put together here is a list of the basic families of cheese and the must-stocks within each family – the ones I believe the best counters should always include.

For those stores keen to focus on regional specialities, I have listed a wide selection of artisan products found throughout Britain and Ireland. But a word of caution: it is by no means 100% comprehensive.

The selection of artisan cheeses available constantly changes, adding to the joy for every top quality cheesemonger who discovers a little local gem that enriches the counter and the cheeseboard. If I missed any you think are important I apologise,

but it is the vibrancy of the sector that makes it so enriching.

If I’m asked to recommend a book that reveals most about the regional cheeses from these islands, Great British Cheeses by Jenny Linford and published by Dorling Kindersley is my choice.

However, neither this guide nor any cheese book can replace the unique personality of each deli and farm shop cheese counter. That’s your role – and

long may it be the case.Good luck.

Bob farrandNational director, Guild of fine food & uK Cheese Guildw www.finefoodworld.co.uk

the World Cheese awards, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, annually attracts 3,000 cheeses from 34 countries, making it the largest competition of its type in the world. venues for the awards change year on year: it was dublin in 2008, Gran Canaria in 2009 and the bbC Good Food show at birmingham’s neC in 2010.

over 150 experts fly in from 25 countries to judge the cheeses in a single day and the World Champion is selected by an invited panel of food celebrities and international experts at the end of the judging.

all the results are available at www.finefoodworld.co.uk. where you can also watch video of the judges at work.

Cheddar

it remains the largest part of the cheese market but it is staggering how many stores fail to capitalise on the rich variety of cheddars

available. If the majority of your customers regularly buy cheddar, make sure you stock a selection that will appeal to as many of them as possible. If you don’t sell what they prefer they’re off down to Tesco, so occasionally you may need the odd block of creamery (factory-made) medium cheddar.

Mix farmhouse varieties from Devon, Dorset and Somerset – they offer very different flavour profiles as they are the result of different ‘terroirs’.

In Devon and Dorset, the soil drains well and coastal breezes are warm and salty from the Gulf Stream. In Somerset, there is more clay in the soil, which means the winter season often stretches from November to April so cattle are inside longer on winter feed. A cheese made in March in Devon is from early spring grass whereas those from South Somerset often deliver wonderful earthy characteristics.

Mix the age profiles – mature and extra mature cheddars are popular but 18 month and two-year-old farmhouse varieties carry good margins and offer a real point of difference. And you need to cater for younger consumers, many of whom prefer cheddars made using starters that generate sweeter flavours.

The two-year-old Barbers 1833 is made using traditional bulk starter cultures stored in their now, unique starter ‘bank’, which also supplies

other farmhouse cheese-makers like Montgomery, Keens, Westcombe and Appleby. Barbers regularly switches the cultures it uses in cheese-making, which ultimately delivers slight but delightful flavour variations, highlighting how wrong supermarket buyers are in demanding uniformity in their cheese.

Don’t get hooked into separating organic from non-organic because even at the World Cheese Awards all cheeses are judged side by side on texture, body and flavour. Alvis Bros has consistently won gold when up against non-organic farmhouse cheddars so if you have enough customers wanting organic you need look no further.

ChoosiNG Cheddar Stock cheddars from a variety of regions and offer a mix of farmhouse and creamery varieties and different sweet or savoury flavour profiles.• The farmhouse cheeses from Dorset,

Devon, Cornwall and Somerset all differ.

• From the south, consider Denhay, Quickes and Ford Farm.

• From the north, look at Montgomery, Keens, Westcome, Barbers, Brue Valley, Parkham and Alvis Bros.

• If you retail in Scotland, Wales or Ireland, clearly you need at least one local version.

• Offer a variety of age profiles – 12, 15, 18 and 24 months – and consider the time of year each one is made.

