Soft & Washed Rind Cheese

A thin and wrinkled rind, an earthy fragrance, and a vegetal flavour. Described by Raymond Blanc as “the best Camembert in the world”, but the quality of the cheese will convince any Frenchman that it was made on his terroir.

Delicate and milky, but rich. Gently pull this cheese apart, and the liquid cream centre will spill onto your plate. Burrata di Bufala has a delicate milky taste, and just a hint of acidity to freshen the palate.

Rich, ice cream texture. Buttery, with crème fraiche notes maturing to meaty ‘mushroom’. The Lincet family have been making cheese in Burgundy for the past 125 years, and this utterly decadent triple cream is a speciality. The smaller cheeses have a marvellously thin geotrichum rind, while the larger cheeses pick up the spicier flavours of a downy white penicillium coat.

At first fresh and citrusy, but maturing to minerally with a snowkissed appearance. Neal’s Yard Creamery is not in London. Newly independent, 30 years ago it settled in a beautiful location on Dorstone Hill, overlooking the River Wye in Herefordshire. The cheese takes its name from this rural idyll.              

Soft and yielding, with a creamy flavour. The cheese of choice for Admiral Lord Nelson and his family, having frequent references in their correspondence. The original recipe recommended using a feather to apply salt to the surface.

Smooth, milky and delicate. This is a washed curd cheese, which means that a proportion of whey is substituted with water during the make. This enhances the smoothness of the texture and the gentle delicacy of the flavour.

Soft and creamy with a wrinkled rind. More buttery in winter, and more vegetal in summer. Julie Cheyney told us this cheese was named after the patron saint of lost causes. Clearly St. Jude was listening; this cheese is heaven-sent.

Glossy, yielding paste. Gently sweet and buttery. Originally made with Guernsey milk from the nearby Duke of Wellington’s estate, home to the family since it was acquired by the first Duke, a few years after the battle of Waterloo in 1817.

Soft, silky and creamy. When a cheese is eaten as freshly and as simply as mozzarella, it has to be perfect. Our mozzarella is made from 100% buffalo milk to provide a silky, soft texture and a delicate creaminess.

Smooth, supple and buttery. Pungent from a cider wash.

Smooth in texture, with a lemony note in the flavour. Kent’s quarries are known for a hard grey limestone called Ragstone. Charlie Westhead’s first dairy was nearby but thankfully this Ragstone is soft and creamy.

Luscious, with notes of citrus. A cheese with an ice-cream texture and the richness of a triple cream. The mixed milk adds a pungency of aroma, and depth.

Ivory in colour, mousse-like in texture, and a fresh citrus flavour that develops notes of almonds as it ages. Judged the eleventh best cheese in the world at the 2022 World Cheese Awards, and recipient of the Ann-Marie Dyas Award, sponsored by The Fine Cheese Co., for the World’s Best Artisan Cheese. Winner of Best Goat Cheese at the 2026 Artisan Cheese Awards.

Luxurious, ice-cream texture that matures from crème fraîche to clotted cream. The addition of double cream makes this cheese hard to resist. Made by Rose Grimmond, a relation of Ian Fleming of James Bond fame. But don’t just keep it For Your Eyes Only.

A fabulously full-flavoured Brie-style cheese, hand-made in Suffolk by Jonny Crickmore from the milk of his own herd of Montbeliarde cows.

Silky smooth. Washed in brine and cider. Cider from Yarlington Mill apples from Herefordshire has helped David Jowett make a cheese in Gloucestershire, reminiscent of Reblochon from the Haute-Savoie in France. Fromage sans frontières. Reserve Champion and Best Export Cheese at the British and Irish Cheese Awards 2026

Awarded 'Best Soft White Cheese', 'Best Export Cheese' and 'Reserve Champion' at The British Cheese Awards 2025. A firm and silky texture and a fresh citrus flavour when young; and a denser, creamier and deeper flavour as it matures. Kevin and Alison Blunt’s goats feed on a diet of pasture and hay all year round, never silage. This natural diet results in high quality milk and a sublime and complex cheese.

