Reply With QuoteDanish Blue is my favourite. Used to be sold by all supermarkets but difficult to find in recent times - perhaps too sharp and offensive for most
Suggestions welcome please. Not soft and runny though. Mail order ok too and preferably a bit spicy. ie. not Cheddar....
Danish Blue is my favourite. Used to be sold by all supermarkets but difficult to find in recent times - perhaps too sharp and offensive for most
Roquefort is my favourite.
However, if you want spice - you can get Monterey Jack with jalapeño in lots of places...
E.g.
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That French stuff that has live maggots in it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu
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Cornish Yarg, wrapped in nettle leaves.
Or
Stinking Bishop.
A real good Cheshire cheese from an artisan cheese manufacturer can be tangy and pull your cheeks in strong.
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Not at all spicy, but both cheeses I used to eat a lot of: Esrom or Havarti. Very cheesy, in fact Esrom might remind you of old socks smell-wise, but the taste is great.
Cambozola is a nice creamy blue, in case that might be of interest. Not spicy either, but must be easily available as Tesco sell it up here.
Roquefort all day long. Nothing has ever beaten it for me. I Ddo like Black Bomber though, full flavoured and moreish.
Oxford Blue....rich, creamy and tangy blue cheese.
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There is a Scottish version of Roquefort called Lanark Blue which is not easy to find but worth the effort, and that from a Frenchman who at one point created a cheese business in the UK.
If you go for Roquefort, avoid the supermarket brands and try to find “Vieux berger” or “Carles”, the last 2 artisan maker.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
I like Blue vinney not as strong as a good stilton so might not tick the right boxes
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Despite being appalled by the concept, White Stilton with mango & ginger is nice and different.
Cropwell Bishop must be one of the top Stilton cheeses. Their milder Beauvale is very tasty too.
And they do mail order.
https://cropwellbishopstilton.co.uk/
I also love a Wensleydale with apricots or cranberries in it. Yum.
Another vote for Stinking Bishop.
^^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^^
A good DB feels like it will strip the lining of your upper mouth...lovely on a bit of bread though...
I've seen it on the shelf...but I don't like it (too salty). Online...Tesco own-brand, otherwise Castello Danish Blue on offer at Morrisons, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Ocado etc.
2 great suggestions, and if you like these, see if you can source a blue called Picos de Europa from northern spain. very nice
https://www.cheese.com/picos-de-europa/
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Another vote for Roquefort. The one Aldi sells is particularly good. So are some of their other cheeses.
I'd also suggests picking up their rosemary crackers while in there. A superb combination.
A lover of cheese here. Too many to list, but if you get the chance to try 'Old Jack', don't miss it. A cheddar of stunning quality and mature taste. Haven't found it for a while. I picked it up from a cheese shop in Folkestone a few years ago.
Munster is very nice can get a bit strong though
Oxford blue I also liked there is a nice little cheese shop in the covered market in Oxford think its still there.
Ossau-iraty, Saint marcellin and brillat savarin
Moblier is a nice smooth cheese
Mostly all French as the wife is French so that's how it is... Lol
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www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk.
We visited it last week and it’s an amazing place . Fully mail order too although you don’t get to try.
I was given a Wiltshire ( Didn’t even know that was a thing ) which is one of the best hard cheeses I have ever had .
Simon (Foxy 100)....
Your thread is here!!
Maybe I'm showing my biases but I was shocked at how good at Aldi Roquefort was .Another vote for Roquefort. The one Aldi sells is particularly good. So are some of their other cheeses.
I'd also suggests picking up their rosemary crackers while in there. A superb combination.
All cheese has a ‘wow’ factor.
It’s all minging!
Ghastly stuff.
1) remember to avoid red wine with a Roquefort. They fight, which means one of them, or both, will lose. Ideally you want a Sauternes, a Vouvray moelleux or a Vendanges Tardives from Alsace. A Jurançon will also do but sweeter and less depth.
2) a poster mentioned Ossau-Iraty. This is a cheese with a strange asset. It is a very mild cheese most of the time (the really strong ones are rare, usually only eaten locally in the Basque Country and in Bearn, with black cherry jam). And you know the rule to always start with the milder cheese in your plate to enjoy all of them. Yet you can eat Ossau Iraty even after a Roquefort or a powerful Livarot, or Époisses, and you will get all its flavour.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Tesco used to sell a couple of different saucisson here. One of which was plain, the other ruined by having Rocquefort added. The plain one used to fly off the shelf so Tesco only seemed to stock the ruined one. When they realised this wasn't selling they stopped selling it, but didn't re-introduce the one that sold. Ah, Tesco and its Finest Minds, but I digress from the cheesy thread. Carry on at your leisure please.
