Cheese Reviews
The Grate My Cheese database of cheese reviews. Reviewer's opinions are their own.
Original Mexicana Cheddar
POSTED BY JOE ON OCTOBER 27, 2022
What started as a way to torment a friend at cheese nights has transformed into a personal favourite. A running joke at cheese nights is to select at least two cheeses which are likely to be unappetis...
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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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Shropshire Blue (Long Clawson Dairy)
POSTED BY LOUIS JOHN BRZOZKA ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The supermarket deli counter is always worth a browse for any cheese enthusiast. Whilst they likely won’t challenge the proper cheese shop for variety or rarity, they offer something a little differen...
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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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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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Norfolk Mardler (Hard Goat Cheese – Lidl Deluxe)
POSTED BY LOUIS JOHN BRZOZKA ON MARCH 28, 2021
There are some, mostly in the darker corners of the internet, that claim you can make cheese out of anything that produces milk. Personally I wouldn’t have wanted to be the person who systematically t...
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Munster (Soft French Cheese)
POSTED BY LOUIS JOHN BRZOZKA ON MARCH 16, 2021
As we have discussed before on this site, Brie and Camembert rule the roost when it comes to soft French cheeses. Indeed, we looked at a rather splendid British Brie made in Somerset which shows jus...
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Cheddar (Lidl ‘Deluxe’ Welsh Extra Mature)
POSTED BY LOUIS JOHN BRZOZKA ON FEBRUARY 14, 2021
I love cheddar. I am also half Welsh. Whilst this had no impact on my choosing this cheese to review, I note that our site has a distinct lack of cheeses from this particular corner of the world. Ther...
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Fro Sourdough With Sea Salt Crackers (Tesco)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Seldom does a fairly plain cheese cracker provide such a rollercoaster ride of dashed hopes and unexpected joys. I initially purchased these primarily to sneer at their aggressively hipster marketing ...
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Halloumi (Tesco)
POSTED BY PHILIP ON FEBRUARY 4, 2021
It is on the face of it absurd that heating ice turns it into water. You’re trying to tell me that the iron-hard crystalline scourge of hubris-laden passenger liners, a formidable foe even for Vladimi...
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