Cheese Nights
Inspiration and ideas for your next amazing cheese night event.
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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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 Soft Bovine Board – Final
POSTED BY PHILIP ON MARCH 25, 2021
After a two-week hiatus to refresh our palettes and rekindle our lust for soft cheese, we put the four qualifiers from the group stages – together with the wildcard entrant I can now reveal is the ash...
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Group 3 – Mould-ripened
POSTED BY PHILIP ON MARCH 4, 2021
Leaving behind the stifling uniformity of five types of Brie, and the punishing farminess of three washed-rind cheeses, we turn at last to the most varied (and in my view most enjoyable) group stage o...
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Group 2 – Washed-Rind
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 25, 2021
For many long months, I have lain awake at night pondering the relative merits of two extremely similar cheeses: Tesco Finest Époisses and Tesco Finest Langres . Now, at last, they meet head-to-hea...
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Group 1 – Brie
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 18, 2021
This is the first group stage for the Tesco Soft Bovine Board . Five Brie competed head-to-head for the one place up for grabs on the final board. Brie is a mild, soft-ripened cheese originating in ...
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Tesco Soft Bovine Board – Introduction
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Hype is building for the Spring edition of the Tesco Soft Bovine Board (colloquially: “the bove board”). This festival of cheeses that are strictly: from Tesco; lactated by cows; below a certain minim...
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Christmas Cheese Board Review
POSTED BY PHILIP ON JANUARY 7, 2021
Overall this was a pretty successful and well-balanced board. There was good variety across the milk-giving-animal spectrum, with a soft suprabovine focus which yielded quite a sharp and tasty selecti...
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