{"id":45389,"date":"2023-01-27T09:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=45389"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:05:06","slug":"out-of-adversity-king-stone-dairy-debuts-a-supreme-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/out-of-adversity-king-stone-dairy-debuts-a-supreme-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of Adversity, King Stone Dairy Debuts a Supreme Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Arriving at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingstonedairy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">King Stone Dairy<\/a>, set within the gentle roll of the Cotswolds hills, you\u2019re greeted by the muted barking of a dog. The noise comes from within the dairy\u2014a modern addition to the collection of weathered wooden barns that make up Manor Farm. Glinting trophies from cheese competitions crowd the dairy\u2019s window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"45401\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/David-Washing-Ashcombe-scaled.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Jowett washing Ashcombe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"549\" data-id=\"45400\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead-1024x549.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead-1024x549.png 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead-768x412.png 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead-1536x823.png 1536w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/KSD-Overhead.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">King Stone Dairy from above<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Within its clean surrounds, David Jowett\u2014the dairy\u2019s 31-year-old owner and chief cheesemaker\u2014introduces his three-year-old border terrier, Bertie. \u201cWe bought him during the pandemic,\u201d Jowett says as he settles the dog in its open-top cage, adding apologetically, \u201cno puppy schools were open.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was one of the more minor issues that Jowett would have to navigate during the great global disruption. A year or so before many of us had even learned of the existence of Wuhan, King Stone Dairy was on a roll. Its flagship Rollright cheese had just secured a silver medal at the World Cheese Awards\u2014the latest ribbon in a five-star general\u2019s chest of accolades for the popular vacherin-style wheel.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45399\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Copy-of-Rollright-scaled.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rollright<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>These delicious spruce-bound rounds had migrated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.murrayscheese.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Murray\u2019s Cheese<\/a> in New York City, and by May 2019 the time was ripe for expansion. The move to Manor Farm had already been agreed upon, and in a few months Jowett would leave his premises close to the neolithic standing stones which had given the dairy its name and relocate 20 miles south. There, he intended to double production to around 50 tons per year. \u201cThe plan was to find the best milk possible for our cheeses,\u201d Jowett recalls, \u201con a farm that could accommodate the growth of our business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the start of 2020, King Stone Dairy\u2019s new creamery was up and running. In those first three months, Jowett and his team threw themselves into the production of soft cheese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then all the restaurants closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rising-from-the-ashcombe\"><strong>Rising from the Ashcombe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Recalling that period, the slightest cloud passes across Jowett\u2019s fresh-faced countenance. \u201cThis is the support dog,\u201d he laughs, pointing at Bertie in his cage. \u201cAt the time, we\u2019d just spent half a million on the building and, suddenly, 80 percent of our customers had disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a vast quantity of soft cheese, and a window of only eight weeks until it hit maturity, the clock was ticking. As the reality of the situation dawned not only on Jowett but the industry in general, key players intervened. In the case of Britain\u2019s artisan cheesemakers, celebrity chef Jamie Oliver led the campaign that helped clear King Stone Dairy\u2019s backlog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prompted by a social media push to support them, Oliver, along with several other high profile figures in the UK food world, promoted the \u201cSave British Cheese\u201d selection boxes created by London-based cheesemonger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy<\/a>. Bolstered by Oliver\u2019s huge social media following, the Save British Cheese boxes helped clear 6,000 Little Rollrights over a 10-day cheese-selling bonanza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while King Stone Dairy managed to ride out that period of financial turbulence with a short-term loan from the government, the episode had demonstrated to Jowett the risky nature of his business model. \u201cIt had shown us the precarity of making, pretty much, one cheese, and that cheese being soft ripening,\u201d he says. \u201cIf for whatever reason the demand has a shock to it, we\u2019re pretty screwed pretty quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creamery was also feeling the squeeze from its milk