Summerfields Organic

Producer: Botton Village Creamery

Location: Danby, North Yorkshire

Style: Hard

Milk Type: Cow

Milk Treatment: Raw

Tasting Notes: Fudgy, Fermented Fruit, Butterscotch 

Vegetarian: Yes

Made by cheesemaker, Alistair Pearson and his team at Botton Creamery, in Botton Village on the North York Moors, Whitby. 

Botton Village is part of the Camphill Village Trust, a social enterprise for people with disabilities. The village is fully self-sustainable and biodynamic, with each of the 130 residents having a job working on the farms; making and ageing cheese, growing their own produce, working in the shop, as well as making breads and preserves. 

Local boy, Alistair moved to Germany where he learned his cheesemaking skills. He then returned to the village, and using the rich milk from their herd of 46 Dairy Shorthorns, started producing their first cheese; a traditional clothbound farmhouse cheddar, Dale End.

An Alpine-style cheese, with caramel, fermented fruit, nutty flavours.