Virtual Cheese Awards' Supreme Champions Hamper
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The Virtual Cheese Awards (VCA) was set up initially as a response to the Covid 2020 lockdown, to help provide a platform for artisan cheesemakers to launch their new cheeses.
The awards now happen every year – and two of Feltham's Farm's cheeses, Renegade Monk and La Fresca Margarita – won Supreme Champion in both 2020 and 2021.
The three cheeses in the current VCA hamper are a celebration of the diversity of great artisan British cheesemaking. Inside you'll find:
- Supreme Champion 2020 - Renegade Monk is a multi-award winning soft, blue, organic cow’s cheese, drunkenly washed in ale. It is most often compared to an Epoisses, but with an added hint of (occasionally visible) blue.
- Supreme Champion 2021 - La Fresca Margarita. An organic “queso fresco” inspired by the team's travels in Spain, and Latin America. It’s a lemony, fresh cheese, which is equally good drizzled with honey and figs, or used as a filling in a Mexican tacos.
- Supreme Champion 2022 - Keen's Extra Mature Cheddar. This Traditional Unpasteurised Cheddar was awarded Supreme Champion in the 2022 Virtual Cheese Awards. This cheddar follows a a fifth generation recipe (a closely guarded secret!), and is moist, tangy and powerful. The truckles are clothbound and matured for 12 months giving a rich creamy flavour with a hint of citrus to finish.
- One Pack of Biscuits - Included in your box is a pack of suitably selected cheese biscuits.
Feltham's Farm is a non-traditional Organic cheesemaker in Somerset making multi-award winning cheeses. Inspired by a love of food and travelling, Marcus and Penny make cheese including the famous Renegade Monk (an Epoisse with a touch of blue), Rebel Nun (delicately bathed in ale), Gert Lush (a soft Camembert) and La Fresca Margarita (a Queso Fresco).
Sustainability is at the heart of everything they do - whey from the cheese making process is used to feed their free-range pigs, the cheesery operates on 40KW of solar panels, batteries, and ground source heat pumps, and all local deliveries are made using their electric van.