Crozier Blue 200g

Name: Crozier Blue 200g
SKU: CRO14
Price: 6.70 EUR
Availability: InStock

About This Cheese

Crozier has a rich, full, well rounded flavour. It is saltier and richer tasting and like it’s sibling cheese, has no blue sting or harshness to it.

€6.70

Story

Crozier Blue is made in the same production facility as Cashel Blue. The same cheese moulds are used to shape both cheeses, which accounts for the similarity in appearance between Cashel and Crozier. However, because it is made from sheep’s milk the ripening time for

Crozier is considerably longer than that of Cashel. Whereas Cashel can be past peak ripeness after twenty weeks, Crozier will comfortably age for a further two months. In terms of appearance, Crozier is generally slightly smaller than Cashel, the paste is whiter and slightly more chalky and the blue is greener in colour.

Producer

Cashel Blue didn’t start in its current factory setting but in a quirky, three-storey farmhouse that dates back to 1780 with its cool earth-floored cellar where the cheeses used to mature. Over the years, the cheese operation moved from the apple store to the calf shed, to the haybarn, until the cheese got its own building where it’s made now. Jane and Louis Grubb began officially making Cashel Blue on their farm at Beechmount, near Fethard, in County Tipperary in 1984. Like many trailblazers, Jane and Louis dove headfirst into cheesemaking, buying 90 cows in the early 80’s and began experimenting. Since then, their cheeses have gone on to become the best known of all the Irish farmhouse cheeses. Their daughter Sarah along with her husband Sergio have now taken over the business.