Coastal Cheddar is a hand-made, cloth-wrapped cheddar from Ford Farm on Dorset's Jurassic Coast, matured for up to 15 months in the salty sea air, which the makers credit for its distinctive crunch of calcium lactate crystals and intense, tangy flavour.

Made by David and Jo Clarke at Sparkenhoe Farm, this is England's only hand-made raw-milk Red Leicester, revived in 2005 and cloth-bound, ripened six months on beechwood shelves with its colour from natural annatto.