FREE DELIVERY ON ORDERS OVER £35

Orders placed after 4pm, Friday 15th December are not guaranteed to arrive in time for Christmas. (Our dispatch warehouse will re-open on 27th December).


Christmas FAQs

All of our Waxed Truckles have best before dates post Christmas 2023.

All products included in any Christmas pre-orders are guaranteed to have best-before dates after Christmas 2023, with most well in to 2024.

Our Blue Stilton and Dovedale Blue can only have a maximum of 28 days date from when it is cut. This means it will often have as little as 10 days of dates, but like all our cheese, you can freeze it for eating later.

Most of our cheese will last up to 3 months if kept in the fridge. We have to include compulsory BBE dates, but this is not a true indication of the lifetime and quality of the cheese. Our Blue Cheese has a maximum allowed date of 28 days from it being made, but again this is a guide.

Yes! You can freeze our cheese for up to 12 months, without any loss of texture or taste. We suggest for defrosting, you should take it out 24-48 hours before, and for the best flavour, you should consume it at room temperature.

We know many of you will want to order your Christmas gifts in advance of the big day, but please remember your gift contains cheese! The cheese will need to stay in the fridge until you are ready to gift as leaving them out can cause them to warm up and crack the wax, potentially causing leakage but certainly ruining the gift.

For our gifting hampers, the team pack these are carefully as possible, but you should be able to take the individual truckles out to pop in the fridge without ruining the presentation of the hamper.

If you are visiting friends and family with your Cheshire Cheese Company gifts this Christmas, your cheese might be out of the fridge longer than usual. For short periods of time, your cheese should be perfectly fine.

If your cheese does become a little warm and soft, it can cause the cheese to expand and sometimes cause a hairline crack in the wax, occasionally causing some leakage to occur. If this does happen, simply wipe the cheese down and chill the cheese in a fridge for a few hours to become firm again.

Yes! If you would prefer to speak to one of our lovely Customer Service Team, they would be more than happy to place your order over the phone. You can call us on 01270 904911, Option 1 from 9am to 4pm, Monday to Friday. To make the process quicker for our Customer Service Team, it would be helpful if you know what you would like to order and have all the details for delivery ready! Please note that Orders placed after 4pm, Friday 15th December are not guaranteed to arrive in time for Christmas. (Our dispatch warehouse will re-open on 27th December).

Christmas is a very busy period for us, so if we do not answer your call straight away, please leave us a message with your name, number, and the best time to call you back! We aim to return any missed calls as soon as we can, but if you have not heard back from us, please email us with the same details for your call back.

Orders placed after 4pm, Friday 15th December are not guaranteed to arrive in time for Christmas. (Our dispatch warehouse will re-open on 27th December).

Yes, if you would like to send your order directly to the recipient, you can. You can add a different delivery address to your billing address, but please make sure this information is entered correctly, as we might not be able to amend this information. We do not include any prices on the picking sheet we include in the parcel.

You can also add your very own personalised gift message to your order! Underneath the shopping cart is Gift Options – click this expand and add a greeting. This greeting will be printed in bold on the picking sheet and added to your gift.

Storing our Cheese

All waxed cheese typically has between 1 and 6 months best before dates, depending on the variety and time of year. The Blue Cheese can only have a maximum of 28 days from the day it is made, this means dates can be as short as 10 days or less. Please note these are guides only and the lifetime of the cheese is much greater.

Sometimes the delivery of your order can be delayed and this can cause the cheese to become warm and soft. When it does this it will sometimes expand in the wax and cause a hairline crack. This can cause some leakage to occur that is perfectly harmless, simply wipe the cheese down and chill the cheese in a fridge for a few hours to become firm again. Due to the use of salt in our cheese variety no harmful bacteria can form on the cheese. For extended periods of storage of more than a few days we recommend storage in fridge at 5°C to 8°C. Blue cheese should always be refrigerated at below 5°C or it can be frozen.

Yes and you must always store the cheese long term in a fridge for extended periods of storage of more than a few days we recommend storage in fridge at 5°C to 8°C. Blue cheese should always be refrigerated at below 5°C or it can be frozen. Refrigeration helps maintain the cheeses excellent taste and texture and also helps avoid the cheeses from swelling and the wax splitting.

Most cheese will last up to 3 months if kept in the fridge. We have to include compulsory Best Before End (BBE) dates which are not true indications of the lifetime and quality of the cheese. Blue cheese has a maximum allowed date of 28 days from it being made this is a guide and this can also be frozen.

You can freeze our cheese and it will keep for up to 12 months. Defrost in the fridge for 24-48 hours and for the best flavour consume at room temperature.

The best before dates on our cheese are a guide date only that we are obliged to add to our cheese. The reality is that our cheese will last considerably longer than the dates shown if stored sealed in your fridge or frozen in the freezer for up to 12 months.

