Kit Calvert Wensleydale

Multi award-winning, Kit Calvert Old-Style Wensleydale cheese is lovingly made by a team of skilled cheese-makers at the Wensleydale Creamery, in the market town of Hawes, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. It is made using milk sourced from local farms and the Creamery’s very own unique cheese-making starter culture. A lot less cheese-making starter culture is used to make the cheese, which ultimately slows the process right down. It takes nearly twice as long to make the cheese compared to any other Yorkshire Wensleydale styles cheese.

£2.85	Quantity: Per 100g

Ingredients: Cheese; Milk (Cow, Goat, Buffalo or Ewe’s Milk), and may contain; Salt, Starter Culture, Truffle, Bacteria, Rennet, Annatto. Decoration may contain Fruit, Nuts And Foliage.

For allergens, please see ingredients.

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The cheese is made with pasteureised milk and vegetarian rennet and once formed, it’s bound in muslin before being naturally matured for around 16 weeks on open shelves in an atmospherically controlled cheese store, under the watchful eye of the Creamery’s specialist Cheese-Grader. During this maturation period the outer surface of the cheese forms a natural rind, whilst the buttery, creamy, complex rounded flavour and texture of the cheese continues to develop. The earthy notes of the rind of the finished cheese lead you through to the creamy, buttery body of the cheese with a complex milky flavour and citrusy notes with a lemony back tang beloved of all Wensleydale devotees.

Emulating a cheese recipe used by farmers wives in their farmhouses & dairies around the turn of the century & throughout Kit Calvert’s era, the cheese-making process for Kit Calvert Old-Style Wensleydale is slowed right down, resulting in a softer and creamier textured cheese, which is markedly different to the bright, creamy, crumbly textured Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese we often see today.

Traditionally, Wensleydale cheese is eaten with a slice of rich fruit or Christmas cake and we can not see any reason to change this as the cake and cheese compliment each other beautifully. A fortified wine or even a Marsala wine would fully enhance the flavours of Kit Calvert Wensleydale too.