Artisan Cheese Award Winners 2026

Soft and creamy with a wrinkled rind. More buttery in winter, and more vegetal in summer. Julie Cheyney told us this cheese was named after the patron saint of lost causes. Clearly St. Jude was listening; this cheese is heaven-sent.

Ivory in colour, mousse-like in texture, and a fresh citrus flavour that develops notes of almonds as it ages. Judged the eleventh best cheese in the world at the 2022 World Cheese Awards, and recipient of the Ann-Marie Dyas Award, sponsored by The Fine Cheese Co., for the World’s Best Artisan Cheese. Winner of Best Goat Cheese at the 2026 Artisan Cheese Awards.

Creamy yellow, with a rich, buttery-crumble texture. A truly old-fashioned Lancashire made traditionally with a two-day curd recipe. (Curd from a second day’s milk is added to that from the first, to produce a more complex flavour.)

Winner of Best Organic Cheese at the 2026 Artisan Cheese Awards. Awarded 'Champion Retailer Product' at The British Cheese Awards 2025. Moist and smooth, floral and grassy. Sweet tones balanced by bolder farmy notes. Made from milk from the farm’s own herd, and matured in hay, which is hand cut from a diverse grass and wildflower meadow and dried on the farm, Witheridge in Hay is a unique distillation of place and time.

Sweet and nutty.

Available between January - early May. Supple and mouth-coating. Rich, nutty and even meaty at times. Available in Quarter Cut (approx 250g)