After eight successful years on the Comboyne plateau, Comboyne Culture has been moved to Taree by its second owner, Peter Jeffrey. This cheese making enterprise is now housed in the same building as standout German butcher, Mentges Master Meats. You'll find the factory outlet store - Cheese Cave - fronting the small factory. It offers Comboyne Culture cheeses, plus a small range of other local products, like Kingston Creek Creamery ice cream. Having mostly given up on flavourless Australian Camembert, I was pleased to find a bit more richness in the Comboyne Culture Camembert, made on local milk sourced from the picturesque Manning Valley. My mother-in-law, who generally eschews strong flavours, was also convinced to try the Bluembert. Even as a non-blue cheese eater, she quite enjoyed this creamy, surfaced-ripened blue cheese. My pick of the bunch was the blue vein cheese called Lindsay Blue, named for the company’s original cheesemaker. ...read more
