From Somerset, UK.
Stinking Bishop has been voted Britain’s smelliest cheese in the first ever smell championship. The pungent cheese, made by Charles Martell of Martell and Son in Gloucestershire, was described as smelling like a rugby club changing room at Britain’s Smelliest Cheese Championships, held at The Royal Bath and West Show in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.

It took top spot ahead of Driftwood by Whitelake Cheeses, with St Oswald by Gorsehill Abbey in third. Tim Rowcliffe, Chair of the judging panel, of Antony Rowcliffe speciality cheeses, said: “The cheeses were all fantastically smelly but Stinking Bishop absolutely knocked us out.”

Stinking Bishop is washed in a Gloucestershire perry made from a pear variety called Stinking Bishop. The pear was named after a reprobate farmer with an appalling reputation as a drunkard, who famously shot his kettle when it took too long to boil.

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