British cheese producer Windyridge has relocated to a new site that will give it extended capabilities and space for its rapidly growing business.
The new site in Somerset will allow Windyridge Cheese to maintain the quality and consistency of its cheese, with production methods ensuring a good distribution of ingredients in each wheel of cheese and batch production methods allowing for artisan touches such as rolling the cheese wheels in herbs and paprika by hand.
The new facility will also allow the brand to extend its gifting range, creating selection packs and new varieties to tap into new occasions.
The site is close to the company’s cheddar supplier, Wyke Farms, which crafts the cheese using renewable energy on its farm in Bruton, Somerset, and packages it in a facility located directly opposite Windyridge’s new blending house.
Having evolved from a farmhouse kitchen start-up six years ago, Windyridge Cheese now sells and exports its product worldwide and is best known for its flavoured cheeses – including its best-selling variant Afterburn, which uses jalapeño peppers, red chillies, green and red bell peppers and garlic to create a fiercely hot cheese with a real chilli kick. Other favourites include a dartboard-style variety wheel of cheeses, a ‘chip shop curry cheddar’ and Porthole, a layered cheese made from both ruby red port-infused cheddar and stilton.
Windyridge managing director Melvin Glynn said: “The company has seen massive growth in the last year alone and is currently on track to achieve a £1.5 million turnover for the year. In June, national retailer Home Bargains started stocking our range and our exports have grown significantly with products now selling in countries across Europe, the far east, Canada, the USA and South Africa.
“The Blending House is an important next step in the development of Windyridge Cheese. We believe it to be the first bespoke cheese blending facility of its kind and as such it will help us to continue innovating to bring exciting and distinctive products of an exceptional quality to market.”
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