Fizz Feast Taster - Isle of Mull Cheese

As part of the run-up to our fourth annualFizz Feast on Saturday 16 November at Edinburgh Academy, we’re giving you a brief introduction to the fabulous food and fizz exhibitors lined up to tantalise taste buds and please palates.

What artisan food and drink festival would be complete without a fabulous cheese to sniff, savour and take home for a treat? Which is why we are so delighted to welcome Isle of Mull Cheese to Fizz Feast this year.

Made on the only dairy farm on the beautiful Isle of Mull, which is the small, family farm called Sgriob-ruadh (Gaelic for ‘Red Furrow’ and pronounced Ski-brooah), Isle of Mull Cheese is a traditional artisan farmhouse cheese.

Cheesemaking on Scottish Islands has long been practised as a way of conserving the rich, plentiful milk of spring and early summer, when the grass is luxuriant and the cows graze freely. At Sgriob-ruadh, the cows are predominantly Friesian, with a recent addition of Brown Swiss cows, whose milk is particularly suited to making fine cheese.

Fine cheese, requires the very best of milk. Isle of Mull cheese is made from milk taken directly from the milking parlour to the cheese-making vat, which is a freshness that is lost in a large-scale, cheese-making plant that gathers milk by tanker from a number of farms.

Isle of Mull Cheese is kept as natural as possible, with no added colouring, and for that reason, the cheeses made in winter, when the cows are being fed hay, are whiter in appearance than those made when fresh, green grass is more readily available.

All of the cheeses mature for months in the farm’s underground cellar for a wonderful, full, flavoursome taste.

This is cheese-making as it should be and we are very happy to be able to share Isle of Mull’s delights with you at Fizz Feast. You’re welcome!

Fizz Feast is is a true Celebration of Sparkling Wine & Artisan Food on Saturday 16 November 2019 at The Edinburgh Academy, 42 Henderson Row, Edinburgh.

There are two sessions to choose from: 12-3pm and 4-7pm, and plenty of masterclasses.

Tickets start at £20 per personfind out more