30th March 2017

We receive 100s of enquiries for Cheese Wedding Cakes, and who wouldn't want one? An alternative to your regular fruit cake, this savoury beauties can be served as the cheese or dessert course, look the part, and are the perfect munchies after happy champagne swigging.   ... read more

15th September 2016

British Food Fortnight was founded in 2002 in response to the foot and mouth crisis that hit British farming. Luckily, that crisis isn't part of our landscape now, so it's a campaign which allows us to shout about the bounty of British food producers that we have in the UK, and celebrate them! Local food gets a lot of positive publicity, and we are certainly very proud of our local followin... read more

4th August 2016

Northumberland Cheese Company has had a fantastically successful summer of awards this year. We began with the Artisan Cheese Awards in Melton Mowbray (they were at the end of April, but we think that almost counts as summer!), where we were delighted to gain a Bronze award for our Brinkburn in the best goats' cheeese category, and we won a silver award for best newcomer for Northumberlandia; we were especially excited about this, as Northumberlandia is a new face in the cheese world this year. Next, we had the Great Yo... read more

7th July 2016

This is normally a venue for our consumer customers, but do you work in catering or hospitality and would like to work with us? We can provide any of our cheeses as mediums (approximately 2.5kg), halves (approximately 1.2kg) or quarters (appoximately 600g). Kielder, Elsdon and Blagdon Blue are particularly fantastic to cook with, and we also like to see our Brinkburn (goats' cheese), Coquetdale or Nettle cheese on a cheese board! In addition, we can also supply fresh or frozen cow or goats' curds (available to local customers only, and pl... read more

1st December 2015

Brinkburn, our mould-ripened Goats' cheese, is stealing all of the limelight at Northumberland Cheese this year! It has just won Gold at the Guild of Fine Food World Cheese Awards, for hard-pressed goats' cheese. We were overjoyed with this accolade! It joins a few awards in our Brinkburn trophy cabinet, including Gold at the Nantwich International Cheese Awards, Gold at the Great Yorkshire Show (Speciality Goats' cheese), and Gold at Dumfries and Lockerbie. We are very proud of Brinkburn this year! It is unique as a goats' cheese, becaus... read more

24th November 2015

Nicholson’s Butchers in Whitley Bay, headed-up by Kathryn Nicholson, submitted a home-made individual Steak and Blagdon Blue Cheese Pie in the Hot Pies and Bakery Category at Q Guild Smithfield Awards, and was awarded a perfect score in the category. Kathryn explained her inspiration:‘This product uses locally sourced Blagdon Blue Cheese, inspired by the need for warm, comforting foods.’ This merited a diamond award:we're so proud! ... read more