Cheeses of the North

Ravens Oak We feature Ravens Oak Dairy cheeses fairly regularly on our cheese boards in the restaurants, as they make a perfect mellow match to most hard and blue cheeses, without taking over the board. Mike and Sandra Allwood have run the dairy since 1999, and are the eighth generation of the farming family. Nowadays, they keep only an organic flock of cattle on their 230-acre estate near Nantwich, and have a portfolio of a dozen or so cheeses made from cows’, sheep’s and goats’ milk, and they also make cheese from the milk of water buffalo. (Imagine running into one of them in Cheshire — well, we did and it scared the hell out of us.)