Cotswold Curd.
Raw-milk hard cheese in 12kg truckles, matured on board. Ascott-under-Wychwood, 4 miles from the farm gate, supplying this shop since September 2020.
What they make.
Raw-milk hard cheese in 12kg truckles, matured on board. It is a cheesemaker first and a supplier to this shop second, which is the correct order and worth stating: nothing here depends on us, and none of these businesses would close if we stopped ordering.
They have been supplying the farm shop since September 2020, which makes them one of the longer-standing relationships in a chapter where the average is about four years.
What we sell of theirs.
On the shelf
- Truckle wedge, 250g
- Cut to order at the counter
- Whole baby truckle, 1.2kg
- Christmas and Easter only
- Six-month matured
- The one people come back for
- Twelve-month matured
- Limited, because the board is a fixed size
The relationship
- Supplying since
- September 2020
- Distance
- 4 miles from the shop, straight line
- Payment terms
- 14 days from invoice
- Listing fee
- None, and there never has been
- Exclusivity
- None either wayThey sell to whoever they like, and so do we
- Mark held
- Raw-milk hard cheese · currentBacked by Diddly Squat
Prices are set by the producer, not by us. Where a line has a fixed retail price it is because they asked for one, which two of the nine do.
What went wrong. A pallet of six-month truckles was left on a loading bay in July 2023 in twenty-nine degrees for four hours because our goods-in had nobody rostered between twelve and one. Eleven truckles sweated and had to be graded down to cooking cheese. That was our error, entirely, and we paid the full wholesale price for all of them rather than arguing about who signed for what. Goods-in has been staffed through lunch ever since.
Sixteen miles, and what that actually means here.
This producer is 4 miles from the shop door. Under the planning condition that governs what the farm shop may sell, that is what makes them stockable at all — not the quality, not the story, and not whether they photograph well.
It is worth being blunt about the consequence: if they moved twenty miles away we could not sell their food, however good it was. The rule takes no view on merit.
- Distance
- 4 miles
- Since
- September 2020
- Lines stocked
- 4
At a glance.
On the public register
With the audit date and the next one due.
Paid in fourteen days
From invoice, not from delivery.
4 miles away
Inside the planning radius, comfortably.
One failure published
Above, with the party at fault named.
The other producers.
Chadlington Bakehouse
Sourdough, cottage loaves and a morning bun that sells out by ten.
Windrush Smokery
Cold-smoked trout, dry-cured back bacon and smoked butter.
Sarsden Apiary
Cotswold honey, hive by hive, unblended.
Dean Market Garden
Salad, roots and brassicas on two and a half acres.
Enstone Meat Co
Dry-aged beef, sausage and bacon, cutting for the shop and the pub.
Bruern Mill
Stoneground flour, milled slow enough not to cook the grain.
Supply the shop yourself.
If you are inside the radius and make something we do not already have, the route in is short.