Aldi do a lovely Alsace and I agree it goes wonderfully with their Specialty Select Roquefort
Failing that a Chardonnay for me.
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I may be weird, but I like cider with cheese.
Slightly OT, but in my opinion, cheap French supermarket cider is nicer than most of the stuff you can get in the UK. I'm suree you already know that, of course. I'm surprised and disappointed that no one imports it.
Suggestion for the next night out ..
I do the pickled egg
You do the Roquefort
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Wow, you say? Easy! Serve on a cocktail stick, with pineapple.
Have a piece of rich fruit cake with it.
If you can see past soft and runny, Epoisses is fabulous
2 I would recommend and can be got at Waitrose
Cashel Blue(Irish)
A French Burgundy cheese called Epoisses-v smelly but tastes delicious
I tend to only like cheese you have to eat with a spoon. I suppose if you're weird and put cheese in the fridge it could be considered to not be soft anymore, but who'd do that?
Isle of Wight Blue is the greatest cheese in the world:
Followed by Tunworth (here's its sister cheese, Winslade):
This stuff nearly defeated me though, one of the strongest cheeses I've ever tried, like an Epoisses but significantly stronger:
And this stuff is amazing too, another like an Epoisses but not so deadly:
"A man of little significance"
Wensleydale with stem ginger; but for that matter, almost any Wensleydale. I visited this place a few years back and I couldn’t stop myself eating the samples.
https://www.wensleydale.co.uk/shop/cheese/
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My three current favourites, in no particular order, are:
Manchego
Blacksticks Blue
vintage Gouda.
Eaten with black grapes and walnuts.
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Saint Agur is nice. Like Havarti but can't find it around here anymore.
Sain agur yes love that also you can get a small tub of soft creamy version great on toast. Or use as butter on a baguette with a nice bit of ham on top.
Epousses now there's anoth great shout quality as well
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Stinking Bishop.
Gloriously strong
Vacherin Mont d'Orr - the best cheese I have ever tasted.
https://www.thecourtyarddairy.co.uk/...t-d-or-cheese/
I know the OP said no Cheddar, but the one cheesery left in Cheddar is very good indeed, and the strong stuff is great:
https://www.cheddaronline.co.uk/prod...ature-cheddar/
Lyburn make some great stuff too, the Winchester is halfway between a Cheddar and Gouda:
https://www.lyburnfarm.co.uk/cheeses
"A man of little significance"
Lot of people recommending soft and runny to an OP who asked for the opposite of that!
Some good left-field suggestions here - I haven't thought of Vacherin for decades.
I used to manage the Pacton & Whitfield branch in Stratford-Upon-Avon, what? A lifetime ago? And the best hard cheeses they sold there Montgomery 18 month cheddar, and another English hard called Lincolnshire Poacher. The latter remains, to this day, my favourite cheese. It's very strong with a hard rind, sometimes with little crystals forming inside. It's quite delicious.
https://lincolnshirepoachercheese.co...oacher-cheese/
The main branch of Paxton & Whitfield is in Jermyn Street, or always used to be. Pop in!
I developed some very expensive tastes at that shop. Happy days.
Époisses, Munster, Le Rustique, Shepherds Purse Yorkshire Blue.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
One of my favourites:
https://parkfarm.co.uk/product/merry-wyfe/
There are 3 "Vacherin" cheese 2 in France (Jura and Savoie) and 1 in Switzerland. The latter is made from pasteurised milk.
It's one of the last remaining seasonal cheeses, although the industry is slowly changing this. It is supposed to be produced as the cows come down from the alpage (the higher mountains where they spent part of spring and the whole summer). The cheese is ready between December and Feb-March.
It is delicious, especially hot, but the OP said "no soft and runny", and with Epoisses it is the runniest cheese I know.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Anyone tried Cancoillotte ?
I tried it many years ago when I was a placement student in Franche-Comté & recall it was nice with rustic bread & charcuterie.
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That is a really local cheese, doesn't travel much outside Franche-Comté.
It's lovely.
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Mrs. Appleby's Farmhouse Cheshire is well worth tracking down. M&S sometimes have it. Nothing like the usual bland Cheshire. Crumbly, tangy, mature.
The ones I can think of straight away would be an epoisses that came from Gevrey Chambertain which completely stunk the house out and I was immediately banned from ever buying again, an Italian blue made with Buffalo milk called imaginatively Blu di Buffalo and Delice de Bourgogne which we can get in our local Booths supermarket.
My Dad actually met the guy who produced the Gevrey cheese and got asked what he thought. He told the guy that once he'd got used to the smell of a farmyard, it was lovely and the guy said that was the perfect answer and what he wanted to hear!!
Malc
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