Cheeses of Wales

Appears in
British Regional Food
British Regional Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2006

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Gorau Glas Cheese This is yet another of Anglesey’s great success stories. I had yet to taste or set eyes on the famous Gorau Glas cheese and eagerly made my way to the farm from the sea salt company. It’s a good job everyone knows each other around here, because I managed to get completely lost on the brief 5-minute car journey.

Margaret Davies, who has always worked the Quirt Dairy Farm with her husband Richard, modestly gave me the rundown on her, thus far, short and highly successful career as a cheese-maker. Her son Huw, who grew up on the family dairy farm and took a banking degree, decided to do his dissertation on a fictitious Welsh cheese-making business. This gave Mum the idea to go on a cheese-making course at the local Coleg Menai Food Technology Centre. The course involved making everything from feta to Brie, and her course homework was creating a blue-veined cheese.