Wensleydale Cheese features in Downing Street Festive Showcase
Wensleydale Creamery was invited to showcase its handcrafted cheese as part of a festive Downing Street event featuring a select range of the UK’s finest businesses.
With exports accounting for almost a fifth (18 per cent) of Wensleydale Creamery’s business, the award-winning traditional cheesemaker based in Hawes, sells its cheese in 16 different countries.
Yorkshire Wensleydale and Cranberries, the company’s most popular export cheese, was showcased at the event, alongside its artisan range including Wensleydale Blue, Kit Calvert Old-Style Wensleydale, and its range of flavoured waxed cheese truckles and hampers. Its famous Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese was also featured and served with fruit cake.
Wensleydale Cheese was invited to feature in the Downing Street festive showcase
The event came just a month ahead of the tenth anniversary year of official Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status for Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese, which sets it apart from other Wensleydale cheeses produced around the UK, outside of the designated area of Wensleydale.
Chris Thomson, managing director at Wensleydale Creamery, said: “We’re incredibly proud to have been invited to appear at the Downing Street Festive Showcase. The event was a true celebration of great British exports, and to be featured alongside so many remarkable businesses has been a real high point of the year. It was great to be able to take our small piece of the Yorkshire Dales to Downing Street and highlight just how special our cheese is.”
Wensleydale Cheese was invited to feature in the Downing Street festive showcase
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Richmond constituency includes Hawes, added: “I’m delighted to have welcomed Wensleydale Creamery to Downing Street as part of our festive street market showcasing the best of British businesses.
“Wensleydale is a great Yorkshire cheese, and the company has grown to employ over 200 people…
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