It’s party season and Asda’s hosting! What better way to impress your guests than with a classic Christmas cheeseboard? Gather around a luxurious collection of flavourful blues, smoky Cheddars, and some unique new taste sensations such as a salted caramel Wensleydale. Asda has a delicious selection, bound to make your festive cheeseboard a cracker.
Extra Special Spanish Aged Cheese with Truffle
Produced with pure Spanish sheep milk and premium black truffles, this cheese is matured for 4 months, giving an intense yet balanced flavour. Satisfying the most sophisticated of palettes, its subtle black truffle aroma is enough to impress amateurs and experts alike.
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £4.00
Extra Special Goats Cheese with Red Wine
This mild yet flavoursome cheese is made with goat’s milk and bathed in red wine, giving it a festive red colour and a smooth texture. This cheese is a different yet tasty alternative to pop on your Christmas cheese board.
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £3.00
Extra Special Triple Crème Blue
If blue cheese is one of your favourite Christmas indulgences, the Extra Special Triple Crème Blue will not disappoint with its aromatic, rich, buttery and mildly piquant flavour and creamy consistency.
Available 22nd November
Price: £3.00
Extra Special Stilton
This Extra Special 1kg Blue Stilton cheese is a delicious Christmas treat which adds theatre to any occasion! It has been expertly prepared at the world famous multi award winning Tuxford and Tebbutt creamery in Melton Mowbray – the home of English Stilton – with a history stretching back to 1780.
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £8.00
Extra Special Brie de Pays
This authentic French brie is made from fresh unpasteurised milk, providing a characteristic robust, full bodied flavour. Matured for up to 13 days, the ripening process ensures that each and every brie is ripe and ready to eat, with an almost flowing consistency.
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £3.00
Smoky Chipotle Chilli Cheddar Truckle
For a little spice, why not try this creamy Cheddar cheese combined with smoky chipotle chilli, sweet chilli jam and sundried peppers? An irresistible savoury flavour with warming chilli notes.
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £1.00
Extra Special Vintage Gouda
Take a bite of this Vintage Gouda for a journey through delicious flavours. Initially this cheese is savoury and buttery, then the intense caramel, butterscotch flavours burst through. With a firm texture, this authentic Gouda contains crunchy calcium lactate crystals, which only form in truly aged cheeses.
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £3.00
White Chocolate and Salted Caramel Wensleydale
Surprise your guests with something a bit different on the cheeseboard. This product takes creamy red tractor farm assured Wensleydale, and combines it with a sweet white chocolate and flavours of salted caramel – why not give it a try?
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £1.00
Extra Special Spiced Apple and Pear Chutney
No cheeseboard is complete without chutney! This British Bramley apple and British conference & comice pear chutney is packed full of spices. Sweet cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and turmeric work beautifully together to create the most festive of flavours.
Available on 15th October.
Price: £1.44 (on Rollback for £1.00 8th Nov – 31st Dec)
Extra Special Beetroot and Orange Chutney
The earthy flavours of British beetroot and the citrus kick of orange, is a match made under the Christmas tree! This chutney is enhanced with a hint of horseradish and perfectly accompanies any cheese on top of a cracker from the Extra Special Biscuits for Cheese Selection (£2.48).
Available on 15th October.
Price: £1.44 (on Rollback for £1.00 8th Nov – 31st Dec)
Extra Special Iberico Spanish Bellota
Rich and sweet, this dry cured ham is air dried for a minimum of 36 months for a nutty flavour and a melt-in-the-mouth texture – a must-have Christmas charcuterie, and delicious served with Asda Nocellara Olives (£2.00) and Rich Sundried Tomatoes (£2.00).
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £5.00
Extra Special Cornish Camembert with a Cranberry and Port Dip
To add a different texture to your festive cheese display, why not serve up these Cornish Camembert wedges? Coated in a delicate breadcrumb with poppy seeds, these wedges are served with a sweet cranberry & port dip – delicious!
Available on 22nd November.
Price: £3.00