Ewe's Milk Cheese and Wine!

I'll begin with a visit I made to a sheep farmer with my brother over 20 years ago, when we visited the Bergerie d'Acremont (website) in the Ardennes (above). We were treated to an array of excellent ewe's/sheep's milk cheeses, including a wonderful hard cheese and a brie-like cheese, some of which I later bought. It was mature, the rest of the people on my train home must have wondered where the aroma was coming from! 😉 Anyway, I bought 4 of the 5 ewe's milk cheeses available on my last visit to Penbuckles (website), bottom image. I'll begin this with the wine accompanying my cheese tasting. From Italy's Biscardo winery near Verona (website), their 13.5% Neropasso, made from partially dried Corvina, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, a deep ruby red wine with a cherry and plum fruity aroma and taste, slightly spicy, smooth and rich, and so easy to drink accompanying the cheese, recommended! 👍

So, to the cheeses, starting with bottom left in my photograph, the Sussex Ewe, which I think is made by High Weald Dairy (website), apologies if I'm wrong, I'll check and correct when next at Penbuckles. Whatever, it's really nice and tasty, a harder cheese with a slightly nutty flavour that brought a little chill to my cheeks, nice one! Going anticlockwise in the photograph, so bottom right, is the Wigmore, from Village Maid of Berkshire I do believe (website), a brie-like softer cheese, creamy with a very mild slightly sweet taste, and VERY easy to eat! 😁

So, to the last 2 cheeses starting with, in the top right of the photograph, from the more local The Traditional Cheese Dairy at Waldron in East Sussex (website) and their Lord of the Hundreds. A harder ewe's milk cheese, with a slightly nutty taste, quite strong and flavoursome, and again that chill to the cheeks I get from a more mature cheese, I really liked this! 😁 My final cheese, top left in the photograph, was from Devon, the Ticklemore Cheese Company (website), and their Beenleigh Blue. This blue cheese is lighter and sweeter than most blue cheeses I've tasted, but certainly has plenty of flavour, a little creamy, and yet again I got that nice wee chill in my cheeks, nice one! An overall pleasant 'tasting' with a bit more reported at my other blog. 👍