"Country Cheeses is a jewel" - Henrietta Green, author and food writer for BBC Good Food

          COUNTRY CHEESES

                       maturing and selling artisan cheese

          The Home of 'Real' Cheese

Currently with shops in Tavistock and Topsham, and Totnes.

One of the main reasons we started working with cheesemakers and selling their cheese was because we could not easily get hold of this wonderful product, despite living in the heart of Devon.  We have worked for over 17 years at making cheese more accessible for anybody wanting more than just something to chew on, something in fact that will excite the palate and the mind, our sort of cheese is cheese with soul. Now we feel the time is right to spread our net even wider and send 'real' cheese to those of you who do not have much access to it.  We hope you enjoy your shopping experience, and please be aware that there is always a team of happy, helpful 'Cheese operatives' in the shops to answer questions or take your order should you not wish to order over the internet.

Christmas 08 has been and gone, the credit crunch became the big cheese munch! We were very fortunate to be in 'cheese world ' as many others did not fare so well. Artisan cheese is more than factory produced stuff but, that is exactly what it is, More, you get more taste, more flavour and more satisfaction and it holds a respect that cheap stuff can't possibly live with. People do not poke it to the back of the fridge because it's indifferent qualities will not draw them to an experience of food passion, that's why we did well in comparison to other businesses I guess, a bit less of something really good is so much better than a humongous bit of indifference. Our cheesemakers are truly great. Real cheese engages, enthralles and is unquestionably a national treasure. I will get off my soapbox now!

I have no need to alter this next bit from the previous writings "When as I write this it rains, cold and blowy and my window panes are opaque with running water brrr!"

Yep, still cold, still rainy and my windows are still fogged up, roll on spring when the fields can be walked on without that 'squelch, squelch' sound, the birds chirp in a "hey guys the suns out and there's some good looking prospects flying around" sort of way And we can take the first ride out on the old motorbike without the danger of frostbite!

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I have left the following bit in so you can plan your summer hols!

Our fantastic bunch of British cheese loving customers (that sounds like the customers are all British, we also have non Brits who have woken up to the smell of Brit cheese too!) ask when our fab cheese show is so they can organise the annual visit to these parts, or make sure no other arrangements clash with it. Also makes me feel warmer, thinking of summer...... All that soft white bloomy rinded cheese running and lusious, Wedges of wonderful cheddar and pickled onions with big hunks of crusty bread, time for lunch I think...

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               Tavistock 'Real' Cheese Fair

So lucky are we to live in such a beautiful part of the country and all that it offers, may we invite you to our fab cheese fair?

We organise this event annually at the end of August on the bank holiday weekend, . This Fair gives you the opportunity to meet over twenty five of the country's coolest, wickedest and awesome-est artisan cheesemakers and taste their cheeses.  With live music, wines, cider and ale to accompany the cheese our unique fair is widely acclaimed and opens the door to cheese heaven. an event you do not want to miss! Relaxed, informative and generally, a cheesetastic day out. What Woodstock was to real music, Tavi-stock is to real cheese! See you there.                          

                      The Tavistock 'Real' Cheese Fair 2008