Fellow monger, Erin, and I drove up to the Cellars at Jasper Hill before the holidays. The object of our journey: to pick up 40 wheels of Cabot Clothbound Cheddar, 20 wheels of Landaff cheese and a number of other Jasper Hill cheeses: Constant Bliss, Weybridge, Hartwell, Oma, Winnimere and Caspian. En route, we stopped to visit with the makers of Landaff cheese, Doug and Deb Erb in Landaff, New Hampshire. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Gorwydd Caerphilly’
A Visit with the Erbs: Landaff Cheese
Posted in Cheese, Local, Producer Profile, Travelogues, United States, tagged Caerphilly, Cheese, Gorwydd Caerphilly, Landaff on February 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Raw, Welsh and Earthy: Gorwydd Caerphilly
Posted in Cheese, Pairings, Producer Profile, Wales, tagged ale, Beer, brown ale, Caerphilly, Cheese, cheese pairings, food, Gorwydd, Gorwydd Caerphilly, IPA, Neal's Yard Dairy, pairings, Trethowan, Wales, wheat beer on October 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In 75 A.D. the Romans picked a nice spot in what is today southern Wales to build a fort or caer. A few hundred years later Saint Cenydd entrusted the monastery he started there to his son Ffilli, and thus was born the beginnings of the town of Caerphilly. (more…)




