Carrigaline Farmhouse
For two generations the O'Farrell family have been perfecting their skills as artisan cheese producers on their family farm in Carrigaline, Co. Cork. Since 1987 the Carrigaline Cheese brand has grown very deliberately making its way onto cheeseboards and store shelves all over Ireland and internationally. Their cheeses are handmade with milk from Freisian cows, grazed on rich limestone soil, and pasteurised on site.
Carrigaline is a family run business that cares about their customers and wants to deliver a perfectly creamy, high quality, artisan cheese. Carrigaline cheese has no artificial preservatives or additives, and the cheese is made with vegetarian rennet, making it suitable for strict vegetarians. The cheese is semi-soft, with a delicate flavour, becoming piquant with age. It is also available in a range of flavours.
Their mission is to provide a natural cheese, handmade and matured with patience, while caring for the people who make it and Mother Nature who sustains it.
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: Buttery with hints of flint leading to a piquant finish.
Paste: Semi hard, little airholes throughout, creamy.
Rind: Truckles are waxed in a range of colours, cut wedges are vacuum packed.
Age: 6 months
Format: Bulk wheels, truckles of 400g, 200g, 150g. Cut cheese also
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Use in a toasted panini, serve with weissbier or richer lager style beer. Clean white wines work as well.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: Balanced natural smoking results in notes of caramel and bacon coming to mind!
Paste: Semi hard, little airholes throughout, creamy.
Rind: Truckles are waxed in a range of colours, cut wedges are vacuum packed.
Age: 6 months
Format: Bulk wheels, truckles of 400g, 200g, 150g.Cut cheese also
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Amber ale. Toasted, buttered, homemade brownsode bread with coffee! Enhances pretty much any food dish.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: Mild garlic notes on a full buttery backdrop.
Paste: Semi hard, little airholes throughout, creamy.
Rind: Truckles are waxed in a range of colours, cut wedges are vacuum packed.
Age: 6 months
Format: Bulk wheels, truckles of 400g, 200g, 150g.Cut cheese also
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Simple Italian reds, such as Chianti. Versatile in a wide range of baked dishes and pastas.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: Natural bitterness of cranberries is assertive and refreshing against the buttery Carrigaline.
Paste: Semi hard, creamy. Nuggets of cranberry
Rind: Vacuum packed
Age: 9 months
Format: Bulk wheels and cut pieces.
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Pinot Noir, chilli oat biscuit.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: Unami in a cheese! Can be sweet when young with minerality increasing with age.
Paste: Semi hard, creamy. Mottled with seaweed pieces
Rind: Vacuum packed
Age: 6 months
Format: Bulk wheels and cut pieces.
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Stout beer. Pineapple, red onion compote.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: Fun flavours of blueberry grab the Carrigaline creating a succulent mouthful
Paste: Semi hard, creamy. Nuggets of blueberry
Rind: Vacuum packed
Age: 9 months
Format: Bulk wheels and cut pieces.
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Robust red wine, Shiraz, Zinfandel.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
Milk type: Cow
Style: Hard cheese
Flavour: The truffle can behave like wild garlic flavours leaning to mushrooms and even pepper.
Paste: Semi hard, creamy. Nuggets of summer truffle.
Rind: Vacuum packed
Age: 12 months
Format: Bulk wheels and cut pieces.
Rennet: Vegetarian
Pairings: Great burger upgrade, serve with Pale Ale or medium bodied ed wine.
Season available: Available All Seasons
Made with raw milk: Yes
