Round off your Jubilee bank holiday menu with a regal touch! Explore our new range of majestic British cheese and cracker selections. Order now and select your chosen delivery date at checkout.
Join us in celebrating Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee with this special selection of British cheeses. Bring the colours of the Union Jack to your cheeseboard with our Jubilee trio of red, white and blue! This selection includes eye-catching Sparkenhoe Red Leicester, brie-style goat’s cheese Wensum White and indulgent creamy Cote Hill Blue. Enjoy these three delicious artisan cheeses with Fig & Spelt Sourdough Crackers from Peter’s Yard, chosen for their earthy sweetness that particularly complements blue cheese.
Please note this selection is available for delivery from Thursday, 19th May. Read more
£29.00
With celebration of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee ahead, our Noble Cheese Selection offers a suitably regal touch to round off your bank holiday menu. This majestic selection includes a King, a Baron and a Duke to share with family and friends at your Jubilee gathering! With connections to Richard III’s childhood home at Middleham Castle, Richard III cheese is a traditional clothbound Wensleydale. Equally distinguished in inspiration we have included brie-style Baron Bigod, an East Anglian favourite, and The Duke, a creamy blue from Cambridge. This mouth-watering selection comes with a box of Peter’s Yard Seeded Wholegrain Crackers.
Please note this selection is available for delivery from Thursday, 19th May. Read more
£31.00
Our British Classic Cheese Selection contains five exquisite cheeses that showcase the diversity and quality of artisan cheeses now being produced in the UK. To accompany these award-winning cheeses, we have included a box of Miller's Damsels Buttermilk Wafers, which are handmade with English buttermilk and butter.
Vintage Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard cheese similar to Cheddar but reminiscent of Alpine cheeses, while Colston Bassett Stilton is a fruity and mellow blue cheese with buttery and earthy flavours. Dorstone is a smooth and moussy goat’s cheese coated with edible ash, which is sublime on the cheeseboard alongside Cornish Yarg, a beautiful, nettle-wrapped cheese. The final cheese in our selection is Baron Bigod, the highly acclaimed Brie-style cheese that we are so proud of in Suffolk!
To create a truly celebratory cheese board or gift, you can add a bottle of Simpsons Wine Estate Chalklands Classic Cuvée (courier delivery & Aldeburgh collection only). From the chalk downs of north Kent, this superb example of English sparkling wine makes an indulgent texture pairing for rich and creamy cheeses.
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£47.50
Serve the finest British cheeses with this perfectly balanced selection. Including a rich and creamy Shropshire Blue, from the makers of Cropwell Bishop Stilton, a delicious new award-winning Cheddar from Trethowan's Dairy - Pitchfork with its long-lasting finish pairs beautifully with a spoonful of Slate chutney. Pave Cobble, an ash-coated sheep’s cheese, completes our trio with a light and delicate dimension. Serve all three with delightfully crunchy Peter’s Yard Sourdough Crispbreads. Read more
£47.50
For us, unwrapping a waxed paper package to savour a uniquely perfect artisanal cheese is one of life’s finest pleasures. Slate was created to share this joy. Receive taste-bud satisfying parcels direct to your door or visit our cheese-packed shops on the Suffolk coast.
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Here at Slate, the arrival of a new batch of cheese in its seasonal prime always causes a flurry of excitement, as does our first taste of new up-and-coming cheeses. We love to celebrate awards or recognition for our favourite producers too. Right now, we can’t get enough of…
Suffolk Blue is a luxuriously creamy lightly blue-veined cheese. It is handmade at Whitegate Farm in Creeting St Mary, Suffolk, alongside East Anglian favourite Suffolk Gold. Here, husband and wife team Katharine and Jason Salisbury, the founders of Suffolk Farmhouse Cheeses, have installed a robotic milking system for their herd of Guernsey and Jersey cows. The rich pasteurised milk from these cows gives their cheeses a delightful buttery flavour. Katharine adds Penicillium Roqueforti spores to her Suffolk Blue curds then pierces the cheeses after a week to encourage veining. Summer-made cheeses are often naturally bluer than winter-made ones. Nonetheless, soft and sumptuous Suffolk Blue delivers subtle flavours throughout the year. Read more
£7.65
St Jude is a sumptuous soft cheese with a dense creamy texture, delicate rind and complex milky flavours of butter and fresh grass. It is produced by Julie Cheyney at White Wood Dairy at Fen Farm in Bungay, Suffolk. Like Fen Farm Dairy’s Baron Bigod, St Jude is made from the raw protein-rich milk of the farm’s Montbéliarde cattle, traditionally used for Alpine cheeses such as Comte and Vacherin. Maturation takes place at Neal’s Yard Dairy, where the cheeses are carefully packed into wooden boxes for sale. Read more
£7.95
Norfolk Tawny is a semi-hard cheese with a texture similar to Caerphilly but a taste all of its own. Maker Arthur Betts of Ferndale Cheeses washes this cheese in Stoatwobbler beer from nearby Beeston Brewery. This imparts a subtle ale flavour. It also helps to ripen the cheese and creates a distinctive texture to the rind. Arthur’s award-winning cheese is based on Taleggio from Italy and is made from local unpasteurised milk. Read more
£8.95
From the makers of Lincolnshire Poacher, Lincolnshire Red is an eye-catching semi-firm cheese. It is handmade from the unpasteurised milk of the farm's own Holstein-Friesians to a Red Leicester recipe. Its vibrant orange colour arises from the addition of annatto, a natural vegetable dye. Lincolnshire Red is matured for around six months—twice as long as many other Red Leicester style cheeses. Its texture is supple while its flavour is delicate and buttery with a clean, grassy finish. Read more
£7.45
Slate’s shops can be found in the beautiful Suffolk coastal towns of Aldeburgh and Southwold. We love to meet fellow cheese fans and offer tastings from our walls of cheese. We can help you create the ultimate cheeseboard with perfectly paired crackers, chutneys and preserves. Make sure you try our delicious locally baked bread, charcuterie, pasta, freshly prepared salads, soups and picnic provisions!