Seville & Spanish Goats’ Milk Cheese
Ali and I have just had a fabulous few days in Seville. For those who haven’t been I would definitely recommend it as it is a beautiful city to explore. We had 4 days there but you could easily see the main sights and get a great feel of the place over a weekend. The […]
PRESS RELEASE – Double National Finalists
Cheese Etc, The Pangbourne Cheese Shop is a finalist in two national awards recognising the best in the country for excellence in the specialist retail market. Finalists have just been announced in the Farm Shop and Deli Awards and The Pangbourne Cheese Shop is just one of 4 shops selected in the Cheesemonger category. The Awards […]
Haywain from Nettlebed
Read on for all of our news including the newest cheese on the block – Haywain from Nettlebed Creamery. Oh crikey, where does the time go?! I can’t believe that we’re in the middle of February and gosh it’s been a long time since I last updated my blog. Many apologies for my lack of […]
World Cheese Awards – Bergen 2018
The beginning of November is a very important time in the cheese world as it marks the judging of the World Cheese Awards. This year the Awards were held in Bergen, Norway, as part of a new food festival, Matnasjonen Norge, and Ali and I were both delighted to be asked to be judges. I […]
Jen reveals why cheese & how she and Ali got into the cheese world!
I’ve been asked a couple of times recently why cheese and how Ali and I got into cheese and what I do outside of the shop. To cut a long story short, I don’t eat cake but I love cheese and so when we got married a cheese wedding cake was the obvious solution. We […]
Meet Sparkenhoe Blue
The last few weeks has seen a warm front covering most of the UK. Whilst we all love the warm weather it has proven to be a bit tricky at times here in the shop… One of our display fridges decided that it was having to work far too hard (even with the air con […]
Norway, Home of Jarlsberg Cheese
We’ve just come back from a wonderful trip to Norway. We started off with a couple of nights in Oslo which was just so lovely. The people were incredibly friendly, the sun was shining and we got to visit a cheese shop! Then we went by train along to Flam – this takes you on […]
Devon & Quicke’s Cheddar
Things here in sunny Pangbourne have been as hectic as ever! It’s the end of a school term and so we’ve been busy creating bespoke gifts for some lucky teachers. These have ranged from a mini waxed cheese on a cheeseboard to a hamper full of goodies. When I worked in schools in the dim […]
Please Vote For Us
We’ve found out in the last couple of weeks that we’ve been shortlisted in a couple of different awards 🙂 The first one is the Shop of the Year Award. Previously forming part of the Great Taste accreditation scheme, Shop of the Year has evolved to apply an even more rigorous and robust judging process […]
What Makes The Perfect Week For A Cheesemonger?
We have about 130 different types of cheese in our counters and I’m really lucky in that I get to travel around and meet a lot of our suppliers, many of whom are the people that are physically making the cheeses that we sell. A couple of weeks ago I had the perfect cheesemonger week as […]