Earthy and full-flavoured, with protracted finish. A cheese in the style of Brie de Meaux, made by Jonny Crickmore at Fen Farm. From the cutting of the curds to using the traditional pelle-à-brie ladle, everything is done by hand.

Light and mousse-like, with hints of citrus. An ashed disc with a beautifully thin, wrinkled coat and a dense paste, with a texture reminiscent of the finest ganache. The flavour is every bit as good: nutty, complex and lingering.

Sticky, savoury and slightly floral. Washed in Marc de Bourgogne, this baby brother of Époisses possesses the same pungent quality but can easily be consumed in one sitting. Helpful for avoiding an ‘aromatic’ fridge.

Citrusy and only lightly goaty with gentle minerality.

Moussey and rich. Sweetly herbal. Approachable saltiness With a nod towards the cheeses of Provence, this quenelle of young goats’ cheese is given just a touch of thyme oil. It is then ripened only to the point that the herbal quality lingers without dominating the milky flavour of the cheese itself.

Soft and silky. Both milky and savoury. For Rodolphe, an AOP status can get in the way of experimenting with a much-loved cheese. This is a Selles-sur-Cher in all but name, yet Rodolphe’s maturation brings balance and greater complexity.

Delicate and creamy. Tradition and milks combine to make this little charcoal cheese. Three separate milks are used, that of cows, goats and sheep, and ash is then sprinkled on the young cheeses to form a stylish and characteristic rind.

Unctuous under the rind, and a slight acidity of flavour. Langres has a characteristic dip at the top, which is caused by the fact that the cheese is only turned once during maturation. The dip is not, as some say, intended as a receptacle for Champagne.

Rich and aromatic. Melt-in-the-mouth texture. Inspired by Persian Fetta (softer, creamier and more buttery than the Greek), Graceburn is steeped in vivid yellow, coldpressed, British rapeseed oil, infused with thyme, garlic, bay and pepper.

Rich and delicately textured, with a subtle, herbaceous complexity. Rodolphe ages his cheeses to the palates of his customers. For us Brits, Rodolphe ensures St. Maure is creamy, savoury and contained by only a wafer-thin rind.

Clean and buttery with vegetal and cooked ‘mushroom’ notes. A cows’ milk robiola is a rarity, but this little dollop tempts easily. Made only from the milk of Piemontese herds and spritzed with annatto before ripening, its gently vegetal flavours pair perfectly with the local roasted hazelnuts.

Fresh, silky, slightly milky. From their own herd of water buffalo reared on the farm, and left free to range the lush green Somerset pastures.

Rich, ice-cream texture. Light and fresh, then ripening to include ‘mushroom’ notes. Made in the style of a French double-cream cheese, and named by cheesemaker Charlie Westhead after his dog.

Smooth and creamy, and mildly nutty. Best 'Flavour Added Cheese' at the British and Irish Cheese Awards 2026

Earthy and full-flavoured, with protracted finish. A cheese in the style of Brie de Meaux, made by Jonny Crickmore at Fen Farm. From the cutting of the curds to using the traditional pelle-à-brie ladle, everything is done by hand.

Glossy and smooth, with a wrinkled rind, this pasteurised Brie offers a rich texture and a lightly vegetal, mushroomy flavour. Made in small batches by the third-generation Dongé family in Meuse, it is a fine example of French Brie.

Plump and hearty. Salty and 'yeasty'. Made on a family farm with only 200 lively goats, this speciality of the South is aromatised with rosemary oil, then dried and ripened in Rodolphe le Meunier’s caves.

Milky and springy, and simultaneously sweet and savoury. The name ‘Halloumi’ is restricted by PDO, and so Tim Homewood and Angela Morris had to be creative when naming this cheese, but production is just as painstaking.

Clean and buttery, with a decadent texture. Enriched with a touch of cream, this mixed milk robiola is utterly luscious. Accompanied by a chilled glass of Moscato d’Asti, it’s Piemontese summer on a plate.

Selected by award-winning affineur Rodolphe Le Meunier, this soft-ripened Camembert is made from pasteurised cow’s milk. Its bloomy rind encases a rich, glossy paste with buttery, earthy flavours and delicate mushroom notes.

