Fermented Friends
£ 5.00 [55mins] • Sat @ 1130 • Sun @ 1400

Great handcrafted ciders and great artisan cheese, with their centuries-old traditions in the UK, should offer great gastronomic unions.  So how do they match up?  Does a firm, sharp cider go with a salty, blue or sparkling ‘Méthode Champenoise’ perry with a soft white rinded goat cheese?  Do local cheeses go with their cider counterparts?

The permutations are endless and with no hard and fast rules, Stewart Lucas of Blaengawney Farm Cider will attempt to bring some sense of order to this very personal subject.  Not for those who think cider comes from a tin or cheese comes in strings!  www.welshcider.co.uk

Smooth, Suave & So Grown Up
£ 5.00 [55mins] • Sat @ 1230

Tim Jones [Lincolnshire Poacher] and Catherine Mead [Lynher Dairies Cheese Co] have put together a tasting designed to tingle the taste buds and the brain cells!  So come and discover the difference between strength and complexity? Find out if strong is the same as complex and what affects the depth of flavour in different cheeses.

 

To answer these intriguing question they will be offering a taste of cheeses of varying strengths made in totally different ways from all around the country alongside a tipple to clear your palate if not your head. www.lincolnshirepoachercheese.com and www.lynherdairies.co.uk

Rising Stars
£ 5.00 [55mins] • Sat @ 1330 • Sun @ 1500

Juliet Harbutt, author of the new book “World of cheese” and chief judge and organiser of the British Cheese Awards is in a unique position to see which cheeses are rising from the ranks and heading towards stardom.  From nearly 900 cheeses entered in this year’s awards Juliet has selected 10 artisan cheeses to share with you. 

 

These including Blue Monday, the blue cube she created for Evenlode the company she formed with Alex James, a hard goat “cheddar” from Quickes,  an unusual ewes milk and some Irish stunners.  A passionate and amusing speaker this is a definite must for cheese lovers.

www.thecheeseweb.com

 
The Tall & The Short of It
£ 5.00 [55mins] • Sat @ 1430

As chief judge and organiser of the British Cheese Awards Juliet Harbutt is in a unique position to see which cheeses are rising from the ranks and heading towards stardom. From 910 cheeses entered in this years’ awards Juliet has selected just 10 to share with you including Farleigh Wallop the cheese she makes with Alex James.

A passionate and amusing speaker this is a definite must for cheese lovers and comes to you thanks to the support of Madame Fromage Cardiff’s best loved cheese shop [just opposite the castle gate] www.madamefromage.com

SPEED DATING
£ 5.00 [55mins] • Sat @ 1530 • Sun @ 1200

Participants are invited by cheese guru Juliet Harbutt to discover for themselves the perfect partner to their favourite cheese.  Taking 6 cheeses, one from each of the main categories, you will have a chance to match it with a range of drinks from whiskey to rosé Port.  All you need is an open mind and a willingness to experiment with new partners! 

 

There will be no heart breaks in this session but some myths and misconceptions about the perfect partner will be exposed! www.thecheeseweb.com

Elegant, Subtle & Nutty
£ 5.00 [55mins] • Sat @ 1630 • Sun @ 1230

Peter Humphries of White Lake Cheese makes Award-winning goats cheeses including Rachel and the Wallops for the Evenlode Partnership.  He loves to create new cheeses and believes he can convince even the most stubborn goat cheese sceptic that goats’ milk cheeses can be subtle elegant and nutty rather than strong and aggressive.

 

So join him in a wonderful tasting of 7 incredibly different goats’ cheeses from across Britain made by small and large producers. www.evenlodepartnership.co.uk