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Snowdonia Cheese Company Rock Star 150g Extra Mature Cheddar Cheese Truckle with Balsamic Caramelised Onion Chutney

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Buy cheese online from Snowdonia Cheese Company, a family business founded in North Wales in 2001. Browse our online cheese shop to discover our range of award-winning luxury cheeses, traditionally made chutneys, decadent hampers and thoughtful cheese gifts, all ready to be delivered to your door.

Discover our delicious collection of chutneys. Our traditionally made chutneys are each created from carefully sourced, natural ingredients using Snowdonia Cheese Company’s own bespoke recipes. Available in five different flavours, they range from spicy to fruity and sweet: Balsamic Caramelised Onion; Spiced Tomato & Vodka; Rhubarb & Gin; Pear, Date & Cognac; and Fig & Apple. Each one makes a wonderful chutney for a cheeseboard, whether you decant them into a bowl or just spoon them straight from the jar.Alex James is very happy to discuss cheese. He's fluent on the subject. He talks about the evolution of the first cheese ('It happened by accident probably - from horse milk') and about his neighbour Juliet Harbut - 'a wonderful lady, a real mover and shaker in the cheese world.' He tells me that you can't make cheese from human breast milk: 'Oxford University have tried! I once made a very nice cappuccino with it though. Claire had been boozing, and the maternity nurse, who was very bossy, told her that she couldn't use the milk. And there was loads and loads and loads of it, so ...' Cannabis Dispensary Shop UK is your first choice when it comes to buying the best marijuana (aka cannabis, 420, pot, mary jane, ganja) with or without a medical marijuana card. Buy Weed online UK The fact that Alex James has retreated to a farm in the Cotswolds to make cheese is either the most surprising turn-up for the books ever, or a predictable twist in the narrative of the modern celebrity. Formerly the most debauched member of the 1990s Brit Pop set, Alex James pursued a fast and definitively urban lifestyle for a decade. He was famous (the bass player for Blur), very rich, young and pretty, which facilitated all manner of bad behaviour. Women, private-members' clubs, booze and drugs, a rumoured tendency to do things like sleep under the snooker table of London's Groucho Club ... (Did he really do that? 'Yeah! For about a week! Hee hee!') So Roger Crudge and Alex James rebuilt the relevant stone outhouse, and kitted it out with cheese production in mind. They are now in the process of making quantities of Geronimo, a soft cheese (named after James's eldest son) which they hope to have perfected by the end of this month. After that, they have grand plans for other varieties. 'We're starting with soft cheese because it only takes three days to mature, and other cheeses take three to six months. There's one that takes nine or 10 years to mature. But generally, cheese is like champagne - it doesn't get better with age. Cheese goes waxy. Champagne goes sweet. Anyway, my other cheeses - I want to give them all stupid names. Churchill Lady, I like; and Cotswold Slapper. And Rotten Bastard. Oh. Mad Bitch! And, and I want a triangular one called a Wedgie!' He shows me a board, to which is pinned a list of prospective cheese names. He's going to sell them locally, he says; for example, at the Daylesford Farm Shop, the terrifyingly expensive, hilariously over-staffed organic extravaganza owned and run by JCB heiress Lady Bamford. He'd like to sell to Fortnum's, Harrods, the Ivy even. He's spent so much money there over the years, he points out, that it would be nice if they reciprocated. But essentially: 'It's like, equivalent of saying, "Oh, we're just going to make music, and if people listen to it and like it, then great." He laughs. 'I love cheese. And I think, if you know how to make cheese, you're always going to have a bit of cheese, aren't you? Ha ha!'

To create our products, we source only the finest fresh and natural ingredients, taking our inspiration from the lush greenery of beautiful Snowdonia National Park. While we first started out selling our premium Cheddar and Red Leicester cheeses at local markets, we soon won a cult following – as well as multiple awards. Today, our cheeses and chutneys are loved all over the world and can be found in more than 25 countries. We’re proud to offer the full Snowdonia range in our online cheese shop, as well as a carefully selected collection of wines, beers and cheese accompaniments from our favourite guest producers. Where once he had groupies, an entourage and fans, he's now got sheep ('400 at the moment; more in the spring. Aren't they pretty? We put the good-looking ones in the front fields,') a two-year-old son called Geronimo, and six-month-old twins. Where once he had his own plane ('for goodness sake!') he now has a Volvo; where once he had the Groucho, he's now got a cheese factory. Alex James's Next Big Project is making and selling cheese. Alex is showing me round his farm on a freakishly sunny day in autumn. He's lolloping round in a shambolically charming, floppy-fringed manner. He's still very pretty, although arguably not as pretty as this particular bit of the Cotswolds, which is more cliché-inspiring and idyllic than the countryside has any right to be. All of which makes my question a touch irrelevant - but he answers anyway. Balanced THC/CBD strains contain balanced levels of THC, offering mild euphoria alongside symptom relief. These tend to be a good choice for novice consumers seeking an introduction to cannabis’ signature high. Buy Cannabis Online UK.He makes me try a vacherin; 'It's like ice cream, isn't it?' He tells me that Roger Crudge has signed him up for a cheesemaking course, and that he's excited; and that a farmhouse cheese 'is like a living thing.' There's no doubting his enthusiasm for cheese, for country living, and for agriculture, which he thinks 'has branding issues'. We’ve always been fascinated by the art of cave-ageing cheese – and the exceptional flavours it creates – so some time ago we asked our expert cheesemakers to explore our home region of North Wales to find the perfect location for cheese maturation. Eventually, they discovered a former slate mine buried 500ft deep, surrounded by the mountains of Snowdonia National Park and the protected Dark Sky Reserve. THC-dominant strains are primarily chosen by consumers seeking a potent euphoric experience. These strains are also selected by patients treating pain, depression, anxiety, insomnia and more. So, iskumunk k nf you tend to feel anxious with THC-dominant strains or dislike other side effects associated with THC, try a strain with higher levels of CBD

He and Claire move in what passes as a glamorous set in the Cotswolds - a part of Britain which is famously populated by A-listers of the Elizabeth Hurley, Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes and Kate Moss variety, anyway. Claire's best friend has moved to a nearby village, where she's opened a gastro pub with a Babington House-style concern attached. It is, James says, more Notting Hill than Notting Hill round here these days. He takes me to Daylesford Farm Shop, spa and clothing emporium so that we can giggle at the prices and the dog yoga (Doga) books, and the absurdly good-looking staff; and then he spends 50 quid on a Daylesford lunch for us all. He's very hot on marketing. 'I think you could make money from agriculture, if you could get the blueprint on a farm shop right, I really do,' says James. 'Not like Daylesford, where the sheep farmers are too scared to go in! But get it right, replicate, bam bam bam, all over, Pret-A-Manger style.' CBD-dominant strains contain only small amounts of THC, and widely used by those highly sensitive to THC or patients needing clear-headed symptom relief. A year ago, he met Roger Crudge, a local cheese maker of some standing. They were introduced by James's farm manager, Paddy (who has just finished work on Madonna's stables). James wanted to renovate another of the farm's many outhouses. 'But you could spend fifty grand renovating crumbling old buildings but it won't add fifty grand to the property. It's like running a small country, running a farm. It's much more expensive than running around the Groucho or the Ivy. So you've got to be more realistic about a farm. Building a cheese factory made sense.'

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