Baron Bigod (Whole Cheese)

Baron Bigod is an exquisite Suffolk-made, bloomy, pasteurised cows milk cheese in the style of a classic Brie de Meaux. A full-flavoured soft cheese with a nutty, mushroomy rind, its smooth, silky golden paste will often ooze out over a fresh, citrussy centre. Expect long-lasting flavours of warm earth, farmyard and mushroom, with occasional notes of citrus and truffle.

It is a large wheel, 28cm across, made with the delicate milky flavours of Montbeliarde cows milk. That milk is protein-rich and ideal for cheesemaking, and in France the same traditional breed produces some of the finest cheeses in the world, Comte and Vacherin Mont d'Or among them.

Baron Bigod is hand-made by Jonny and Dulcie Crickmore, a third generation family farm in Bungay, Suffolk, aiming to set the standard for dairy sustainability. They use only gravity-fed milk to protect the fragile fat globules during production, with no pumps at any stage. The curds are hand-ladled into large round moulds using traditional pelle-a-brie ladles, then hand salted and aged in a humid, cave-like environment.

Please note: This is a whole wheel of Baron Bigod Brie, and weighs ~2.7kg