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Head cheesemaker Dan Mason shares secrets of success
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00:00I'm Dan and I'm the cheese maker and manager at Weightbridge Manor Creamery where we are
00:05and a couple of weeks ago we won some big awards at the Artisan Cheese Awards in Melton Mowbray
00:11we won best small producer for our cow's milk cheese Derwent we won best new cheese for cow's
00:20milk cheese Derwent and we won a highly commended in the cow's milk category as well we make a
00:26sheep's cheese on the farm as well with our own flock and it's nice to win some awards for the
00:32cow's milk cheese How long have you been going? The whole site's been developed for about five
00:41years now and I've been involved for about four years but we finally got started selling the cheese
00:4718 months ago so it's all very new How many cheeses do you know? At the moment we've got four different
00:55styles we've got two sheep's cheese and two cow's milk cheese we've got Weightbridge each pressed
01:01sheep's milk cheese and Weightbridge Blue it's a blue cheese version of that and we buy in cow's milk
01:07and we make Derwent Derwent White which is what these awards are for and we make a cheese called
01:13Blue Moon as well which is a blue cheese made with cow's milk Where can you buy the cheese from?
01:19Locally we are in Chatsworth Farm Shop we're at Cromford Mill Cheese Shop we're in a little deli
01:28called Reunion in Belpa and more nationally we're in London and Neil's Yard Dairy it's great to win
01:36awards for the cow's milk bought in but we the family farm produce the sheep's milk so it's all the
01:42the Bailey family and me working really hard
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