I took today off to get some things ready for Christmas. One of those traditional things is queueing for cheese at Iain Mellis on Great Western Road. Usually the queue is approximately 1 hour – this year it was 95 minutes! But it’s always a good humoured, Christmas-spirited sort of queue, and the cheese is cracking. And I’m only really allowed cheese a few times a year, so it’s worth the wait.
And in case you’re wondering what I bought:
- Spenwood – a hard ewes milk cheese with a nice nutty flavour. Great with fruit. Even better with Christmas cake.
- Berkswell – another hard ewes milk cheese, but a bit saltier – more like Pecorino.
- Strathdon blue – From Aberdeenshire. I’ve not had this before, but looks like it has a nice blue-cheese kick and saltiness balanced with creaminess
- Golden Cross – a goats cheese log rolled in ash and with a white mould (sounds v. appetising, doesn’t it?).
- Cooleeney – an Irish soft cheese a bit like Camembert. Needs to be eaten young otherwise the farmyardyness is a bit too much.
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