Tintern cheese

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Tintern

Country of origin	Wales
Region	Monmouthshire
Town	Abergavenny
Source of milk	Cows
Texture	Soft

Tintern is a blended mature creamy Cheddar cheese flavoured with fresh chives and shallots, made by Abergavenny Fine Foods. Typically produced in wheels of 2.25 kg, it is sold in a distinctive lime green wax covering.

It takes its name from the village of Tintern on the River Wye, in Monmouthshire, Wales. The monks of Tintern Abbey are said to have farmed shallots in the abbey gardens in the grounds.^{[citation needed]}

v t e British cheeses

England	Applewood Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Beenleigh Blue Bowland Buxton Blue Cheddar Cheshire Chevington Coquetdale Derby Dorset Blue Vinney Dovedale Fine Fettle Yorkshire Five Counties Gloucester Harbourne Blue Lancashire Lincolnshire Poacher Little Derby Newport 1665 Norbury Blue Red Leicester Red Windsor Sage Derby Shropshire Blue Stichelton Stilton Stinking Bishop Suffolk Gold Sussex Slipcote Swaledale Waterloo Wensleydale Wrekin White Cornish Yarg

Scotland	Bonchester Caboc Crowdie Dunlop Lanark Blue

Wales	Caerphilly Pantysgawn Tintern Y Fenni

Manufacturers & brands	Carmarthenshire Cheese Company Cathedral City Coleraine Ilchester Cheese Company Neal's Yard Dairy Pilgrims Choice Yeo Valley Organic

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