The guys at Bruny Island Cheese Co. know there’s nothing quite like the love a parent has for their child. Except, perhaps, the love you’ll have for your beautiful cheese baby, which could be delivered to your doorstep come mid-December. The Tassie cheese experts will take care of all the hard work for you, maturing, turning and rubbing the precious creation, while sending you updates along the way. The end result will be a beautifully crafted wheel of Raw Milk C2 – the only raw-milk hard cheese being made in Australia. Typically found in the mountains of France and northern Italy, this classic cooked-curd cheese features a sweet aroma and mildly nutty flavour. This year the team will be offering cheese made exclusively from their dairy, having milked their own rare-breed cows and had the pleasure of controlling every factor that influences the flavour.

During the months of May and June, the Bruny Island Cheese Co. surrogates will custom-craft the traditional wheels, carving your name (or special note) and the cheese’s date of birth into its rind, before sending you a birth certificate and portrait photo to gush over. Each handmade wheel will weigh between four-to-five kilograms and last several weeks after you’ve cracked it. Purchase one as the ultimate Christmas gift for a cheese fanatic, collaborate with friends in a shared adoption or simply await the pending arrival of your very own beauty. Check out the full range of Bruny Island Cheese Co. products or order your wheel of Raw Milk C2 online.