Navarra Smoked Ewe Cheese

Delicious award winning artisanal raw (unpasteurised) sheep milk cheese from Navarra in the Basque region of Northern Spain. A hard pale yellow cheese with a smokey richness that melts in the mouth.

Saval

I was in Aberystwyth again recently and I bought some Saval there. Saval is a rich, pungent and tangy raw-milk cheese made by Caws Teifi Cheese in Ceredigion. It is a rind-washed cheese, which gives it a lovely aroma and a creamy but dense and savoury taste.

Like most of Teifi’s other cheeses, Saval has won an impressive range of awards over the years, including Golds at the World Cheese Awards, and the James Aldridge Memorial Trophy for the Best British Raw Milk Cheese, often seen as the highest accolade in British artisan raw milk cheesemaking.

Caws Teifi was established by John Savage-Onstwedder and his family in the early 1980s and over the past 40 years has become one of the most highly awarded artisan cheesemakers in Britain. It remains a small scale family business, these days led by John’s sons Rob and John-James.