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1. Cheese. Y Fenni. Abergavenny. 4.4. Y Fenni is a Welsh cheese made from a combination of mature Cheddar, wholegrain mustard, and Welsh ale. It melts easily, so it is often placed on steaks for the final grilling. The cheese is coated in either red or yellow wax, and its flavor is sp... READ MORE. 2. Cheese. Little Black Bomber. Rhyl. 4.3.
Welsh Cheese. There is no doubt that Wales produces some seriously good cheeses. It ranges from cheddars to Caerphilly and includes blue, hard, smoked, soft, washed rind and made from cow, ewe, goat, unpasteurised and organic milk.
- Caws Cenarth
- Caws Teifi
- The Blaenafon Cheddar Company
- Pant Mawr
- Bodnant
- The Snowdonia Cheese Company
- Abergavenny Fine Foods
- Hafod
- Rhyd Y Delyn
- Y CWT Caws
A family business founded in 1987 by Gwynfor and Thelma Adams, Caws Cenarth draws on a six-generation family history of cheesemaking. The business is based at the family farm in the lush valley of the river Cych, which is now run by Gwynfor and Thelma’s son Carwyn. Caws Cenarth is the oldest established producer of Welsh Farmhouse Caerffili (also k...
Located on an organic dairy farm in the Teifi Valley, Teifi Cheese is the most highly awarded cheesemaker in Britain. It’s also the longest established artisan cheesemaker in Wales: co-founder John Savage-Onstwedder is regarded as the ‘godfather’ of artisan cheesemaking in the country. The company produces no less than 12 different cheeses, includi...
A family-run cheese company based in the World Heritage site of Blaenafon, South Wales, The Blaenafon Cheddar Company is known for flavouring many of its cheeses with locally made alcoholic drinks, from whiskey to cider. The cheeses are handmade at the Blaenafon Cheddar Company’s shop in Broad Street, Blaenafon, and they’re all free from dried ingr...
Pant Mawr Farmhouse Cheeses is a family-run business established in 1983 when the Jennings family returned to Wales from the Middle East where they had helped set up some of the first commercial dairy enterprises in Libya and North Yemen. The company is based at the Jennings’ small traditional Welsh hill farm in the foothills of the Preseli Mountai...
The cheeses produced at Bodnant’s multi-award-winning Welsh Food Centre are made within 24 hours of milking cows that graze less than a mile away. These artisan cheeses are made to traditional recipes, with options ranging from a Caerphilly to the Aber range of cheeses including the beechwood-smoked Abermwg cheese; the creamy, rounded Caws Aberwen,...
Set amid the beautiful scenery of North Wales, the Snowdonia Cheese Company was established in 2001 with the aim of creating a luxury range of cheeses. The company takes cheese brought down from the valley, and with the finest ingredients and care, produces its range of award-winning truckles. Options range from Black Bomber – a mature Cheddar – th...
The Abergavenny Fine Food Company is a family owned business producing a wide range of traditional and flavoured cheeses. The company retains its traditional cheesemaking methods, producing small batches that are hand waxed for a handcrafted, artisan feel and taste. For a clean, handmade flavour they use only locally sourced English and Welsh milk,...
Hafod is a traditional hard cheese handmade on Wales’ longest certified organic dairy farm, Bwlchwernen Fawr. The cheese is made with raw milk from the farm’s 75 Ayrshire cows. Ayrshire milk is rich in butterfat and protein, and is widely regarded as being ideally suited to cheesemaking. The recipe for the cheese originated locally, from the late D...
Rhyd y Delyn is a family run dairy farm producing award winning artisan cheese from its own cows’ creamy milk. The pedigree Holstein Friesian cows are all bred on the farm and graze on lush grass pasture during the spring and summer months. The cheese is made in a small modern dairy on the farm less than 30 metres from where the cows are milked. Th...
Y Cwt Caws is a family-run artisan cheesemaking business based on the family farm at Cors yr Odyn, Dulas, Anglesey. All their cheeses are produced entirely by hand, using the milk from their mixed herd of Saanans, Toggenburgs and Alpine goats. ‘Ffetys’, a salad style cheese, won gold at the True Taste of Wales 2008/09 awards, while their Môn Wen Ca...
We’re very proud to be working closely with fifteen of the best artisan cheese makers in Wales. We stock over 60 varieties of Welsh cheese in total, sourced from all corners of the country. Explore our producers page to find out more.
- Acorn. This modern farmhouse cheese is based on an old-style recipe for English Wensleydale. Made from unpasteurized ewe’s milk, it has a melt-in-your-mouth texture that’s both firm and crumbly.
- Caerphilly. First made in Caerphilly around 1830, this original Welsh cheese is quite similar to Wensleydale and Lancashire. However, with a higher moisture content, it is more buttery and less crumbly than its English counterparts.
- Celtic Promise. This modern vegetarian cheese is made by John and Patrice Savage-Ontswedder in collaboration with a recipe invented by pioneering cheese affineur James Aldridge.
- Llanboidy (updated 2013) This was one of the most popular Welsh cheeses, until it’s maker retired in 2011. Llanboidy was the only cheese in Europe made from the milk of Red Poll cows, a rare pedigree breed.
If you’re planning on visiting Wales, it’s definitely worth trying some of our fabulous cheeses – we have over 100 different kinds so there’s plenty of choice. Top Welsh cheeses chosen by Loving Welsh Food guests. Black Bomber – Snowdonia Cheese Company.
Oct 24, 2016 · From rich and savoury hard cheese, to soft and creamy goats' cheese and tangy blue cheese, Wales’ artisanal producers sell a broad range of varieties.
