City Cheese
City cheese is a small family business and they are the proud producers of a variety of Dutch Gouda style cheese. Christo Swanepoel one of the partners in the business, is also the cheese maker at City Cheese has a passion for good food and makes the cheese by hand.
Christo and Angelique Swanepoel are both South African chefs who have been living in Northern Ireland for five years. Christo was brought up on a dairy farm and he was reared on raw milk and raw milk cheese. This passion for raw milk and their background in food made cheesemaking a natural business venture.
He and Angelique decided to start making cheese with milk from Culmore organic farm, which in Northern Ireland’s only licensed producer of organic raw cow’s milk. Their cows are milked by a robot which Christo and Angelique believe makes for happier cows and in turn that means happy milk- and very happy cheese!
They produce 3 different cheeses from their home in Millisle their new approved creamery. They make them in small batches by hand. They are matured at an ambient temperature on locally sourced larch timber shelves for no shorter than 90 days.
With such great raw ingredients and such tender loving care, you just know this cheese is going to taste goooooooooood. And it does. All three of them. Can’t wait till they come up with their next one!!
