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Old Winchester

Cheese Type HardVegetarian
Vegetarian Yes
Milk
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£7.00£27.95

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  • About Old Winchester

    Also known as Old Smales, Old Winchester is an older version of Winchester. This is now a much dryer harder and crystalline cheese, becoming more reminiscent of an old gouda with a distinctive nuttiness in flavour, however it is a product of evolution and need. Because Old Winchester is made with a vegetarian rennet, on a number of occasions the cheese is being sold, and used as a vegetarian replacement for a hard Italian cheese, and yet can still be used as a table cheese, it has that bit more versatility.


About Our Supplier

In 1952 the Smales family bought and moved to a small 50 acre farm called Little Buckholt, close to the village of West Tytherley, in Hampshire. Starting with 3 Gurnsey cows, Faith, Hope and Beatrix, they milked the cows, twice a day, every day since that year, 3 generations and spanning more than 60 years. In 1969 they took on Lyburn Farm, starting with about 270 acres and 200 cows

Additional Information

All our products come directly from our shop based in the small village of Cartmel, just outside the Lake District national park. Our shop is temperature controlled between 12-14 degrees to allow maturation of all of our cheeses.

Every single cheese on this website has been hand-picked and tasted by our in-house cheese experts to ensure that they are truly special – we hope you enjoy them as much as we do!