A campaign to revitalise the fortunes of Cheshire cheese – once the nation’s favourite – is being launched this weekend at the Nantwich Food and Drink Festival (Sept. 28-30 2007).

Three of the region’s only six remaining producers of traditional crumbly Cheshire are joining forces in a bid to restore it to its place of honour on cheese boards around the country.  

“We are determined to give Cheshire cheese a kick start and see it restored to its rightful place among the truly great named cheeses,” said Mr Justin Beckett, of Belton Cheese just over the Cheshire border at Whitchurch.

“We are now one of only six producers of traditional Cheshire cheese and, as a result, there has even been a decline in the market within our own heartland.”

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