Biodynamic farm on the edge of Ashdown Forest. Its dairy makes a cheddar, a brined cheese called Sizzler and a gouda-style Dutchman, unpasteurised apart from Sizzler. Shop open Monday to Saturday.
Cheeses: Cheddar, Sizzler, Dutchman
Website: plawhatchfarm.co.uk
Slipcote is creamy and lemony, and a dry, high-acid sparkling wine made wholly or mostly from Chardonnay lifts the soft curd with its bubbles instead of weighing it down.
Slipcote is fresh, creamy and lemony, so it suits a light, dry, unoaked white with high acidity. Bacchus is crisp enough to echo the cheese's tang without burying its soft, milky centre.
A dry Pinot Gris has enough weight and roundness to meet the soft curd, while its fruit leaves the lemony tang of the cheese clear.
Address: Plaw Hatch Farm, Plawhatch Lane, Sharpthorne, near East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 4JL
Organic dairy in a converted grain store on Tremains Farm, making cow, sheep and goat cheeses. A small shop opens on weekdays; tours are run separately by Cheese Tours.
Cheeses: Sussex Slipcote, Brighton Blue, Seven Sisters, Duddleswell, Ashdown Forester's Smoked, Sussex Velvet
Visiting: on-site shop, Monday to Friday, guided dairy tour and tasting, booked through Cheese Tours
The Delves family's dairy at Burnt House Farm, where they have milked cows since 1962, making handmade cheeses that include the ewe's milk Lord of the Hundreds. A cheese vending machine runs 24 hours.
Cheeses: Lord of the Hundreds, Olde Sussex, Scrumpy Sussex, Burwash Rose, Goodweald Smoked, Burjack Cheddar
Visiting: 24-hour cheese vending machine at the dairy
Cheese company at Hockham Farm, making Pevensey Blue since 2020 from the organic milk of cows grazing the Pevensey Levels. The farm gate opens once a month, 10am to 1pm.
Cheeses: Pevensey Blue, Tilley Lane
Visiting: farm gate sales outside the cheese rooms, once a month, 10am to 1pm, click and collect Monday to Friday
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