Our Story
We make a range of award-winning cow, sheep and goat milk cheeses on our family-owned farm in the beautiful West Sussex countryside. Our small team of cheesemakers work in a modern dairy in the farm’s former grain store with every part of the cheese-making process from pasteurisation to packaging completed here at the dairy.
The result is a range of cheeses of which we are very proud, from the sheep-milk halloumi cheese that launched our business in the 1980s to the ever-popular Brighton Blue which you’ll find in delicatessens and farm shops across Sussex and beyond. We produce both organic and non-organic varieties and all are suitable for vegetarians.
Our Products
Tremains Organic: This organic cheddar-style, hard cheese is named after the farm where we make the cheese. It is made as a 4kg wheels and matured for at least five to six months. The cheese has a smooth, creamy texture and a delicious bite, with a medium to strong flavour.
Brighton Blue: A mild, semi-soft cheese with a mellow blue flavour and a slightly salty finish. The blue green veins deepen as the cheese matures, and the taste of the blue strengthens. It has an attractive natural edible rind and has won numerous awards including a Super Gold at the World Cheese Awards 2019/2020.
Sussex Marble: A delicious cheese, made from Saint Giles with the addition of garlic and parsley. A very buttery texture compliments the garlic and herbs. Try it melted onto a jacket potato, or a steak, just like a garlic butter.
Chilli Marble: If you like it hot, Chilli Marble could be the cheese for you. Based on Saint Giles, it has the addition of red bird-eye chilli. It has an attractive marbling running through it and is rather hot, but with a delicious buttery texture.
Saint Giles: Saint Giles is a continental-style, semi-soft creamy cheese, similar to the Saint Paulin/Port Salut style of cheese. It has a rich, buttery texture and a creamy mild flavour. There is also an organic variety which has a stunning edible orange rind, made using organic carrot.
Ashdown Foresters Smoked: Our Oak Smoked Ashdown Forester’s is a young, firm un-pressed cheese with a creamy, slightly squidgy texture, which has been naturally smoked over oak shavings. It has an attractive shape and basket weave texture on the natural rind. Matured for around three months.
Seven Sisters: Seven Sisters. Named after the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs in East Sussex, it is a semi-soft matured organic sheep milk cheese, coated in a layer of Hebridean seaweed. As well as looking interesting, Seven Sisters has a light nuttiness to it and the seaweed coat makes it very difficult to resist.
Sister Sarah: Sister Sarah is a semi-soft goats’ milk cheese. It is matured for just 8-12 weeks. The cheese is very white because the goats digest all the carotene in the grass. It is a mild cheese, with a light and delicious flavour and without any of the ‘goatiness’ which is often associated with a goat cheese.
Halloumi: A salt brined “squeaky” cheese, originally from the Mediterranean and traditionally made from sheep milk. Once dry fried or grilled it takes on a completely different texture – we call it “the vegetarians alternative to the rasher”.
Medita (Feta): Typically known as ‘Feta’, this cheese has its origins in the Mediterranean and we make the cheese in the traditional way with 100% organic sheep milk and then mature it in brine for over five months. It is a semi soft crumbly cheese with a distinct, sharp, fresh, salty flavour.
Contact
Behind the scenes tours now available. Visit the High Weald Dairy website to book direct.