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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:

Barry's Bay Cheeses
(Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsular)
Evansdale 
(Waikouaiti, North Otago)
Neudorf Dairy
(Upper Moutere)
Blue River Sheep Dairy
(Invercargill, Southland)
Karikaas Dairy Products 
(Loburn, North Canterbury)
Over the Moon Dairy
(Putaruru, Waikato)
Canaan Cheeses 
(Auckland)
Mahoe Cheese 
(Keri Keri, Northland)
Te Mata Cheeses
(Havelock North)
Clevedon Valley Buffalo Co.
(Clevedon)
Meyer Gouda Cheese 
(Hamilton)
Whitestone Cheeses 
(Oamaru)
Crescent Dairy Goats 
(Albany, North Auckland)
Mt Eliza Cheeses
(Kati Kati, Bay of Plenty)
Zany Zeus 
(Lower Hutt)

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

Parmigiano Reggiano 
(Parma region, Italy)
French Raclette
(French Alps)
Dutch Goat Gouda
(Holland)
Berghoff Swiss Raclette
(Switzerland)
Gorgonzola
(Lombardy, Italy)
Pont l'eveque
(Normandy, France)
Grana Padano
(Padua region, Italy)
Livarot
(Normandy, France)
Buffalo Mozzerella
(Southern Italy)
St Vernier
(Jura, France)
La Navarrais Ossau Iraty and Brebis et Chevre
(Pyrenees, France)
Gruyere
(Switzerland)
French Chevre (Crottin various sizes and large log)
(France)
Emmentaler
(Switzerland)
Taleggio
(Lombardy, Italy)
Epoisse
(France)
Forme d'Ambert (blue)
(Averne, France)
Camembert
(Normandy, France)
Roquefort
(South Central France)
Munster
(Alsace, France)
 
 
 
 

We are also the New Zealand importers of English territorial cheeses from Borough Market Foods and Neals Yard Dairy:

Colston Bassett Stilton
(Nottinghamshire)
Colston Bassett Shropshire Blue
(Nottinghamshire)
Quickes Cheddar
(Devon)
Hawes Double Gloucester
(North Yorkshire)
Hawes Wensleydale
(North Yorkshire)
   
Shropshire Blue
Stacks of cheese
Just cut Stilton
Cheddars
Morbier

 

  44 Salisbury St, Christchurch, New Zealand. Ph +64 3 379 0075 © Canterbury Cheesemongers 2010
  Open Tuesday to Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm, closed Sunday, Monday and public holidays.
  Photos by Canterbury Cheesemongers and John Bougen
Last updated
1 February 2010