2 Year Old Templegall Tasting Box

In 2001 Dan Hegarty and his brother John decided to diversify their farm and start producing cheese from the family’s own herd of Irish Friesian cows milked by Dan and John’s Dad, Jim, developing a traditional farm-made Cheddar.

In 2016 they employed Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Enjelvin to help out on the cheesemaking side.  Jean-Baptiste had lots of experience from working the in the dairy industry in France, including a degree studying Comté production.  He persuaded Dan and John to let him develop a huge 40kg Comté-style cheese akin to what he was accustomed to making.  Hence, Templegall was born.

This style of cheese is incredibly difficult to make with milk from winter-fed animals, so it is only made throughout the summer months, when the animals are grass-fed, and sold the following year.

These are the first of the 2025 vintage to be released, at 12 months old. With time the mellow, sweet, caramel flavours will intensify as the cheese gets stronger and different flavours develop.  As a cheese matures the fats and proteins break down, affecting the textures, flavours and volatile esters (smells), and the minerals can crystallise.

The box includes 500g of cheese: 250g of 12-month-old Templegall, freshly released from last year’s making, and 250g of 24-month-old Templegall.