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Milleens Cheese 200g
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Milleens Cheese 200g

€6.45

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Description

Milleens is a soft, washed-rind cheese made from cows milk on the rugged Beara peninsula of South West Ireland. The complex and delicate cheese is made from the milk of Friesian cows grazing the mountains and pastures of the peninsula. Milleens is the longest established Irish farmhouse cheese.
“A washed rind whole milk cheese from the mountainous Beara Peninsula of West Cork . . . rich, floral taste . . . sweet taste . . . and firm to creamy texture . . . real depth and body . . . wonderful pink orangey rind.”- Juliet Harbutt, the Specialist Cheese makers’ Association Guide to the Cheeses of Britain and Ireland

The cheese should be kept refrigerated and allowed to come to room temperature before eating. It continues to ripen and soften for up to three months after being made.

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Story of the Producers

  • Milleens Farmhouse Cheese

    We’ve been making cheese on our farm since 1974 – the longest established farmhouse cheese in Ireland. Milleens is a soft to semi-soft washed-rind cheese made from cows milk on the rugged Beara peninsula of South West Ireland. The complex and delicate cheese is made from the milk of Friesian cows grazing the mountains and pastures of the peninsula. The method we use to make our cheese – brine washing – is the same method that Irish monks took with them in the seventh century when they founded the great monestaries in Western Europe and created iconic cheeses such as Munster in France which is very similar to Milleens Cheese. This surface ripened cheese should be kept refrigerated and allowed to come to room temperature for an hour or two before eating. It continues to ripen and soften for up to three months after being made. The rind is a rich orange-brown color and frequently slightly sticky, with a wrinkled appearance. The flavour of the cheese is less strong than the aroma would indicate. The rind is edible and has a stronger flavour than the paste.  It is often described as ‘barnyardy’. The paste is smooth and especially when young, buttery and mildly lactic in taste.  It develops more complex flavours when mature varying according to the season in which it is made.  In Spring and Summer this can be flowers, herbs and grass giving way to hay and moss for the Autumn and Winter mature cheese. Milleens pairs well with crisp dry white wines, dessert wines and Belgian style ales. In 1974 the Steeles, Veronica and Norman, moved to Milleens, a farm located near Eyeries on the rugged Beara Peninsula in South West Ireland. Although Veronica had already been making cheese before then it was only after much experimentation that Veronica found that the conditions of the West Cork area naturally suited the production of washed rind cheese. Initially made from the milk of one cow, the reputation of her cheese, unusual in Ireland at the time, spread which allowed her to purchase more animals and so produce more cheese.  In time she was followed by two other washed rind cheese makers in West Cork  each adapting the cheese making process to produce their own variant of the cheese. http://matthewocallaghan.com/welcome/

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