This cheese typically has long, sweet pineapple flavours, but it can also be rich and savoury. Generally the texture is smooth, close, and densely creamy, almost like a Comté.
Lincolnshire Poacher is one of a very few cheeses made on the east coast of England, which Simon Jones describes as a 'dairy farming desert'. Their drier climate and well-drained soil afford them a particularly long grazing season.