Carrying on from the Sausage thread, what is your favourite Aussie cheese? I find the tasty cheeses generally aren't, but there are some fabulous bries, camemberts etc. Milawa do some great cheeses and I found a blue that was very similar to Stilton.

Also does anyone know if you can still get Red Seal cheese in the UK? It was a very sharp cheddar type and gritty, great with oatcakes. I used to get it from ASDA, don't know if the other supermarkets stocked it. I don't see it on their website, but there is Seriously Strong which seems to have similar packaging from what I recall.

If so I will get me Mum to bring some out next time she comes!

I do like a bit of blue.

No can do, unless the rules have changed in the last couple of months. The UK has to be confirmed Foot&Mouth free for a certain number of years before cheese will be allowed into Australia from there again. There was a window of about 6 months a few years back when I managed to bring some in but as far as I know its still on the banned list.

"Tasty" cheese is an insult to the word tasty! I get the really strong crackerboard vintage cheddar, thats OK for everyday stuff.
Tassie's cheese are the best I find - their Brie is really good, and their Ashgrove cheese is pretty good too, I like the peppercorn one.
Kenilworth in Queensland does some which is pretty good, and nif you look carefully you can find some imported stuff from Holland and the UK though you'll have to pay for it.

I really miss farm cheeses, used to get mine from a farm shop near Lewes, allkinds of flavours including a pickled onione and a horseradish one

However I still reckon the best cheese I've ever tasted was Tasmanian Strawberry Cheese - absolutely delicious

How come I can buy Chedder, made in England, in Woolies then?

Mum arrived last Sunday with some Lake District Cheese Co strong cheddar which is yummy. I checked with AQIS beforehand and they advised there was no problem if it originated in the UK and was commercially wrapped.

I too thought the F&M outbreak was a problem but apparently not.

yeay!! We must be F&M free again!! Hadn't checked for a good while I must admit. Please no outbreaks between now and early October and I'll be back with a case-full of the stuff

Cos its commercially imported, different rules

So primula cheese could be sent over now? Does anyone know?

I loooove Bega 'Strong & Bitey'

Our favourite 'everyday' cheese is Nimbin, can't stand most other cheddar types around here.

I just bought a Tassie cheese selection for socialising over the weekend actually, seem to remember that was nice from the last time.

I fancied a selection of cheese for a ploughman's type lunch, by the time I'd selected several small packs of European cheese I'd totalled about $40 So it was cheaper to go to the Pig & Whistle & have a Ploughman's & several pints of fat Yak
I did find a sort of pre packed cheese board the other day for about $7 bucks enough for two couples & 4 bottles of wine, not brilliant but nice enough to be different

OP, pray tell, where did you find some decent brie over here???

Cheese is not on a banned list from the UK. It's being imported to Aus... Quick's Aged Cheddar for example... an excellent bitey cheddar. Specifically, that come cloth wrapped in a waxed cloth and are not 'wrapped' in any other plastic wrapping which would affect the cheese.

There are also new rules on pasteurisation too, which mean you can purchase unpasteurised French cheeses from good deli's that stock them. They're wrapped as they would be when bought in the UK and I've found the texture to be excellent.
I've recently been managing a deli in the Blue Mountains that stocks some excellent English, French, Dutch, Swiss etc cheeses, as well as a load from Tas etc.
When I don't shop there, I go to David Jones food hall for other stuff, such as Stilton, which has always been there for the past 3 years at least.

Have some Pont L'Eveque and triple cream sheep's cheese as we speak......from our local deli. It is expensive but SO worth it! If anyone in Geelong wants the name of the deli, ask. They have all sorts and it changes each week. Had a lovely Spanish one last week when a friend was staying........

Our local Woolies has at least three different French Brie's This is up here in the middle of bum**** nowhere or Gympie to the locals