MILKING IT

The North Otago town of Oamaru is best-known in New Zealand for its built heritage. The town is blessed with an abundance of ornately decorated Victorian buildings constructed from locally quarried limestone. That limestone, a sedimentary rock laid down millions of years ago when much of New Zealand was still underwater, also plays a part in creating Whitestone’s award-winning blocks of another kind. Simon says the limestone soils in the area help promote flourishing sweet pastures, which in turn makes for great milk. “Our location means we have a fantastic water supply, which runs directly from the glaciers of Mount Cook to our mineralrich soil. We have a great raw product on our doorstep. That’s our point of difference.” whitestonecheese.com