Dorset Blue Vinney cheese

Blue Vinney is a traditional PGI blue cheese made in Dorset, from skimmed cows' milk. It is a hard, crumbly cheese. "Vinney" is a local Dorset term related to the obsolete word "vinew", which means to become mouldy. Another explanation has it that "vinny" is a corruption of "veiny", referring to the blue veins running throughout the cheese.

Blue Vinney cheese

The cheese is often made from unpasteurised milk and has a not-too-strong taste and aroma. It has a nutty and creamy texture.

While the cheese was a common farmhouse cheese in Dorset for hundreds of years, production dried up around 1960 and the cheese became extinct. However, in the 1980s Woodbridge Farm in Dorset revived the old recipe, and it is now producing the cheese again as The Dorset Blue Co. They also produce a range of (mostly cheese related) soup.

In his poem Praise O' Do'set the Dorset poet William Barnes asks,

Woont ye have brown bread a-put ye, An' some vinny cheese a-cut ye?

Blue Vinney goes well with Dorset Knobs (a type of savoury biscuit), another traditional product from Dorset.

Calories in different varieties and various types of cheeses

The number of calories in various types of cheese is very similar when you compare your cheese to a similar types of cheese.

For example, almost cheeses that are similar to Cheddar cheese have around 400 calories per 100g

If the Dorset Blue Vinney cheese is not listed below, select a similar type of cheese from the list below to get a rough idea for the number of calories in Dorset Blue Vinney cheese.

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Cheese type	Calories per 100g
American cheese	371
Blue cheese	353
Camembert cheese	299
Cheddar cheese	402
Cottage cheese	98
Edam cheese	357
Farmer's cheese	98
Feta cheese	264
Fontina cheese	389
Goat cheese	364
Gouda cheese	356
Gruyere cheese	413
Mozzarella cheese	280
Parmesan cheese	431
Pimento cheese	375
Provolone cheese	352
Queso blanco cheese	310
Ricotta cheese	174
Roquefort cheese	369
Swiss cheese	380

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