Hard & aged Cow’s milk

Yorkshire Wensleydale

Cistercian in origin, saved from closure in the 1990s by a cartoon.

Drawn by the app from this cheese’s own record — paste, rind and texture come from the data, not a stock library.

Brought to Wensleydale by Cistercian monks from Roquefort, who made it with sheep's milk; it went over to cow's milk centuries later. The Hawes creamery closed in 1992 and was bought back by its managers, whose fortunes were transformed when Wallace and Gromit made the cheese a national joke.

Mild, honeyed and crumbly with a fresh acidity. Traditionally eaten with fruit cake in Yorkshire, an arrangement outsiders find alarming and then adopt.

Tastes of

honey fresh milk a clean lemony acidity

Put it next to

Fruit cake Apple pie Dry cider Cranberry