Iain Mellis has an excellent reputation for fine cheese in Scotland, and I really enjoyed my visit to their shop in Glasgow:
The shop has its own cellar, so that they can mature their cheeses properly.
There's a good selection of Scottish cheeses like Anster cheese, Cambus O'May, Clava Brie, Grimbister Orkney cheese, and Lanark Blue:
There's also great cheeses from England, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy and Spain:
They sell some good goats' cheese, like Ragstone from Herefordshire, or Chabis and melt in the mouth Selles sur Cher from France:
If you've been brought up on Edam, and think Dutch cheese is boring and tasteless, try this two year old Reypenaer Gouda:
Another good mature Dutch cheese was this Prima Donna:
which, as the label says, was rich and both sweet and salty.
They also sell this creamy Wyngaard Affineurs goat gouda:
To go with your cheese there's bread from Different Breid
and a nice selection of olives
At the back of the shop there's charcuterie:
They sell Parma ham:
and Falorni Finocchio salami (flavoured with fennel seeds), Salame Toscano, and Felino which is flavoured only with salt pepper and the local wine:
They stock Corrie Mains Free Range Eggs from Ayrshire, and also duck eggs:
There's wines to go with your cheese and also some interesting other items. They sell Papercup coffee from an artisan coffee roaster, who's also on Great Western Road. Tea comes via Ireland from Barry's Tea and Campbell's tea and also from Ireland is Irish Matcha porridge:
I J Mellis
492 Great Western Road
Glasgow
G12 8EW
0141 339 8998
Web: www.mellischeese.net
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