The Cheshire Cheese Company has scooped a Great Taste award for its Black Bob Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese Biscuits.
The prestigious awards – open to entrants across the UK – sample the very best food from numerous categories to crown the creme de la creme of the finest eats the country has to offer.
Great Taste is the largest and most trusted food & drink accreditation scheme. It supports and promotes food & drink producers, large and small, giving buyers and food lovers in the UK and overseas reliable recommendations for great tasting food.
Nantwich-based firm – The Cheshire Cheese Company launched its complimentary range of biscuits for cheese last year, and developed three flavours -Black Bob, Caramelised Onion and Ale and Mustard – to match some of its best-loved cheese truckles.
All three come in 140g boxes and are available nationwide in the finest delis, garden centres, farm shops, artisan markets and online.
“Pleasing golden bake”
Judges who were impressed with the look and taste of the biscuits, said: “These are well-baked biscuits, with a pale gold centre and a touch of deeper gold around the edge.
“We can smell the cheese, which is a good thing, and it comes through well in the flavour, too, which is well balanced. They are good and crunchy and the texture has a wheaty sweetness as well as savouriness.
“There’s a good snap with a pleasingly tight texture to these biscuits and with a distinctively Cheddar creaminess on the back notes. The consistency of the biscuits is good and thin, they have a pleasing golden bake and a good, long finish. These are clever little things that would find a good home anywhere”.
Highly regarded
Simon Spurrell, founder and managing director of The Cheshire Cheese Company, said: “Winning these highly regarded awards year after year is something we’re really proud of. The Block Bob Mature Cheddar Cheese Crackers, which uses the cheese we make on our Farm in Nantwich.
“As one of only a few true Farm to Fork wax truckle cheese makers our accompaniments are as important as our handmade cheese. We carefully develop our products over time with a bid to make the perfect base for our cheeses, and I’m proud to say this award shows we’ve succeeded.
The Cheshire Cheese Company was founded in 2010 and produces artisan cheeses in its signature waxed truckles as well as complementary chutneys and now cheese biscuits. Hampers and celebration ‘cheese’ cakes are available to order.
