Baron Bigod

Created by Jonny Crickmore at Fen Farm Dairy, Baron Bigod is made in small batches using a Brie recipe passed on by a French cheesemaker. It is the only large format Brie-style cheese currently being produced in the UK. This traditional farmhouse Brie-style cheese is handmade at Fen Farm from the milk of their grass-fed Montbéliarde cows. The curds are hand ladled into large moulds using traditional pelle-à-brie ladles, and the young cheeses are salted, wrapped in paper and aged for up to eight weeks in cave-like conditions, first at Fen Farm, then at Neal's Yard Dairy. Warm milky flavors with notes of mushrooms, earth, and farmyard make Baron Bigod about as close as we can get to true Brie de Meaux.