Two cheeses from the same maker, both blue, one made with cows milk and the other with goat. They might have everything but the milk in common, but these are very different cheeses. The first is strong and tangy and tasty, the second sent me croaking[…]

The cheese: soft raw goats cheese, made in Co Clare, Ireland
Bought from: Neals Yard Dairy
St Tola comes in big logs, and a slice of about a half-inch thickness makes my lunch. It’s got a soft yellow wrinkled rind, underneath which the cheese i[…]

Bocconcini di Capra
Soft goat cheese, Italian, from Gastronomica
A very squishy soft little white round of cheese, wrapped in white paper, and small enough that it nestles in my palm. When I cut it, it oozes a creamy white viscous liquid. It tastes s[…]

Sorry, two unrepentantly good cheeses here; a squishy sweet old brie, and an intensely salty blue. (more…)[…]

Testing conditions: To properly work up an appetite we cycled to Brighton and had a stroll along the pier before catching the train back to London. Both of these cheeses were eaten on sourdough bread and accompanied with red wine.
Mystery raw goats c[…]

Saint-Marcellin
Cheese stats: A soft raw-milk cow’s cheese from Lyon, France
Bought from: Une Normande à Londres
This is a small round cheese, packed in its own little clay dish, pale and creamy with a white bloom on the outside. Breaking into[…]

Cheese stats: A raw washed rind sheep’s cheese from Corsica.
Bought from: Une Normande à Londres
Tasting conditions: We had a little picnic lunch with this and some fresh baguette.
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My Human Wheel Of Cheese told me to get some hard sheep cheese from Neals Yard Dairy, so off I trotted. They do two different varieties, and so I got a little slice of each for a side-by-side taste test.
Cheese Stats: Both are hard, unpasteurised she[…]

Stats: A raw sheep cheese from Spain, made with a thistle rennet.Bought from: BrindisaTasting conditions: I had this for lunch, on wholemeal bread.

This cheese appears hardish, and has a slightly translucent pale yellow rind with spots of green-gr[…]

Stats: Blue sheep’s milk cheese from Devon
From: Neal’s Yard Dairy
Testing conditions: I had this for lunch, on some seedy spelt bread, alongside a huge bowl of salad.
This cheese is fairly hard and and has a crumbly, slightly waxy textur[…]