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YORKSHIRE people are to be given the first opportunity to say what they think about the latest product from The Wensleydale Creamery – Pineapple Twist.
The creamery at Hawes is to showcase its new recipe of Real Yorkshire Wensleydale with Pineapple at the Dales Festival of Food and Drink in Leyburn this weekend.
The latest addition to its extensive cheese range follows a substantial period of growth at the company, which employs 198 people. Several major deals have been secured with leading retailers in recent months.
It follows the creamery's investment of more than 360,000 in the latest cheese blending, cutting and packing equipment, which helped it to secure the new contracts.
The creamery is continuing to produce traditional Wensleydale Cheese, which was first made in the Dale in 1150 by Cistercian monks. It makes around 3,300 tonnes of cheese a year with milk sourced from local farms.
Its managing director, David Hartley, said: "As a committed supporter of the rural economy through our supply chains, we wanted to further strengthen that commitment by previewing our latest cheese recipe on home territory at one of the leading countryside events in the Yorkshire Dales calendar.
"The Dales Festival of Food and Drink, which is held in the very heart of Wensleydale, attracts hundreds of visitors."
The Yorkshire Post Uniquely Yorkshire campaign is backing the company in its bid for European protection for Yorkshire Wensleydale to prevent it being imitated.
The Dales Festival of Food and Drink was launched in 2002 and this year's festival is being held throughout the three days of this Bank Holiday weekend from 10am to 5pm.
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