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About The Wensleydale Creamery
At the Wensleydale Creamery we pride ourselves on the quality and authenticity of our products. We are dedicated to ensuring all of our cheeses are made using traditional recipes that have been handed down through the generations.
Skill and art is applied to all our products through the handcrafting process and all our cheeses are matured naturally to give the perfect flavour balance.
Use the links to find out more about Real Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese.
History and Heritage
Wensleydale cheese has been made in Wensleydale since 1150, when Cistercian monks settled in the dale and established a monastery at Fors, just 4 miles from Hawes.
Today, Wensleydale cheese is still handcrafted, to a time-honoured recipe, using milk from local farms, where the cows graze the sweet limestone meadows that are rich in wild flowers, herbs and grasses. It is this herbage that gives the milk, and hence the cheese, its special dales flavour.
Protected Designation of Origin
The term PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) covers the term used to describe foodstuffs which are produced, processed and prepared in a given geographical area using recognised know-how.
The Wensleydale Creamery has applied for PDO status for ‘Yorkshire Wensleydale’
Stamp of Authenticity
Did you know that we, The Wensleydale Creamery only supply 44% of the Wensleydale cheese sold by UK retailers?
We are starting a ‘Making Provenance Matter’ Campaign & introducing the Stamp of Authenticity.
