Ordering Cheese/Gifts for Christmas

Every year we get a number of orders for cheese to be sent or collected. Each year we try and prepare as early as possible so we ask again this year that you get your 'Christmas Cheese Orders' to us as soon as possible.

As an incentive for this any orders received by us on the 21st or 22nd November will receive a 10% discount of their cheese order.

Due to high demand we have had to put a minimum order value (before delivery charge) of £25 (delivery orders only).

Please read the attached document which gives some simple steps to ensuring you receive the cheese you require at the time you wish it to arrive.

CHRISTMAS DETAILS

LAST ORDERING DATES:

For International Orders:
13th December

For Bespoke Hampers/Cheeseboards:
13th December

For Cheeses delivered:
15th December

For Predefined Hampers/Cheeseboards:
15th December

For Cheese Collected: 17th December

Please remember that some cheeses (especially goats cheese, wigmore, waterloo and some small individual cheeses) are in short supply at Christmas. The early you place the order the greater the chance of receiving what you require.

Welcome to the latest issue of the Teddington Cheese Wire. In the last week we have been Sponsoring and Exhibiting at The Restaurant Show in Olympia, London. Our Head Cheesemonger, Richard Adamson gave two presentations a day on cheeses and what makes a successful cheeseboard. It appears the show was a success and we hope that some of the top hotels in London and the UK will now be buying the cheese from The Teddington Cheese.

Christmas will soon be here and we have now produced our Christmas Brochure - if you would like a copy then please e-mail or give us a call 020 8977 6868.

June Free Prize Draw

Many thanks to all the entries we received (136 in total). The winner was: Graham Urquhart. He received a Girolle and tete de Moine

The British Cheese Awards explained

In just 11 years the number of British cheesemakers has doubled and there are now over four hundred unique British cheeses. We now have more than one cheese for every day of the year made from cow, goat, ewe and even buffalo milk.

10 years ago a new competition was founded - the British Cheese Awards.

The objective of the British Cheese Awards is to raise awareness of cheeses made in Great Britain by bringing together the whole of the cheese industry - makers, maturers, retailers, the trade press and now, significantly, the consumer press. The Awards encompass all cheese making from the smallest producer through to large multinational companies, from specialist cheeses destined for the tastiest cheese board through to grated cheddar used on the frozen ready meal at your local supermarket.

This year there were over 750 entries divided into seventeen categories, for example, 'Cheshire Cheese'. One cheese in each category is chosen as the overall winner. In addition each category is sub-divided into a number of different classes - for example, 'Traditional White Cheshire', 'Traditional Coloured Cheshire', etc. All cheese is examined and the best ones are awarded a Bronze, Silver or Gold medal. This year over 220 cheeses received a medal.

Awards are also given for the best Scottish cheese, the best Irish cheese, etc., and from all these winners a Supreme Champion is chosen. The Supreme Champion this year was Montgomery's Extra Mature Cheddar. We have tried for months to stock this cheese but with no success as a limited amount is made. However, we do stock Montgomery's Farmhouse Cheddar.

We will be trying to get some of the Supreme Cheese in November but as you can guess all cheese shops want a wedge.

However, there were a number of cheeses we stock which won the Top Awards and Gold Medals this year. These include:

Best Traditional Cheese - Gorwydd Caerphilly
Best Welsh Cheese - Celtic Promise
Best Semi Soft Cheese - Wigmore
British Hard Ewe's Cheese - Spenwood
Berkswell - Hard Modern Ewe's Cheese
Cornish Blue- Cow's Blue cheese

Other Medal Winners include

Tymsboro - Bronze: Aged Fresh Cheese
Stinking Bishop, Durrus & Gubbeen - Bronze: Semi-soft
Cilowen Organic - Bronze: Modern British Hard Cheese
Lyburns Winchester - Bronze: Modern British Hard Cheese
Cashel & Oxford Blue - Bronze: Cow's Blue Cheese
Celtic Blue - Bronze: Soft White
Cornish Yarg - Bronze: Flavour Added - Savoury

Waterloo - Silver: Cows cheese
Crozier Blue - Silver: Ewe's Blue cheese
Mini Celtic Blue - Silver: Soft White
Single Gloucester - Silver: Hard - Other Territorials
Applewood - Silver: Flavour Added - Smoked

SEPTEMBER PRIZE DRAW

A competition for all our customers (new and existing). Please search the website to tell us via e-mail 'Which cheese won Supreme Champion in 2003'.

Winner will be drawn from all correct entries on 21st November a Balfour Hamper (price £50) to be delivered anywhere in the UK.

CHEESE DOS and DONT'S

• ensure the cheese is ripe for the day you require it;
• keep them at room temperature before serving;
• wrap cheese in wax paper. Clingfilm makes them sweat;
• use several quality cheeses rather than many;
• smaller portions dry out quicker so use larger cuts;
• ask us at Teddington Cheese for advise if not sure.

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