Specialty Cheddar
Managing Director Jane Bennett spent two years in England learning the traditional English county territorial cheese recipes and techniques.
It is these traditional recipes and techniques that Ashgrove Cheese now uses to create fantastic English farmhouse flavours right here in Australia. Ashgrove Cheese is the only cheese producer in Australia to specialise in the production of English County cheeses.
- Tassie Trio
- Rubicon Red
- Golden Valley
- Crumbly Tasty
Flavour - Combination of Rubicon Red, Lancashire and Golden Valley to create a mellow flavoured cheese providing variety in colour and flavour.
Texture - Firm texture, good for slicing.
Wine and Drinks Suggestions - Wine, Chardonnay. Beer,Pilsner. Cider, Medium.
Serving Suggestions - 3 in 1 nature of this cheese makes it a perfect addition to platters and parties to add variety in colour, flavour and texture.
Taste - A Red Leicester style of cheese traditionally bright orange in colour through the use of a vegetable colouring called annatto.
Texture - Firm texture, good for slicing.
Wine and Drinks Suggestions - Wine, Chardonnay. Beer, Pilsner Cider, Medium
Serving Suggestions - Bold colouring creates a statement on cheese boards and platters. Good melting cheese.
Flavour - A Double Gloucester style cheese with a rich golden colour and mellow buttery flavour. Named 2008 & 2009 Australian Grand Dairy Awards Champion Cheddar style cheese.
Texture - Firm texture, good for slicing.
Wine and Drinks Suggestions - Wine, Chardonnay. Beer, Pilsner. Cider, Medium.
Serving Suggestions - Bright colour provides excellent contrast for platters & cheese boards. Good melting cheese.
Flavour - A Lancashire style cheese with a strong acidic flavour that creates real “bite”.
Texture - Very crumbly as it ages. Pale in colour.
Wine and Drink Suggestion - Wine, Gewurtztraminer. Beer, Pale Ale. Cider, Sweet.
Serving Suggestion - Excellent melting cheese. Ideal for creating a strong cheese flavour for all cooking and melting dishes.