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Philip
I love cheese. Most of all I love the strongest Cheddars available; ewe's or goat's cheese are also often hits.
Espresso Bellavitano
POSTED BY PHILIP ON JUNE 14, 2025
As a rational adult, I consider flavoured or infused cheeses an abomination against nature. Wensleydale with cranberries is a great way to turn a mediocre cheese into a faintly repulsive one. Cheeses ...
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Tesco Finest Black Garlic Infused Aged Sheep’s Cheese
POSTED BY PHILIP ON NOVEMBER 20, 2022
Nothing is certain in life but the inevitability of death, the inescapability of taxes, and Nature’s iron rule that a cheese infused with something else will never be very good. This sheep’s cheese co...
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Very Cheesy Tartiflette
POSTED BY PHILIP ON NOVEMBER 3, 2022
If, when you see a tartiflette recipe recommending a scant 500g of Reblochon cheese, you laugh hollowly while switching back to scroll cheese lifestyle articles on gratemycheese.com , then this might...
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Autumn 2022 Cheese Night
POSTED BY PHILIP ON OCTOBER 20, 2022
What better way is there to eat cheese than via a strictly regimented rating system? We were initially concerned that with 9 people a paltry 13 cheeses would leave us hungry for more. Thankfully this ...
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Snowdonia Cheese Company “Rock Star” Vintage Cheddar
POSTED BY PHILIP ON OCTOBER 6, 2022
My last few liaisons with the Snowdonia Cheese Company’s legendary Black Bomber have left me a little bewildered. Yes, that extra mature Cheddar is undoubtedly delicious, with a silky-smooth texture...
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Corner Deli Co. Halloumi
POSTED BY PHILIP ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
The last review of a Tesco halloumi determined that, while the Tesco specimen wasn’t actually all that good, halloumi’s baseline deliciousness is so high that it can’t fail to impress. To put this t...
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Autumn 2021 Cheese Night
POSTED BY PHILIP ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
The leaves shade russet, the sunlight compresses, and autumn’s chill fingers stroke the morning air. That can mean only one thing: the cheese review season has arrived. We fired the starting gun on th...
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Tesco Serendipitous Deli Board
POSTED BY PHILIP ON JUNE 3, 2021
In recent weeks Tesco has added an impressive number of new cheeses to their deli counter; not only that, but the general tastiness of said new entries is high. Not since the first milk-laden battalio...
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Snowdonia Cheese Company Hamper
POSTED BY PHILIP ON MAY 6, 2021
Few things brighten my day more than the unexpected appearance of a large hamper of cheese on my doorstep, its cheeses plucked fresh from their bovine trees and delivered direct to my porch by the sto...
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Tesco Finest Cave-Aged Goat’s Cheese
POSTED BY PHILIP ON APRIL 8, 2021
Cows are near-ubiquitous in the large-lactating-mammal space. When I think of cheese, I think of throaty mooing, weighty hooves, jiggling udders and plaintive eyes. In recent years, though, I have com...
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