Father's Day Cheese Box

Give Dad something delicious this Father’s Day! He’ll get four of our favourite cheeses – including our once-a-year Marc – plus two tasty condiments to enjoy with them.

MARC 200g

Marc is the fancy name for the grapes after you have fermented and pressed them to make wine. Basically they are just skins and seeds but still have heaps of great flavour and aroma (imagine how the inside of a winery smells!)

We only make this cheese once a year during vintage and this year we have used pinot noir marc from Nick and Jeremy Dineen's own wine. We press it onto the rind and put it back on the shelf to mature. Turning and rubbing this cheese is a messy job as some of the marc falls off every time you touch it. The result from this labour of love is a wonderfully aromatic cheese with a complex, savoury fruit flavour and a wine aroma.

RAW MILK C2 130g

C2 is the sort of cheese found throughout the mountains of France and northern Italy. A classic cooked curd cheese made in a traditional large form. C2 matures for 4 - 8months, during which time it develops a sweet aroma and a mildly nutty flavour. The rind is wiped every week to encourage the surface bacteria that provide this cheese with much of its robust integrity. 

O.D.O 190g

It stands for One Day Old and that is what it is. A simple curd cheese that is simply drained overnight, lightly salted and then when it is only a day old is marinated in olive oil flavoured with garlic, chilli, black pepper and chives. Perfect on an antipasto plate, stirred through hot pasta or crumbled over grilled vegetables.

SAINT 190g

In the central plateau of France there are a number of cheeses that are all named after the local Saints. Like our Saint, they are all surface ripened, soft oozy cheeses with a light bloom on the rind – not a thick carpet of single strain white mould found on more commercial cheeses. This cheese can be eaten younger, when the inside is still firm and the flavour more delicate, or wait until the curd breaks down completely and the flavour gets more pungent.

OUR BREAD & BUTTER PICKLE 270g

This is one of our all time favourite pickles. I love it with everything, especially hard cheese and in toasties for the kids! Great with cold cuts too.

OUR BEETROOT & ONION RELISH 270g

Our pickling recipe is simple and delicious - locally grown beetroot and onions, with those big earthy flavours making a great accompaniment to a cheese and charcuterie platter.