Wensleydale Blog
MEP support for Real Yorkshire Wensleydale
Richard Corbett, Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, has pointed out that the “EU’s Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) scheme appears to have finally caught the imaginination in the UK”.
On his blog at Richard Corbett says: “Earlier this month Wensleydale progressed to the next stage of their campaign by taking 14,000 signatures of support (including mine) to the House of Commons in a bid to win the backing it needs from Defra before taking its case to Europe.
“Now Yorkshire’s famous rhubarb triangle is aiming for PDO status. The area between Leeds, Pontefract and Wakefield was once responsible for over 90% of the world’s rhubarb, which is renown for its forced growth in the dark and its subsequent sweeter, longer stalks.
“Both rhubarb and Wensleydale cheese fully deserve to be recognised with a PDO, as they are unique products that only specific parts of Yorkshire can produce and should be protected from poor quality imitators.”
Thanks for your support Richard - you’re welcome to visit us at the creamery anytime you are in Hawes.
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This last Christmas 2007, my wife and I discovered your Wensleydale cheese boxed together with Botham’s ‘fruitcake for cheese’ and thought we had died and gone to Heaven. We are now living in Texas but both born and bred in Scarborough, drink Yorkshire Gold tea from Harrogate and miss Yorkshire food.
Thank you for the memories brought back by your cheese, of hiking and camping all over the Dales and the wonderful farmhouse food.
Peter and Joyce Birley