Review of Golden Hooves 'regenerative' cheese

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00:00Today I'm doing a taste test on two cheddar cheeses have been sent to me by

00:05Golden Hooves. Now these are cropping up now in 14 booth stores across Lancashire,

00:12Cheshire, Cumbria and Yorkshire and what makes them special is that they're made

00:18with regenerative farming and essentially that means that the farmers

00:25are doing more so they're increasing biodiversity and reducing emissions the

00:31animals are kept to a very high standard of welfare and there's things like

00:35countryside stewards stewardship sorry and future food security going into the

00:42manufacturing process that will appeal to a lot of people but what will appear

00:47more is how these cheese cheeses taste so let's have a go okay so these are the

00:53cheeses that I've been sent to try by Golden Hooves we've got mature cheddar

00:57and a vintage cheddar the difference between mature and vintage I'm not sure

01:03on but the mature one here says rounded and rugged and then we have complex and

01:11crumbly and you can see that the vintage cheddar there has won a couple of taste

01:17awards British cheese award gold and great taste star so yeah I'm gonna open

01:25both of them and and let you know what I think okay so first of all I would just

01:30like to say that quite like the packaging anyway the taste of it I have

01:35just just taken a little piece of this mature cheddar rounded and rugged don't

01:41really know what that's meant to mean and what I can tell you is it tastes

01:46exactly like a cheddar I hate to say it but it's quite unremarkable if you're in

01:52the market for a mature cheddar there's quite a few of them around and this does

01:57what it says on the tin it's perfectly lovely and it will do you a great job if

02:03you want a mature cheddar but there's nothing remarkable about it and it's

02:09it's very comparable with other leading brands that are out there but if you

02:14want to be extra responsible and you want this regenerative farming then this

02:19is going to be a good choice for you right I'll move on to the vintage because

02:25I want to know what the difference is between vintage and mature so right here

02:28we go with the vintage portion there let's have a go okay so that one to me

02:40tastes milder than the mature it's not it says it's crumbly and I was worried

02:47about that to me that's not crumbly at all but as I say I am NOT a cheese

02:53expert I am just Jo blogs crumbly to me is kind of like your crumbly Lancashire

03:01or it falls apart I mean I don't know if you can see that but that doesn't have

03:07that crumbly texture it wasn't falling apart you have to you know what I mean

03:15there's nothing falling apart here taste-wise complex okay I'll take your

03:22word for it it's like again it's perfectly pleasant there is nothing

03:25wrong with this cheese at all and I'm sure that the credentials behind the way

03:31it's made are fantastic it's a cheddar and you know it struggles in terms of

03:40being Wowie because it's not mixed with anything you know there's no fruit in

03:44there there's no spices or herbs or anything fancy going on if you want some

03:51good honest cheddar cheese yeah great absolutely fantastic but does it stand

03:58out to me for the taste no