Forest Showcase cheese

Simon Jones of the Forest Deli in Coleford talks hand-made cheese.

Transcript

00:00These are handmade cheeses, and they taste different as the year changes.

00:07Whether it's silage in the winter, it makes the milk slightly different, different fat contents and things like that.

00:15So it slightly changes through the year, the flavours change through the year.

00:19Especially some of the goat's cheeses, the flavours, there are about five or six different flavours through the year.

00:26Because goats obviously just eat whatever's in front of them.

00:29So they've eaten the grass, when it's wild garlic season, they're eating wild garlic.

00:34There's one, sadly, the guy named David Devon, this wonderful cheese, and for about six or eight weeks,

00:42there's this wonderful wild garlic flavour in it.

00:45And people go, can you have that? And it's like, well no, because it's not wild garlic season anymore.

00:50They've eaten all that, now they're eating nettles.

00:53So the cheese just changes. I think again, that's the joys of proper cheese.

01:00It doesn't always taste exactly the same, it's not always exactly the same consistency, but it's always good.