Somerset Food & Drink Producers

We are the only cheesemakers left in Cheddar and you can watch whilst we show you how we make a traditional cheddar.

Say ‘Somerset’ and most people think of Cheddar cheese so it is fitting that the world’s oldest surviving makers of it should be based here. To go with it, we make the perfect accompaniment, cider. These are not the only treats to sample on a foodie tour of the County which could take in oysters from Exmoor, strawberries from Cheddar, Trout from the Quantocks and of course a Somerset Cream Tea.

For more than a hundred years, family-run Thatchers Cider has been quietly perfecting the magic that turns apples into cider.