Yarg Cornish Cheese
This delicious semi-hard cheese from Cornwall, in the South West of the country is deliciously creamy under the rind and slightly crumbly in the core. It has a young, fresh, slightly tangy taste and is made by hand in open round vats.
After pressing and brining, the cheese is wrapped in nettle leaves picked wild from neighbouring properties and frozen for use throughout the year. The leaves are carefully brushed onto the cheese in a traditional pattern and they attract wonderful natural occurring moulds of various colours, which help the cheese ripen. As the cheese matures, these edible nettles impart a delicate, slightly mushroomy taste. The final product has an attractive, lacy pattern of leaves in blue and green, giving the finished cheese a very unique appearance.
Ingredients
Cornish Yarg has no GMO ingredients, is suitable for vegetarians and is made using pasteurised milk. It contains no nuts. The rind contains nettle leaves, for more information on the benefits of nettles please click here or on the link at the top right of the page.
Keeping notes
Wrap in cheese paper or cling film. Store at 5 degrees or below. Remove from the fridge 1 hour before consuming the cheese. The rind is edible. This cheese will remain fresh for up to 10 days from cutting, and for 42 days from despatch if uncut.
Product weights per unit/case
Unit weights: 3kg, 1.6kg half moon, 1kg truckle.
Case weights: 1 x 3kg, 2 x 1.6kg half moon, 4 x 1kg truckle.
Awards
Bath and West – Gold 2006
Taste of the West – Gold 2006
World Cheese Awards – Gold 2006
British Cheese Awards – Gold 2006
