Gentler, sweeter and more balanced than a typical blue cheese. It boasts a creamy, buttery paste pierced with the delicate blue veining characteristic of a Stilton. This creamy, full-bodied stilton won the gold medal at the 2014 World Cheese Awards. Colston Bassett Stilton, a cheese with big flavor, comes actually from one of the smallest dairies in the UK. It’s buttery and silky in texture and has a balance between the mold and the cheese. This is an earthy cheese with plenty of rich, complex flavors due. Colston uses animal rennet, which creates lingering flavors and differentiates it from other Stilton cheeses. Colston Bassett still hand ladles their curds in order to create the proper texture in their cheese - similar to chilled butter. Each wheel is salted and aged for up to six months, and it’s important to note that the wheels are pierced later in maturation process than most blue cheeses. Piercing is what allows the air to circulate in the wheel and creates the mold in blue cheese. Doing this at a later stage allows the cheese to develop more flavor internally before introducing the mold.