Last week, our buyer and director Jane Hastings held an online seminar on all things Comté - from the region's origins, how socioeconomics paved way for the success of Comté production, to how and why we select our wheels from affineurs Rivoire-Jacquemin. 

The early part of a new year is an interesting mixture of resolutions, reflections and in the long dark evenings, a need still, despite all the rich food and festivities of Christmas, for things that cheer.

If you look to our historical past, you’ll find that from the Middle Ages, a need to extend some festive cheer was acknowledged with the traditions of Twelfth Night celebrated on January 5^th, the night before Epiphany and a spirit of Carnevale which in some form or other lasted from Epiphany until Shrove Tuesday.