Double Gloucester
Cheese
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Double Gloucester is a firm, mellow English cow's-milk cheese — deep orange-gold, dense and smooth-breaking, with a buttery, faintly nutty, gently savoury flavour far rounder and less sharp than cheddar. Made in Gloucestershire for centuries, it is most famous beyond the cheeseboard as the wheel chased down Cooper's Hill in the annual cheese-rolling race.
Picking a good onedrag
Firm, buttery, clean cut faceDried, cracked, rancid
Wrapped wedgeEveryday bestRaw or pasteurised: check the label. NHS: hard cheese is safe in pregnancy. US CDC: pregnant, 65+ and immunocompromised people avoid raw-milk cheese unless steaming hot.
Cut faceEven orange, the face a shade duller
Smell at the cutMellow, a little quieter at the face