Nanny Williams Blue Goats Cheese

I have ate new cheese!

Nanny Williams is a blue cheese made from goat lactation. It is a heavily marbled, thoroughly veined cheese with a dark rind. It is totally gnarly, with a fairly pungent aroma that carries the promise of its sharp, rich flavour.

Nanny Williams is handmade by Ness and Gwyn Williams, at the Loosehanger farmhouse in Wiltshire.
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The cheese what they make comes out as milk from the teats of Willowbrook Goats.

Image used comes from the WillowbrookPark blog, www.willowbrookpark.blogspot.com - used without permission - go check out their blog if you want to look at more goats.

I enjoyed the experience of eating Nanny Williams cheese. It goes good with types of preserves what are sharp and sweet. I ate some with chicken livers fried in sherry, served in a bit of baguette spread thin with some plum and rhubarb jam.

If that sounds lovely to you, I is want you to be my friend.

If that sounds horribly to you, I sadly suggest we go our separate ways, as I will be eating at different tables from the ones what you will be eating at.

THE TASTE

The taste is strong. If you don't like goats cheese, or blue cheese, then you won't like this at all probably. Its gnarly looking rind and strength of flavour will probably make you cry.

I like both blue and goats cheese, and I confess that I found it bestest to eat the cheese in small, tasty pieces. This isn't one of those "cut out a blinking great wedge and shove it in a folded bread, pretending you own a plough kind of cheeses". IT IS NOT CHEDDAR.

It is good though, as well as being a sensational experience. There's a high pitch note of flavour running through, that is approximately this colour with a touch of salt to it. Underneath that is the rolling spirals and curlicues of blue cheese flavour, and the swells of taste in it are big and well-weathered, like a much used wheel on a cart. At the bottom is a base of cream that sits quiet until the fireworks are over.


I recommend Nanny Williams to adventurous cheese novices, though this is a challenge too far, me suspects, for the babybells. Try a dairy-lea lunchable or a cheesestring instead. It's not a real cheese, but then, you're not a real man. Or woman. Or whatever you be.

In all seriousness, though, twibble blipple saddle nipple.