West Country Farmhouse Cheddar

The Green family has been making cheese on their farm in Somerset for four generations. It is a true farmhouse cheese because they use milk exclusively from their own herd of Fresian cows. They are also one of the last cheesemakers who make every wheel by turning the curd by hand on the table. 

Of course, they carry the West Country Farmhouse Cheddar PDO, awarded by the EU for making cheddar in the traditional manner in the place where cheddar was born. One of our own cheese mongers, Brandon Campbell, visited Green’s when he went to England last September for the British Cheese Awards. He was poking around in the aging room with Lloyd Green and his nephew Paul, and they came across some older wheels tucked in the corner. They tasted the cheese and discovered that it had a fantastic flavor. Problem was, Lloyd didn’t want to ship a cheese that was this old anymore because he had complaints from many retailers that didn’t know how to handle this majestic old cloth bound cheese, but Brandon convinced the family that Central Market could handle the cheese. 

So now, we have an EXCLUSIVE on these beautifully ripened 18 month old wheels.