Quickes Cheeses
A truly magnificent dairy herd, traditional recipes, skilled cheese makers and lush green Devon hills. This is the secret behind Quickes. Their most famous product is Traditional Mature Cheddar, a far cry from the block cheddars that flood the market today. By slowly maturing a muslin-wrapped truckle for a year, it is allowed to breathe and produces a beautiful rinded cheese with a unique and complex flavour.
The Quicke family have been farming in Newton St Cyres for over 450 years. Twenty five years ago Sir John Quicke and his wife Prue built the dairy where their daughter Mary continues to produce outstanding cheeses today. The dairy at Home Farm is set in 1500 acres of stunning Devon countryside where 400 dairy cows provide the rich creamy milk needed to make the cheese. Care for this beautiful environment and the welfare of all the animals lies at the heart of the Quickes philosophy.
Traditional cheese making is an art and Quickes skilled staff have over 100 years experience between them. They also work to original recipes dating back several generations. The process is incredibly labour-intensive and reliant on all the human senses to discern the subtle changes that separate a good cheese from a world class one. Once the cheese is made it is wrapped in muslin cloth and matured on special racks to allow the cheese to breathe. As a result, Quickes Traditional is unlike most cheddars in that it has a rind while the depth and complexity of the flavour that develops as a result is simply unrivalled.
