Collection: Soft & Washed Rind Cheese

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Complex. At the same time, it is rich, vegetal and ‘mushroomy’. Made since 1930 by the Dongé family, one of the cheese’s last seven producers. The Medaille d’Or is an award that might be won once in a lifetime. Family Dongé have won it nine times. Unfortunately, Brie de Meaux 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: Baron Bigod (Click Here)An excellent Montbeliarde milk cheese from Suffolk, made in the style of Brie de Meaux but demonstrably its own unique cheese. A full flavour and a fabulously gooey texture.

A balanced fruity and savoury flavour. Curds from the Wyfe of Bath are pressed, and then washed in cider produced by Graham Padfield from the apples grown in orchards on the family farm.

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.

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.

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.

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.