Click and Collect from Matatoki · Open Tuesday to Sunday, 9am to 3pm

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Our cheese · Certified organic, made at Matatoki

Organic cheese from the farm gate

Dutch-style goudas aged on timber shelves, soft white-rind camembert and brie, a Roquefort-style blue, hand-stretched mozzarella and a champion halloumi. All made here from certified organic milk, with nothing added that doesn’t need to be.

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Yoghurt and dairy
Cheese Barn organic gouda, camembert, brie and blue with BioGro certified labels

✓ BioGro certified organic

✓ Unhomogenised, grass-fed milk

✓ Gluten free, no GMO

✓ NZ Champions of Cheese medallists

The range

Every cheese we make

Prices include GST. Choose chilled delivery within the Waikato at checkout, or Click and Collect from the barn at Matatoki. Outside the Waikato? Check Where to Buy for a stockist or delivery service near you, or email info@thecheesebarn.co.nz to find out your options.

Know your cheese

The goudas

Made to a traditional Dutch recipe and matured for at least four to six months before we cut them. Plain, cumin seed, or garlic and chive. Creamy, golden and made for the cheese board, the sandwich and the fondue pot. Our most decorated cheeses, including a Champion of Champions for the cumin seed in 2018.

Soft and white-rinded

Camembert and brie made from organic whole milk, starters, cultures and salt, then slowly matured in a humid room until the rind blooms and the centre softens. The brie took gold at the 2021 NZ Cheese Awards.

Blue, fresh and cooking

Kallarney Blue is a Roquefort-style creamy blue with a full flavour and a closed texture. Our mozzarella is fresh and hand-stretched, with that lovely stringy pull on a pizza. The halloumi keeps its shape and turns golden in the pan, and was named champion at the 2023 NZ Cheese Awards.

Wheels of organic cheese aging on timber shelves

How it’s made

Milk, cultures, salt and time

Our milk comes from a certified organic family farm nearby, from cows that eat grass and never grain. We use unhomogenised milk, and add only starters, cultures and salt. No artificial additives, no antibiotics, no growth hormones, no sprays. Then the wheels go onto timber shelves in the aging room and we wait. What you taste is time, not shortcuts.

There is a viewing window at the barn if you would like to watch. Tuesday and Wednesday are the best days to see cheese being made.

Our story

Getting it to you

Chilled freight or Click and Collect

Cheese is perishable, so we only send it by refrigerated freight, to towns across the Waikato and Hauraki. Deliveries go out on Wednesday and Thursday. Or choose Click and Collect and pick up from the barn. Read the delivery details.

Made for giving

Gift vouchers

A Cheese Barn voucher to spend on cheese, in the cafe or in the shop, and custom-made hampers on request. See gift vouchers.

Also from the dairy

Yoghurt, quark and more

Greek, natural, kefir and lactose-free yoghurt, quark, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, buttermilk and ghee. Browse the dairy.