Dairy Crest Ltd.
Dairy Crest House / Portsmouth Road
KT6 5QL Surbiron, Surrey
Product Authenticaton Inspecorate Ltd (PAI)Rowland
House, 65 High Street, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1DN
Tel: 01903 237799
Fax: 01903 204445
enquiries@thepaigroup.com
Cylindrical Shaped, blue veined, white full fat soft cheese.
Appearance: Creamy white with uniform blueing
Body and Texture: Smooth and open
Flavour: Clean, distinctive, free from off and yeasty flavours and taints,, and foreign bodies
Age at Despatch: Normally between 3-4 weeks from manufacture. However, providing cheese quality is satisfactory, cheese may be despatched outside these limits.
Produced at fifty miles from Dovedale.
Milk is acquired from local farms. The cheese is not made outside the area and is made with the traditional knowledge and skills of the cheesemakers in the area.
Milk is acquired from the local area and pasteurised. Following the addition of starter, blue mould cultures and rennet the resulting curds are cut and drained. After the process of hoop filling, draining and brining, the cheeses are pierced and left to mature.
