The Cheese Pantry at Connage Highland Dairy

The Clark family farm at Milton of Connage sits on the flat green edge of the Moray Firth, and their organic herd's milk never leaves the place: it goes straight into a dairy where ten cheeses are made by hand, from a crumbly Highland cheddar to Crowdie, brie and a gently smoked Gouda. The Cheese Pantry is the shop side of it, and its great virtue is a viewing window into the make room, where curd is cut and turned in front of you. Buy a wedge still cool from the store, add oatcakes and Highland butter, and take it down to the shore at Ardersier. Simple, and quietly unforgettable.

A family dairy where the cows, the make room and the shop counter are all within a few hundred metres, and visitors can watch the cheese being made. Independent, rural and genuinely instructive.

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