Day One Sixty Three - Cheese Spy Stories Dispatch #6 - Northern England specifically the little village of Leonard Stanley

Don't you just love it when you encounter someone who truly loves what they are doing? You can tell  because they light up when they talk about it! This week's cheese spy stories dispatch features a farm that definitely loves what they do. On top of which, its pretty apparent that they are having fun making their cheese so you should have fun eating it...However that is most certainly not to say that this is not a farm that isn't serious about their cheese, quite the contrary, they have won many an award in England and worldwide. This week's cheese spy stories features Godsells cheese Church farm located in the village of Leonard Stanley in the Glouchestershire region of Northern England.

Definitely unforgettable right?

Well, let's get to our spy's info on their cheeses! This week's dispatch will detail the cheeses made by Godsells, a farm you should know about if you love cheese.

First off, they make both a traditional Single Glouchester and a Double Glouchester.  In case you didn't know the difference between the two, that is apart from the annato coloring added to the double glouchester, it is simple -- both are made with evening and morning milk from the farm's cows, the difference is that the cream is extracted from the evening milk utilized to make the single glouchester making the single a lighter and lower in fat cheese.

Named after their town, Godsells makes Leonard Stanley -- a cheddar that is aged for at least seven months. This is what cheddar should be, this puts those orange cheddar slices that you are so familiar with to shame! This is a grown up cheese, full of flavor and nuances.

Next up on the cheese production menu, is Holy Smoke -- their single glouchester smoked with oak and beech wood. What is delivered is a nicely smoked cheese, neither too dry nor tasting of cigarette smoke, it is perfectly moist with that hint of cigar smoke, oak, and woodiness.

Moving onto their softer cheese offerings, Godsells makes three different choices:

1. Scary Mary - A back country camembert, less tailored and buttoned up than its French counterparts. Stinky, creamy, peppery, pungent, and apparently fantastic, this cheese will stick in your memory just like the name of the farm it is produced at.

2. Three Virgins - White, creamy, innocent and smooth, this chesire style cheese melts in your mouth. Incredibly lactic and milky, when tasting this cheese, your mind is immediately transported to the milk utilized to make it.

3. Nympsfield - Their  youngest, this fresh cheese is buttery, spreadable and completely in opposition to their double glouchester -- showing you the versatility of Godsells.

Godsells is a small town farm making some show stopping cheeses, it sure is necessary to seek out the next time you're across the pond in the land of Stonehenge, Big Ben, bubble and squeak, and of course pubs on every corner.