The Cheeses

The cheeses we sell come from makers who care about what they are doing.  Most are hand made, the result of endless tweaking of recipes by people who are both skilled and passionate.  Small scale cheesemaking isn't very lucrative, it's a craft which, if you're lucky, rewards with the satisfaction of producing great cheese. 

As affineurs we take on the job of ripening these cheeses.  We provide the proper conditions for them to age and develop all their potential flavour.  We don't suffocate a cheese in plastic or wax but allow it to develop a natural rind of mould and bacteria. This is what people have done since cheesemaking started - this is how you get better, more interesting and delicious cheese. 

As an independent cheesemonger, we don't stock the whole range of any one cheesemaker - just the ones that we particularly like. When we get a delivery we assess the cheeses and decide how long we need to keep them. Some are ready to sell straight away while others need to be matured in our storerooms for up to 2 years.

This is a list of the cheesemakers in New Zealand we regularly have cheese from:

To complement our New Zealand cheeses we also stock various imported ones (not all available at any one time) including:e) including:

We are also the New Zealand importers of British territorial cheeses from Neal's Yard Dairy: