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.

Baron Bigod is a Brie-style cheese hand-made by Jonny Crickmore at Fen Farm Dairy from the milk of his own Montbéliarde herd, using traditional pelle-a-brie ladling; the only large-format Brie-style cheese currently made in the UK.

A triple-cream cheese created in 1975 by Jean Lincet at Fromagerie Lincet in Burgundy, made by enriching full-fat cow's milk with crème fraîche beneath a white bloomy rind.

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.