About our Cheese

All our Waxed Truckles & Cheshire Cheese Chutneys are Gluten Free, except for Old Hag Ale & Mustard Cheese and Old Hag Ale Chutney. Please check our Ingredients & Allergens Page for current information.

All of our cheese is made with vegetarian rennet including the Vintage Gold and is suitable for vegetarians as our entire range is VegSoc Approved.

Yes and you must always store the cheese long term in a fridge for extended periods of storage of more than a few days we recommend storage in fridge at 5°C to 8°C. Blue cheese should always be refrigerated at below 5°C or it can be frozen. Refrigeration helps maintain the cheeses excellent taste and texture and also helps avoid the cheeses from swelling and the wax splitting.

All of our cheese is made with pasteurised milk and all our cheese except for our blue cheese is suitable for pregnant women.

All of our cheese range is created by ourselves and we produce it in Crewe, Cheshire. Our distribution centre and HQ office is at Laurels Farm, Crewe Rd, Hatherton, Nantwich, Cheshire CW5 7PE.

Buying Online

You will gain points with every purchase you made, we will automatically give you extra points on your birthday and there are special offers for extra points earning available, keep a lookout for our emails offers. For full details and guides click here.

Please check our Delivery Information page for more information

Yes there is a minimum order value of £10 required with carriage of £4.95. Delivery is FREE for all orders over £35*. We have to apply a minimum order to be able to provide a service that does not make a loss. It costs us as much in overhead, packaging and carriage to send one cheese as it does to send out five but we only get 1/5th of the contribution to our running costs. The delivery cost is subsidised by us and we pay the VAT equivalent on your order. We are constantly looking at ways of reducing the carriage costs and passing on the savings.
*Order total must be £35 or over after any discounts or offers have been applied.

We use Braintree® Payment Gateway owned by PayPal® for all financial transactions, we also support Amazon Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay. In the event we need to refund you for any reason you please email [email protected] and we will process a return or refund we have a policy of not sending replacements for single damaged items we will offer you vouchers and Rewards points instead

Important 3D Secure info: Your bank has increased their security requirements for checking out online using your card. You may be required by your bank to verify your payment via your App, email or text message.

Yes we use the Braintree® Payment Gateway owned by PayPal® to process all of our payments. Your card details are only entered into the secure Braintree, Paypal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, or Google Pay website and we do not store any payment details on our own web site. Please note you can use PayPal or Credit/Debit cards with our Integrated Braintree System.

Important 3D Secure info: Your bank has increased their security requirements for checking out online using your card. You may be required by your bank to verify your payment via your App, email or text message.

Important 3D Secure info: Your bank has increased their security requirements for checking out online using your card. You may be required by your bank to verify your payment via your App, email or text message.

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Only one voucher code can be used per order placed, the order must be a minimum of £10.00 in value after discount and excluding the cost of delivery. Voucher Codes cannot be applied to products already discounted and promotional offers. The birthday voucher can be used at a show we attend as can the single or two cheese vouchers we issue but must be printed out with the email it was sent with and shown to the seller. Only official Cheshire Cheese Company organised shows and markets will accept the vouchers.

You must be logged in, add your cheese choice to the cart and then click top right Shopping cart Icon to view cart. At the bottom of the page next to the total you will find a coupon box please add your code the order must be a minimum of £10.00 in value after discount and excluding the cost of delivery. If you have a Gift card see next FAQ

You must register on our website and be logged in to use the balance from your gift card. Add your choice of products to the cart and then click top right Shopping cart Icon to view cart. At the bottom left of the page you will Apply Gift Card Code, add your code here. The balance will be taken from the card if you have credit this will be assigned to your logged in account for use with a future order.

If on the rare occasion you receive a damaged or missing item from your order, we will offer a refund or we will offer you a voucher code which will exceed the value of the missing or damaged items. Due to the high cost of shipping our policy is not to replace the item except in the case of a total loss of parcel.

Occasionally, it may be necessary to replace an item in your order. Our customer service team will make every effort to notify you, but this may not always be feasible during busy periods. Rest assured, if an item needs to be substituted, we will ensure that the replacement is of equal or higher value than the original. If the substituted product is unsuitable, please contact our customer service team within 7 days of receiving your item, and we will be happy to help you with your query. You can contact us at [email protected] or give us a call on 01270904911.

Yes you can call us on 0808 189 0725 option 1 from 9am to 4pm Monday to Friday and we will manually process your order. It will be a lot quicker process if you have already registered on our site. Don't worry if you haven't we can do this for you. The order cut off is 2pm each day for a next day delivery but this is not guaranteed. If we are swamped with calls please leave a message with your name, number and the best time to call you back. Or email us with the same details for your call back.

You can choose to send the parcel as a gift to a different recipient. We do not include any prices on the picking sheet we include in the parcel. Please be aware the first address window at the checkout is the delivery address the next is the invoice/card address. Underneath the shopping cart is Gift Options – click this expand and add a greeting. This greeting will be printed in bold on the picking sheet and added to your gift.

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