Made in Gloucestershire
Rollright is a soft washed rind wrapped in spruce bark made by King Stone Dairy in England.
Manor Farm in Gloucestershire is home to a small herd of 30 cows and a farmhouse dairy called King Stone Dairy. The dairy run by David Jowett currently makes 4 cheeses, including Rollright and Evenlode.
Wrapped in spruce bark
Inspired by the French classic Vacherin du Haut-Doubs, Rollright is a soft cheese banded in spruce bark.
At the dairy, David uses fresh cow’s milk from the herd of mostly Swiss Brown cows. After adding starter cultures and rennet to the milk, he cuts the curd and moulds the cheese.
After roughly one day, he removes the wheels from the mould, adds salts and wraps them in spruce cambium. Moreover, the spruce will help the cheese keep its shape during the maturation process.
Unique aroma and flavour
Within the first few days, colonies of yeast start to form on the surface. In time, they will make a major contribution to the aroma and flavour of the cheese.
Meanwhile, the affineur turns each wheel of cheese daily and washes them with a brine solution for the next 4 weeks. At 4 weeks, the wheels form a consistent natural rind and their pâte starts to soften.
At this point, Rollright has a gorgeous orange rind and a robust yeasty and forest floor aroma. In addition to this, its straw-coloured pâte is decadently unctuous and has woody and milky notes on the palate with a hint of peanut.
How to pair Rollright
Enjoy with a Saison beer or New World Pinot Noir. While Rollright is fantastic on its own, you can also serve it as part of an all English cheese platter with Stilton and Cornish Yarg.
