The Wensleydale is an English hard cheese from cow's milk in form of a cylinder with natural crust. This cheese in Hawes, a locality in the Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales is manufactured.

The prescription for this cheese can be retraced up to the Cistercians, those with William the conquerer in the 11. Century to England came.

There are two sorts Wensleydale: White Wensleydale, in flat pressed disks with honey flavour and blue Wensleydale, also Yorkshire mentioned, with blue veins and "doubles cream ", which is a relative of the Blue style clay/tone. Good Wensleydale has a damp structure and resembles a young Caerphilly. The flavour reminds of honey with a fresh acid. It matures in two to four months and has a fat content of 45 %. It can be used as board cheese and tastes well too "apple pie ".

Wensleydale is the favourite cheese of Wallace from the animated films around Wallace & Gromit.

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• Wensleydale and Swaledale - "cheese of the monks "
• Homepage of the dairy

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