Perl Las

Perl Las is made on the Caws Cenarth’s farm in Lancych, a rural hamlet near Cenarth in scenic Carmarthenshire.

Caws Cenarth are the longest established farmhouse producer of Caerffili in Wales, and indeed the world. The family have a six generation tradition of cheesemaking in the family, dating back to 1903, and have been fully established as a business since 1987. The cheese making side of the business started as a response to the milk quotas of the 1980’s but has led the family to become famous for their farm diversification and for leading a renaissance in Welsh cheesemaking. 

Their famous Caerffili is still made in the exact way that it was by Carwyn’s Great Great Grandmothers Lizzie Wyn and Leisa Jones over 120 years ago. It famously won Champion Cheese at the Royal Welsh Show for 7 years in a row! Since then, they have branched out into making other cheeses and now also produce the Perl Las, Perl Wen & Golden Cenarth, among others.

The dairy believe that the terroir - the rainfall, sunshine and coastal climate of South West Wales, as well as the love they put in, make their cheese truly unique.

Organically reared cows are protected so are guaranteed a huge amount of space, access to pasture and as much time outside as possible. Organic standards also ban the routine use of antibiotics and wormers and instead ensure that cows have ample space to roam, which naturally reduces stress and disease and removes the need to use them in the first place. Organic fed cows cannot be fed GM animal feed so their carbon footprint is much lower than barn kept cows as food doesn’t need to be grown for them elsewhere and so there are very few, if any, food miles involved in their feeding. Farms run under these organic standards also see a vast increase in biodiversity on site.