Hit me with your top cheeses

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I'm hosting Christmas Eve this year. We tend to do a really nice cheeseboard. Any suggestions? My favourites are Tor, Smoking Ember, wild garlic Yarg and a mildish Stilton.

Doux de Montagne

Manchego with truffle or black garlic. Bliss!

Gosh, I'd totally forgotten about goats gouda since having children and no longer shopping in Waitrose! Bloody lovely stuff, that is.

@WeavingShed I had a baked Savoie in Embrun this summer. Well it was amazing!
Following this post with cheese filled eyes!
I love Red Fox Red Leicester, Boursin with figs and nuts (not sure where to get this in UK), Comte and a Wensleydale.

Anyone got a good website for cheese ordering? We have a Booths but it's quite small and I don't recognise a lot of these (perhaps they aren't Northern enough)

Waitrose Kaltbach no 1, love it!

Catches cheese and takes a big bite and offers Blacksticks Blue

Vignotte

Thanks OP. Starving now… And we don’t have any crackers in the house.

Dolcelatte
Goes really well with the biggest salami platter ever 😁

And I like a nice gingery chutney.
I did find a chilli and pineapple chutney last year that was fab with a nice strong cheddar.

Comte
Cambozola
Blacksticks blue
A smoked cheese
A strong regional English cheese

Comté - not the supermarket stuff which is okay but the stuff from a real cheese shop, which is out of this world.

Mild blue Stilton (though I fancy trying the unpasturised Stichelton mentioned above instead.

Quartz cheddar

Pie de L'angloys

A garlic and herb cheese - Usually Boursin or roulé but I love the look of that Green Thunder linked above.

Good variety of crackers, pickles, chutneys and grapes.

This thread is brilliant. So many good ideas. I am not even the cheese lover in our family - everyone else is. But I want to try so many of these.

If you can find Gaperon anywhere in the UK (without it costing a day's wages) it's the best cheese on the world. I will take no arguments.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Godminster cheese? (Have I missed it?) It’s cheddar but the most delicious cheddar ever, no cheese board is complete without it!

Another black bomber fan here, but they also make a whisky infused one which is utterly fabulous - amber must. I have also had a Lancashire bomb which was another amazing wax wrapped cheese.

I also like a triple creme cheese if I can get it - something like a delice de Bourgogne.

For a terrifying but amazing cheese, picos de Europa blue is great. It's so blue though, you have to eat it fast or it just turns grey. You need some serious cheese lovers to justify this one.

I've had an amazing Gouda with pesto before as well. It's bright green which adds some interest to the cheeseboard.

Stokes chutney is also excellent while you're at it.

Sorry! DH and I had a mini cheeseboard in bed last night. Because why not? It was a seriously indulgent experience.

I also like the Castello pineapple cream cheese. Not everything has to be naice! Tasty is more important.

@drspouse we usually order from White Lake Cheese or

...or the Bedford Cheese Company.

Delice de Bourgogne, Cremeux de Bourgogne - double cream Brie like gooey fabulousness!

Oh my god we should all start a club. Hear me out on this one, this year I had goats cheese spread on rose Turkish delight cubes. My good god. It’s the best thing I’ve ever eaten. You’ve also got to try putting some blue cheese in your mince pie, a slice of cheddar on your Christmas cake slice, and you’ve got to try this one too, spread your Gouda on fudge, trust. Me.!!

Cave aged cheddar and Brie with truffle

Oops, hit Post to soon. A strong Stilton too

My vote too!

I had a Norfolk mardler this year (a hard goats cheese) and it blew my mind.

https://www.thenorfolkcheesecompany.co.uk/product/norfolk-mardler-goats-cheese/

Mont d'or, currently in stock at m&s, its seasonal so grab one while you can. Beautifully creamy, comes circled in leather in the wooden box. We also all love some Port Salut!