A visit to Borough Market does not have to end when the shopping bags leave Southwark. In this Roberts London film, published on 29 May 2022, a market haul is carried home and turned into an unhurried cheese and wine tasting.

The table brings together a bottle selected from Bedales, sourdough from Bread Ahead, whey butter and British cheeses associated with Neal’s Yard Dairy, and Ibérico ham from Brindisa. It is less a formal tasting than a record of how good market shopping can shape the rest of a London day.

From Borough Market to the kitchen table

The film opens at Borough Market before moving to the tasting table. The first arrival is the wine, bought from Bedales. The bottle is opened and the red wine is poured into a broad-based decanter, giving the tasting a natural starting point while the food is unwrapped.

The prices and individual stock shown belong to May 2022. Wine lists and market ranges change, but the sequence remains useful: allow the wine to open while bringing the food to the table.

Bread Ahead sourdough and whey butter

Bread Ahead’s sourdough provides the foundation. The loaf has a dark, well-developed crust and an open interior ready for butter and cheese. Bread Ahead continues to bake and sell sourdough at Borough Market, although products and trading arrangements should always be checked for the day of a visit.

The Abbey Farm whey butter is treated as an ingredient in its own right rather than simply an accompaniment. Spread generously onto the sourdough, it introduces the dairy flavours before the cheeses appear.

Three contrasting British cheeses

The first named cheese is Sparkenhoe Red Leicester. Its orange colour makes it immediately recognisable on the table, while the tasting concentrates on texture and flavour rather than turning the film into a technical lesson.

Rollright follows. This soft, washed-rind cheese provides a deliberate contrast with the Red Leicester. The film also includes a look back at the cheese counter, placing the individual purchases within the much broader choice found around Borough Market.

A blue cheese completes the trio. By this stage the table has become a working spread of wrappers, bread, glasses and partly tasted pieces. That informality is part of the film’s value: it captures the meal as it actually developed.

Brindisa Ibérico ham and the complete haul

The final savoury element is sliced Ibérico ham from Brindisa. The packet is shown clearly before the ham joins the remaining bread, cheese and wine. Brindisa remains closely associated with Spanish food at Borough Market, but the pack, price and availability shown here are those of 2022.

Seen together, the purchases form a coherent tasting without requiring cooking or restaurant service. The pleasure lies in choosing from specialist traders and then deciding the pace and order at home.

This was the first Roberts London cheese-and-wine tasting film. It preserves both a particular Borough Market haul and a simple approach worth repeating: good bread, butter, contrasting cheeses, cured meat and a bottle given time to open.