• Stock a ‘guest cheddar’ to widen the choice.

stocklist: essential cheddars12 months: Keens and Quickes15-18 months: Keens, Quickes, montgomery24 months: Quickes (when you can get it) and barbers 1833

Others West Country farmhouse cheddars you might stock from time to time: Westcombe, brue valley (World Champion in 2000), Ford Farm, Parkhams

Other British cheddars or cheddar-style cheeses worth considering:• Lincolnshire Poacher – sharp and assertive• Daylesford Organic – creamy Cotswold

award-winner with wide appeal • South Lakes Organic – made with rich

Cumbrian milk from organic grass-fed cows, this rich, creamy local variation has style.

• Little Black Bomber – from Snowdonia Cheese Co

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every supermarket sells its own versions of British territorial cheeses and mostly, they’re not very good. These cheeses define delis and farm shops more than any other. They tell the world you’re

running a serious cheese counter that offers more and better cheeses than any supermarket. It is vital, therefore, to stock the key names discerning consumers look for.

Aim to stock named farmhouse varieties but with more age than those stocked in Waitrose, which is the only supermarket offering any real point of comparison with your store. It stocks cheeses from farmhouse producers who resolutely refuse to sell to any other supermarket. On the one hand, that’s reassuring but on the other, if you have a Waitrose close by, you should check it out regularly. You’ll find it often fails to offer properly aged cheeses, which is almost inevitable when you are managing as many counters as Waitrose does.

This gives you the opportunity to offer cheeses with deeper, more complex flavours and shows why every independent retailer should get out of the shop regularly to visit the competition. Spend a few pounds buying cheeses both you and they stock and be honest with yourself: are yours better and worth the extra you charge?

If not, think again – and have a serious word with your suppliers.

A Hawes Real Yorkshire Wensleydale aged beyond 16 weeks offers deeper, richer lemony notes and Gorwydd Caerphilly is a real pleasure when the paste softens an inch or so inside the rind. Nettle and Wild Garlic Yarg are even more fabulous with another 2-3 weeks maturation beyond the supermarket norm.

Temperature control is critical. Supermarkets store at almost zero – which is too cold and often permanently damages the delicate, complex flavours of an Appleby Cheshire or Kirkham’s Lancashire.

As long as the centre of each cheese is below 8ºC (which means your counter temperature should be nearer 5ºC) you are within food safety guidelines. Some EHOs force retailers to bring the temperature down lower but the regulations are clear: hard and semi-hard cheese – below 8ºC; soft – below 5ºC.

hard and semi-hard british reGionals

stocklists: hard & semi-hard regionalssouth WestCornish YargGarlic YargCurworthydevon okeFosseway FleeceGunstone GoatFosseway Fleecehampshire roseloosehangerlyburn Goldmenallack Farmhousenorsworthyogleshieldold WinchesterPendragonPennard ridge (red)stithians Farm houseQuicke’s hard GoatticklemoreWoolsery GoatWyfe of bath

south eastashdown Forestersduddleswell

lord of the hundredsnot Just a Pasta Cheeseold sussexold Winchesterspenwoodsussex scrumpysussex YoemanWinterdale

middle englandberkswelldaylesford CheddarDouble Worcester – Ansteysdouble berkeleyelgar matureharefieldhawkstonehereford hoplincolnshire Poacherlittle derbylittle herefordnorfolk dappleold Worcester White

the Northberwick edgeCheviotChevingtonCoquetdaleCotherstoneCroglinCuddy’s Cave

delamere distinctivesage derbynorthumberlandribblesdalesheeps’ milk Wensleydaleswaledale

Wales beltaneCaws nantybwlallanboydyllangloffanteifi

scotlandCairnsmoreClochandighterdunlopisle of mulllanark Whitemull of Kintyre

irelandCooleadesmonddrumlindublinerGabrielKilleen (cow and goat)Knockamore

stocklist: British territorials Wensleydale: Hawes Real Yorkshire Wensleydale Reserve – or Kit Calvert if you can persuade hawes to sell it to youLancashire: Kirkhams if your store is south of birmingham; add dewlay and sandhams in the northCheshire: appleby, bournesRed Leicester: sparkenhoeCaerphilly: Gorwydd, Caws Cenarth and duckettsDouble Gloucester: Charles martell, appleby & QuickesSingle Gloucester: diana smart

New British and Irish hard cheeses have proliferated over the past two decades bringing a rich new generation of regional varieties – some spectacular, other with a little way still to go.

