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Lanark Blue vs Stilton

Lanark Blue

Facts

Milk
Sheep
Texture
Semi-hard
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
United Kingdom

Lanark Blue is a Scottish blue cheese from the United Kingdom, made with raw sheep's milk. It is often set beside Roquefort in style, because both are sheep's milk cheeses with blue veins, but it is its own farmhouse wheel. The paste is creamy and ivory, with blue-green lines through it. A natural rind may show white, blue, and gray mold before the cheese is wrapped for sale. The taste is salty, rich, and tangy, and it changes with the season and the length of aging.

Stilton, field guide plate
Stilton, photographed

Stilton

Facts

Milk
Cow
Texture
Semi-hard
Type
Blue
Rind
Natural rind
Country
United Kingdom
Place
Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire
Status
PDO

Stilton is a blue cow's-milk cheese from England. The protected cheese is made only in Derbyshire, Leicestershire, or Nottinghamshire. It is not made in the village of Stilton.