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Fine Cheese Company 'Cheese Festival' at Milsom Place - Sat 29th Oct 2011
Milsom Place will once again be joining forces with the Fine Cheese Company to bring you the 7th Annual Cheese Festival 2011.
Mark the date of Saturday October 29th in your diary as some of the top artisan cheese producers from around the UK will be congregating in the courtyards and streets of Milsom Place.
All are welcome to this free event where you can meet the producers, learn more about the processes during demonstrations and taste and buy the cheeses.
The producers attending are:
Appleby’s
Cheese, Cheshire
The
last remaining traditional farmhouse Cheshire is made on the Appleby’s Farm on
the Cheshire plains using unpasteurised milk from their own herd.
www.applebyscheese.co.uk
Bath Soft Cheese Co., Somerset
Graham Padfield uses his own Organic Milk from Kelston Park to make Bath
Soft Brie and Wyfe of Bath.
www.parkfarm.co.uk
Caws Cenarth Cheese, Carmarthenshire
Carwyn Adams makes traditional cheeses on his Welsh farm. Alongside
these he has invented many new cheeses including: Golden Cenarth, British
Cheese Awards Supreme Champion 2010.
www.cawscenarth.co.uk
Cooleeney Farm, Co. Tipperary
Jim & Pat Maher are 4th Generation dairy farmers that produce many
varieties of cheeses on their farm in Ireland.
www.cooleeney.com
Cornish Cheese Co., Cornwall
Phillip & Carol Stansfield, make this blue cheese deep in Cornwall.
“Cornish Blue” was awarded world champion cheese 2010.
www.cornishcheese.co.uk
Curworthy Cheese, Devon
Rachel Stevens makes a range of hard cows' milk cheeses based on
traditional 17th century recipes.
www.curworthycheese.co.uk
Fortmayne Dairy, Yorkshire
Suzanne Strike and Andrew Ridley produce King Richard III, a traditional
Wensleydale made to the original pre-war recipe.
Hafod Cheese, Llangybi
Sam & Rachel Holden make this Cheddar-style cheese using organic milk
from their Ayrshire herd.
www.hafodcheese.co.uk
Hampshire Cheese, Hampshire
Tunworth is a handmade, unpasteurised soft cheese made by Stacey Hedges.
It gives any French Camembert a run for it’s money.
www.hampshirecheeses.co.uk
Keens Cheddar, Somerset
Stephen & James Keen are the fourth generation makers of this
traditional, unpasteurised Cheddar. Made on their farm near Wincanton.
www.keenscheddar.co.uk
Leicestershire Handmade Cheese Co., Leicestershire
England's only unpasteurised and farmhouse Red Leicester, “Sparkenhoe” is
made by David and Jo Clarke on the edge of Leicestershire.
www.leicestershiresheese.co.uk
Lyburn Cheese, Hampshire
Mike & Judy Smales make a range of award winning cheeses on their farm
in Hampshire. Particularly famous is their 16-month old Winchester – a
corss between a Gouda and Parmesan.
www.lyburnfarm.co.uk
Northumberland Cheese Co., Northumberland
Mark Robertson makes traditional hand-made cows, sheep & goats cheeses.
www.nothumberlandcheese.co.uk
Sharpham Cheese Dairy & Vineyard, Devon
Mark Sharman & Debbie Mumford, have made a wide range of unpasteurised
cheeses in Devon since the early 1970s.
www.sharpham.com
Sleight Farm, Somerset
Mary Holbrook makes fresh and ripened unpasteurised goats' milk cheeses
from her own herd on her farm at Timsbury, nr. Bath.
Ticklemore Cheese, Devon
Near the Dart river in Devon, Ben Harris and Robin Congdon make three
hand-crafted blue cheeses: Beenleigh Blue, Harbourne Blue and Devon Blue.
www.ticklemorecheese.co.uk
Westcombe Dairy, Somerset
Tom Calver and his father, Richard, revived the traditional of making
traditional cheeses on their farm in Westcombe, Somerset. Using their own
unpasteurised milk they make a range of cheeses including a traditional
cloth-bound cheddar and Duckett’s Caerphilly. www.westcombedairy.com
Whalesborough Farm, Cornwall
Sue Proudfoot started cheese-making 11 years ago in the old dairy at her
husband Fraser’s Whalesborough Farm using milk produced from their own herd;
she makes a large range of unpasteurised cows’ cheeses.
www.whalesboroughcheese.co.uk
White Lake Cheese, Somersert
In 2005 Pete Humphries joined forces with local goat herder Roger Longman
to set up his own dairy: Whitelake Cheese. Using the milk from Roger’s
700+ goats Pete is known for being an experimental cheesemaker, with lots of
little tests sitting in his ageing rooms.
The Fine Cheese Co., Somerset
The Fine Cheese Co. is a maturer, wholesaler, retailer and exporter of
artisan British cheeses, most of which are unpasteurised and all of which are
traditionally made. Alongside this, Ann-Marie Dyas and team have created
and make a range of biscuits and accompaniments for cheese.
www.finecheese.co.uk
For more information please call Milsom Place on 01225 789040 or The Fine Cheese Company on 01225 483407.