What you stock largely depends on where you are located, but some are worth stocking no matter where you are. The two very clever Yargs, the stunning 17-month Old Winchester from Lyburn, the award-winning Daylesford Organic, the sweet-savoury Coquetdale from Northumberland, and the Wyfe of Bath – which knocked me out when I judged it at the Bath & West Show – would all earn their keep on any counter.

Many others appeal because of their ‘local’ value but it is essential, wherever possible, to meet the makers and taste their cheeses before stocking. It is these small-scale artisan products that create a real point of difference from the supermarket.

Cornish Yarg (above), Lincolnshire Poacher (below left) and Llanboidy

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t his category offers the widest range of flavours of any cheese family so the clever retailer will stock a range to please as many palates as possible.

The average maturation time for most blues is around 3-4 months – some benefit from a little extra time but mostly this is when they’re at their peak. Foil-wrapped blues, particularly those that belong to the creamy soft type, are more firm textured and a little harsh at 12 weeks but a month later, they offer a rich, balanced creaminess.

Cashel Blue, Yorkshire Blue and Cornish Blue are so much better with the extra few weeks – another easy point of difference to score over the supermarkets. The irrepressible Baron Robert Pouget, the man behind Oxford Blue, visited the Guild offices a few years ago and left a 12-week-old example of his foil-wrapped cheese with instructions to bring it on for a further four weeks. He was right: it was creamy-soft and perfectly balanced.

For choice, two Stiltons are better than one. Those from Colston Bassett are in the older style, full-on and grown up. Cropwell Bishop, on the other hand, is more modern and approachable and will please younger consumers. Long Clawson is making top notch ‘modern style’ Stiltons now, as is Quenby Hall, and don’t forget Stichelton, not quite a Stilton but very nearly, and made using West Midlands unpasteurised milk. Very possibly exactly how Stilton was made before 1989.

Blue Wensleydale (now re-named Jervaulx Blue) is a perfect marriage of the honey notes in the Wensleydale with the blue acidity of the penicillium mould, pleasing many who find Stilton too strong.

Mentally separate all your blue cheeses into four main categories: strong, medium, creamy and mild. Make sure everyone on the counter knows which category each falls into and it will become second nature to guide customers towards the strength of cheeses they enjoy best. In supermarkets, staff and customers rely on idiot guides – strengths one to six written on the cheese or counter ticket –which means the server never needs to know how strong each cheese is. Just choose a number? That makes for a truly great shopping experience!

Stock at least three examples in each category and if you have the space then regularly introduce local blues to freshen the offer. Some are better than others but it’s low risk and can easily tempt customers into trying something new.

stocklist: blue cheesesessential bluesStilton – Two of the following: Colston bassett, Cropwell bishop, or Quenby hall and long Clawsonsticheltonblue shropshireblue Wensleydale (now replaced by Jervaulx blue)

south Westbeenleigh bluedorset blue vinney Cornish blueexmoor bluebath bluedevon blueharbourne blueblissfull buffalonanny bluenew Forest blueold sarum

south eastisle of White bluebarkham blue

middle englandoxford blueFowlers Forest bluesuffolk blue

the NorthYorkshire blueGarstang blueblacksticks blueribblesdale blue Goatsblue Cheshirebuffalo bluemrs bell’s bluenantwich blueYorkshire blue

scotlandlanark bluestrathdon bluedunsyre bluehighland blueblue monday

Walesllanloffan bluePer lâsPont Gar blue

irelandCashel blueCrozier blue

blUe CheesesCashel Blue

Jervaulx Blue

Yorkshire Blue

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this is the hardest sector of the cheese counter to cater for if you restrict your selection to British and

Irish cheeses only. The French have long thought themselves kings of soft cheese, with a selection of white mould and wash rind cheeses ranging from gloopy rich double-cream modern flavours to the uniquely wonderful earthy creaminess of a Brie de Meaux or Langrés.