Lusciously rich and headily aromatic. The addition of black winter truffle and a drop of truffle oil elevates this delicious Persian-inspired cheese to heights of decadence that would please even the King of Kings, Cyrus the Great.

Rich, velvety, and spoonably soft, Vacherin Mont d’Or has a luscious, buttery texture with deep savoury notes and a gentle, resinous aroma from its spruce bark.

Supple and savoury, and melts brilliantly. A cheese was named ‘shield’ after an ancient bronze shield was unearthed near the farm. It was renamed ‘Ogleshield’ after Bill Oglethorpe suggested washing the rind, so creating a British take on Raclette.

Full-flavoured, with honeyed undertones. A unique Raclette made in the Jura mountains and matured by Affineur Walo, it is utterly divine melted over pork, potatoes and pickles.

Rich and heady. Jonny Crickmore combines his cultured double cream with Tartuflanghe summer truffle cream from The Fine Cheese Co. and places them in the centre of a Baron Bigod. *A whole Truffled Baron Bigod weighs approximately 1kg. 250g and 500g are a cut of a whole cheese.

Delicate and smooth. Subtle ‘goatiness’ with a nut-shell finish. Named after a rebellious Christian sect from the Middle Ages and decorated with the region’s Occitan cross. Made by the Fricker family in Saint-Félix-Lauragais and ripened for the thinnest of wrinkled rinds and the complexity of gentle, sweet milk.

Supple and fruity. Historically, cheesemakers would make curd from evening milk, then sprinkle a protective layer of ash on top. The next morning they would make another curd to add to the previous evening’s cheese.Unfortunately, Morbier is currently out of stock. This is due to a temporary ban on the import of French and Italian raw milk soft and semi-soft cheeses due to an outbreak of a disease in cattle. There have been minimal cases, but DEFRA are maintaining a very cautious approach to protect our British herds. Suggested Alternative: Ashcombe.Made in Gloucestershire by celebrated cheesemaker, David Jowett, this cheese shares the distinctive ash line running through the core of the cheese and a similar milky paste and savoury rind. It is also a former Supreme Champion of both the British and Artisan Cheese Awards., A supple-textured, unpasteurised French cheese, with a characteristic line of ash running through it.

Custard-like texture. Lemon and olive flavours. The perfect entry point for anyone yet to try a torta-style cheese. Its Spanish cousins can be pricey and overpowering. Zimbro is approachable and moreish, and comes from Beira Baixa in eastern Portugal.

Smooth and supple. Notes of ‘walnuts’ and ‘meadow flowers’. The flagship cheese of Haute-Savoie. The green label indicates that this is the rare farmstead variety, and it has been washed twice by Fromagerie Joseph Paccard, leading to an intoxicating aroma of leather and spruce. Unfortunately, Reblochon is currently out of stock. This is due to a temporary ban on the import of French and Italian raw milk soft and semi-soft cheeses due to an outbreak of a disease in cattle. There have been minimal cases, but DEFRA are maintaining a very cautious approach to protect our British herds.Suggested Alternative: YarlingtonLovers of Reblochon will surely enjoy this British washed rind cheese with a blush coat and a plump and glossy interior.

Crumbly and tangy. Rich, mouth-filling creaminess.

Fudgy and floral. Malty and meaty. A classic Trappist-style cheese with a twist. Cheesemaker Johan Deweer initially washes this cheese in REX Belgian Blonde Ale, letting hints of malt and hops marry with this already funky wheel.

Available between January - early May. Supple and mouth-coating. Rich, nutty and even meaty at times. Available in Quarter Cut (approx 250g)

Supple and buttery. A sweet milk flavour and a touch of spice. Originally made by monks, and named after a Munster village (from the Latin monasterium). Locals sprinkle on cumin or caraway seeds and enjoy it with a glass of fruity Alsatian white wine.

Sweet and mouth-filling, with notes of ‘hazelnut’. Nurtured by Romain Dubois to grow a soft, fluffy coat. As the cheese becomes firmer, the paste grows denser and the floral flavours are balanced by deeper, nuttier tones, but Crottin is delicious at all ages.