“Welcome to the home of award winning cheese”
Colston Bassett Dairy is the proud home of award-winning traditional Blue Stilton and Shropshire Blue cheeses, hand-ladled & hand made by us since 1913.
Our award-winning dairy, developed from an idea by Dr. William Windley, has been making world-class, outstanding cheeses using traditional methods for over 100 years. The traditional farming co-operative was first established in 1913. We are located in the beautiful Vale of Belvoir with the four local farms that provide us with 10,000 litres of milk a day.
All our cheeses are created by a highly skilled and dedicated team of cheesemakers still using original recipes handed down through generations.
“With only four cheesemakers in the last one hundred years, Colston Bassett has maintained a tradition and quality of cheesemaking that is unparalleled in the Stilton world. It is the only Stilton that Neal’s Yard Dairy has carried for the last 33 years, and is a favourite amongst our customers around the world, particularly in the USA and France”
It’s all in the taste
Colston Bassett Dairy is the pride of traditional cheesemaking.. the world over.
“Want to buy our cheeses?”
Buying from the UK or abroad?
No problem, our delicious cheeses can be delivered directly to your door ..
Colston Bassett Stilton
Our hand ladled, award winning Stilton has a creamy texture with a sweet and salty richness and a lingering, mellow complexity. All this combined with natural rind that has no bitterness and velvety blue veining makes it the ultimate in blue cheeses.
Colston Bassett Shropshire Blue
Our Shropshire Blue also has a creamy texture but with a milder, sweeter, more delicate flavour and a mellow, peppery blue tang.
“Discover the magic of cooking with Stilton”
Sharp and tangy, and wonderfully bold in flavour - discover the delights of Colston Basset Stilton & Shropshire Blue.
Whether crumbled into salads, melted onto steaks & burgers, sprinkled onto pizzas or whisked into tarts and quiches our cheeses will give your dishes that extra level of indulgence.. try some great recipes.
Our 3 farms blend time-honoured practices with sustainable innovation to deliver pure, nutritious milk you can trust straight from our fields to the dairy all located within just 1.5 miles of the dairy in the Vale of Belvoir.
Over the years improvements have been made to the farms and dairy to comply with today’s rigorous demands of hygenic food production.
During this time though, the method of manufacture has been kept as close as possible to the traditional ways as possible retaining such labour intensive processes as hand-ladling the curds.