Nevertheless British and Irish producers have upped their game over the past decade and a dedicated home nations cheesemonger has plenty to choose from. The white mould cheeses from Bath Soft Cheese, for example, have grown in stature and now deliver real depth of flavour and Tipperary Brie from Cooleeney delivers all the richness of Irish milk.

Your main problem will always be the ripeness of these cheeses as so many British and Irish soft and semi-soft varieties remain resolutely firm inside until they’re well past their

sell-by date and those that do ripen properly invariably go over the top 15 minutes later.

Home-grown bries need careful storage – avoid really low temperatures and remember, until you cut into a brie it is still ripening. So in law you can store it at its ripening temperature, which is at around 8ºC. Turn it regularly and the moment you feel it’s ready for cutting the food police will insist you store at 5ºC.

Stock as many bries as your counter can take and bring them on so that, come the weekend, you’ve always got plenty of ripe ones. Customers buy with their eyes and if they don’t see a ripe one in your counter, they’re off to Waitrose.

semi-soft Washed riNd & Natural riNd CheesesApart from one or two exceptions, the Brits don’t make great washed rind cheeses – even though legions of retailers say they can never stock too

much Stinking Bishop. In Ireland, with its strong monastic tradition, slowly washing and turning cheeses remains integral to their traditions. Gubbeen is spot on, as is Durrus and Ardrahan, but mostly, these are dinner party and special occasion cheeses so take care they’re at peak ripeness and don’t overstock and run the risk of wastage.

Customers will often lead you in the style and type of soft and semi-soft cheeses they want. In some parts of the UK and Ireland, consumers shy away from smelly washed rind varieties, so there’s little point in stocking lines that never sell.

There are good ones to be found, some bold-as-you-like wash rind cheeses, others mix rind washing with penicillium candidum or mature with natural rinds in high humidity cellars. This really is a category worth going local on, but check out the taste first – some present quite a challenge and you need to be able to sell them with knowledge and a good story

soFt & semi-soFt Cheeses

stocklist: semi-soft cheeses south WestKeltic Goldlittle stinkymorn dewPosburyPuddlesharpham rustic

south eastburwash rosest GilesWigmore

middle englandoxford isisst oswaldstinking bishopsuffolk Gold

North admiral CollingwoodCroftondoddington balticst James

scotlandbishop KennedyCriffeliona CromagKebbuck

WalesCaws CerwynCeltic Promisedragon’s backsaval

irelandardrahandurrusGubbeenKnockdrinnalavistownmilleenssouth West

bath soft CheeselubbornsharphamChannel island brieGolden CrossGoldilocksQuickes GoatCapricorn Goatvulscombeblack eyed susanChatelFarleigh WallopGevrikindian blanketKelston Parklittle ridinglittle Wallopold burfordtoppenrose Goldtymsboro

south easttunworthWaterlooPerrocherosary sussex slipcoteChabisdorstoneFinnFlower marieGolden Crossisle of Wightragstonest GeorgeWaterloo

middle englandCerney Cheesebuxlow Wonmilinnes ash logKelsey lanelightwood Chasermayhill Green

