October News from The Ethical Dairy

This wet and wild weather is the perfect excuse for a newsletter and an update on all things cheese and cow & calf related. First up, the cheese!

At this time of year, we give a lot of thought to planning ahead for Christmas, the busiest time of year for artisan cheesemakers. For us, it means carefully planning production as well as despatch, because we need to time the making of Bluebell batches so that the cheeses are at their very best over the festive season.

This means we make Bluebell available for pre-order for December deliveries well before we actually make the cheese. The benefit of doing it this way is that you can order ahead and we can predict demand, which is important for a cheese that can be quite tricky to get just right.

That’s a long way of saying that pre-ordering for Christmas delivery is now open, and that if you are able to place your Christmas Bluebell orders before mid-November, that would be very much appreciated. All the cheeses we will have available in December are on the website now and can be pre-ordered.

Our final deliveries of the year will take place during the week beginning 14th December. That means our final order deadline is likely to be the evening of Saturday 12th December. However, that may change if delivery slots fill up. Anything ordered from Sunday 13th December onwards will be despatched in the new year.

And if you want to order for delivery soon, the order deadline for delivery this coming week is 8am on Monday.

Thank you for your kind words about our newest cheese, Dhoon. We only have a small amount of this remaining in the store, and it seems to be tasting even better as it matures. We have already made another batch, but it won’t be ready until March, so if you’d like Dhoon for Christmas, we’d suggest placing an order soon.

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