supplier. With a forecast amount of milk to be purchased from the farm, and penalties attached for defaulting on the agreement, Jowett and his team had to act fast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was time to develop a new cheese. But what? With cash flow limited, making a cheddar and aging it over the course of a year was out of the question. Jowett settled on a cheese with a three-to-four-month profile, something that, with a dash of ingenuity, could be produced in King Stone\u2019s existing soft cheese vats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raclette was an option. But, as an \u201cingredient cheese,\u201d sold at a relatively low price, it wasn\u2019t a sound commercial choice for a small dairy operating on top quality organic milk. Eventually, over a contemplative Easter lunch, Jowett decided on a Morbier-style cheese. The original hails from Comt\u00e9 country in France\u2019s Jura mountains. It\u2019s a sizable 11-pound, washed rind wheel that dwarfs King Stone Dairy\u2019s other cheeses. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-supreme-comeback\"><strong>Supreme comeback<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>King Stone\u2019s first Ashcombes appeared midway through 2020. Even though Jowett describes his flagship, Rollright, as a \u201cfinickity cheese to get right,\u201d Ashcombe is the cheese in his stable that he considers the most technically complex. The process involves washing the cheese in a brine solution that produces a savory, meaty terracotta-hued rind.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45397\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ashcombe-2-scaled.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ashcombe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Despite its complexity, the flavor of the cheese is mellow. The line of wood ash running through the middle is not razor straight, but uneven like a Geiger read-out detecting tremors. The pliable paste is rich and smooth, with notes of hazelnuts and melted butter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tasting Ashcombe, it\u2019s humbling to think that while the rest of the UK\u2019s population in lockdown was struggling to maintain a sourdough culture, wilting houseplant, or even a patchy beard, Jowett was developing an award-winning cheese. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that, with the gears of trade seized up, he and his team had to make do with inadequate equipment: vats that were designed for soft cheese, and no cheese press. But the greatest challenge, Jowett explains, was in how to \u201cmanipulate the blend of thermophilic, mesophilic, and secondary cultures to get what we want.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Jowett, a graduate of the UK\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolofartisanfood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School of Artisan Food<\/a> and a man who clearly relishes cheesemaking\u2019s technical tinkering, it perhaps was little surprise when, debuting Ashcombe at the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/artisancheeseawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artisan Cheese Awards<\/a> in mid-2021, it was crowned Supreme Champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While that was a deserved reward for Jowett\u2019s hard work, it was perhaps more poetic in October 2022, at the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishcheeseawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British Cheese Awards<\/a> to be held since the pandemic, when this wheel-born-of-adversity bagged its second Supreme Champion accolade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCheesemakers faced unimaginable challenges during the lockdowns, forcing them to innovate in all sorts of ways to survive,\u201d said the chairman of the awards, Julius Longman. \u201cAshcombe embodies this beautifully as it was produced in direct response to the need to store a sudden glut of milk in a larger, longer-aging cheese. David and his team created something extraordinary in the process\u2014a very worthy winner of the British Cheese Awards 2022 trophy.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, two-and-half years into making Ashcombe, King Stone is finally investing in equipment fit for the purpose. Second-hand vats are making their way across the Atlantic from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasperhillfarm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jasper Hill Farm<\/a> in Vermont, while French-made equipment tailored for the creamery\u2019s needs are traversing the English Channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the new cheese, what has also emerged is a stronger, more resilient cheesemaker. Jowett is even tailoring his milk supply, bolstering the British Friesians and Dairy Shorthorns that were already grazing the unique herbal lays of Manor Farm\u2019s bucolic acres with more cheese-friendly breeds such as Brown Swiss, Montbeliards, and Jersey. \u201cIt\u2019s all entirely the result of the pandemic,\u201d Jowett says. \u201cWere the business not put through what it was, then Ashcombe wouldn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forced to pivot during pandemic lockdown, cheesemaker David Jowett created Ashcombe, a British Cheese Awards Supreme Champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":45390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27800],"tags":[],"coauthors":[897],"class_list":["post-45389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - 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