NorthKidderton ashWhitehaven

scotlandaiketCabocCrowdieClavaCrannogmornish

WalesCaws PresiliPerl WenPont Gar

ireland Wicklow baunCooleeneyst Killianst tolan

stocklist: soft white mould cheeses

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Fresh Cheese

in the very fresh cheese category, the only British mozzarella to come remotely close to the real thing made in Italy is the Laverstoke buffalo milk mozzarella made at

ex-Formula 1 world champion Jody Scheckter’s Hampshire farm. His investment is beginning to pay off – when his cheese-maker gets it right it’s divine, as can be the Burrata, a clever confection of a hollowed-out buffalo mozzarella filled with a mix of fresh cream and mozzarella pieces.

alvis Bros01934 864600www.lyecrosscheese.co.uk

anthony rowcliffe01892 838999www.rowcliffe.co.uk

avilton foods01392 822200www.avilton-foods.co.uk

Barbers01749 860666www.marylandfarm.co.uk

Bath soft Cheese01225 331601www.parkfarm.co.uk

Cahills farm Cheese00353 6962365www.cahillscheese.ie

Carron lodge01995 640352 www.carronlodge.com

the Cheese Cellar020 7819 6000www.cheesecellar.co.uk

the Cheese shop01244 346240 www.chestercheeseshop.co.uk

Cibosano020 8207 5820www.cibosano.co.uk

Cooleeney farmhouse00353 50445112www.cooleeney.com

Cornish Country larder01460 282010www.ccl-ltd.co.uk

Cryer & stott01977 511022www.cryerandstott.co.uk

dairy Crest01372 472286www.dairycrest.co.uk

daylesford organic020 7259 4900www.daylesfordorganic.com

emmi uK020 8875 2540www.uk.emmi.ch

Grana Padano0039 03091 09811www.granapadano.com

Gubbeen farmhouse00353 2828231www.gubbeen.com

hamish Johnston020 7738 0741www.hamishjohston.com

high Weald dairy01825 791636www.highwealddairy.co.uk

interprofession du Gruyère01262 470272www.gruyere.com

J.o.d food Products00353 [email protected]

Keen’s Cheddar01963 32286www.keenscheddar.co.uk

leopard oceanic01747 [email protected]

lewis and Cooper01609 772880www.lewisandcooper.co.uk

lyburn farmhouse Cheesemakers01794 399982www.lyburncheese.co.uk

lynher dairies Cheese01872 870789www.lynherdairies.co.uk

milk link01454 252506www.milklink.com

Neal’s Yard dairy020 7500 7662www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk

Northumberland Cheese01670 789798www.northumberlandcheese.co.uk

oxford Cheese Company01844 338055www.oxfordfinefood.com

Paxton & Whitfield01451 823460www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk

Pilgrims Choice01963 828868www.pilgrimschoice.com

Quickes traditional01392 851222www.quickes.co.uk

south lakes organic milk01229 586153

Wensleydale dairy Products01969 667664www.wensleydale.co.uk

Welsh assembly Government029 20 442627www.walesthetruetaste.com

ProdUCers, distribUtors & Wholesalers

FlavoUred Cheeses

t his cheese family is a matter for your discretion, but you ignore it at your peril.

If enough customers ask for Wensleydale with cranberries, you’ve probably got to stock it, but favourite is to go for real flavoured cheeses –

those where the additives are introduced during cheese-making, not afterwards.

There are one or two quite interesting ones about – Dutch style with cumin seeds, cheddar styles with shredded vegetables and so on.

Cahills in Ireland does a Porter cheese made using a Porter Ale made by Guinness, which works well in a cheese salad.

There is no need for a list of these cheeses – you’re probably aware of them already.

Published by: Great taste Publications and the Guild of Fine Food, Wincanton somerset ba9 9Fe. tel: 01963 824464 w: www.finefoodworld.co.ukeditor: mick Whitworth design: mark Windsor sales: sally Coley, becky stacey

Printed by: advent Colour, hants

© Great taste Publications ltd and the Guild of Fine Food ltd 2010. reproduction of whole or part of this magazine without the publisher’s prior permission is prohibited. the opinions expressed in articles and advertisements are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher.

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