Welcome
Welcome to Bertelin Farmhouse Cheese.John, Lucy and son Tom Heath are makers of hand made traditional cloth bound cheeses in the heart of Staffordshire at Ellenhall Grange Farm near Eccleshall.
Our herd of Bertelin pedigree Friesian cows are named after St Bertelin who founded Stafford town around 700AD.
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Bertelin Staffordshire PDO is a finalist - Our Staffordshire PDO cheese was in the top 4 out of 28 entries in the Dairy category, for the HEFF 2010 diamond Awards. This was the first time we entered this competition and very pleased with the result. The judges were fine food retailers and chefs, the produce entered for the awards had to be from the Heart of England and produced with high quality ingredients.
HEFF | Our Award Certificate
HEFF | Our Award Certificate
We have 5 stars on Rate My Place from our Environmental Health Officer visit in April 2010.
This verifies that we are producing our quality cheeses in a safe and hygienic environment.
Rate My Place
This verifies that we are producing our quality cheeses in a safe and hygienic environment.
Rate My Place
Food Lovers Britain Approved. We are delighted to be Food Lovers Approved.
This is an honour as we meet their detailed standards and our cheese passed their tastings.
No business can buy their way to be Food Lovers Approved or onto their web site.
Please visit their web site to see fellow approved producers.
Food Lovers Britain
This is an honour as we meet their detailed standards and our cheese passed their tastings.
No business can buy their way to be Food Lovers Approved or onto their web site.
Please visit their web site to see fellow approved producers.
Food Lovers Britain
Helping Weston Park's The Granary celebrate their first Birthday
We celebrated their first birthday by John doing a tasting and answering any cheesy questions at the park's open weekend, Saturday 3rd April 2010.
It was a great success with the sun shining and lots of visitors.
Weston Park | Granary Birthday Celebrations
We celebrated their first birthday by John doing a tasting and answering any cheesy questions at the park's open weekend, Saturday 3rd April 2010.
It was a great success with the sun shining and lots of visitors.
Weston Park | Granary Birthday Celebrations
Lucy and Debbie travelled to Northern Germany in March with Japp De Jongia on a fact finding tour around 5 farmhouse cheese makers, starting each day with cheese as part of the continental breakfast.
The cheese makers only sell their cheese to Farm Shops. The Germans eat more than twice as much cheese per person as we do! (Source: Cheeseboard). This indicates we British still have a long way to go in supporting local retailers and eating more cheese for its goodness, not forgetting taste of course!
Japp de Jongia
The cheese makers only sell their cheese to Farm Shops. The Germans eat more than twice as much cheese per person as we do! (Source: Cheeseboard). This indicates we British still have a long way to go in supporting local retailers and eating more cheese for its goodness, not forgetting taste of course!
Japp de Jongia
Cheese Detective meets with Bertelin Farmhouse Cheese - and writes to the Financial Times.
Peter Papprill , The Cheese Detective, makes it his business to sniff out farmhouse cheeses all over the country.
Peter shot to fame when he appeared on the Gary Rhodes cookery programme.
In a letter to the Financial Times recently, Peter mentions our cheese and his meeting with Debbie.
The letter, reproduced by kind permission of the FT and Peter can be read here.
Peter's Letter | Cheese Detective | Financial Times
Peter Papprill , The Cheese Detective, makes it his business to sniff out farmhouse cheeses all over the country.
Peter shot to fame when he appeared on the Gary Rhodes cookery programme.
In a letter to the Financial Times recently, Peter mentions our cheese and his meeting with Debbie.
The letter, reproduced by kind permission of the FT and Peter can be read here.
Peter's Letter | Cheese Detective | Financial Times
Staffordshire Life's Features Editor, Bryony Vale, came to see us making our Staffordshire PDO cheese. Please read her article in the January Edition by clicking below.
The article describes our award winning cheese production.
January Feature | Staffordshire Life
January Feature | Staffordshire Life
We are now a member of Slow Food UK that helps to ensure the cheeses we produce taste good and are produced in a way that respects the environment, human health and animal welfare. The Slow Food UK movement helps to promote sustainability and to protect traditional foods.
Slow Food UK
Slow Food UK
Award Winning Cheese: We entered the International Cheese Awards at Nantwich for the first time this year and were very pleased to have won a Gold Award, with our Bertelin Staffordshire Cheese (PDO) in the Hard cheese (non blue) Class. This class had 30 entries from cheese makers all over the world that produce less than 2 tonnes per week, making competition fierce.
Farmers Guardian
Farmers Guardian
