Midnight Moon is a matured, gouda-style cheese produced in the Netherlands and sold under the Cypress Grove label. Made from pasteurized goat's milk, the cheese is aged for six or more months to produce a dense and smooth ivory-coloured paste that develops a slightly granular mouth feel as it matures off to the 12 month stage. Flavours are of lovely brown butter with intense caramel undertones.Serve the cheese with Belgian Dark, Stout or Trippel or wines such as Syrah, Zinfandel or Sweet Sherry.The cheese has won Gold award at World Cheese Awards 2014, Best in Class, World Championship Cheese Contest, 2010 and Best New Product in Show, NASFT sofi Awards, 2002.

Midnight Moon

Cypress Grove Chevre

Rogue River Blue is an organic cheese made annually with the best cow's milk available, sourced from Rogue Creamery's organic dairy here in Southern Oregon's Rogue Valley. Each wheel has been cave-aged for 9 to 11 months and hand-wrapped in organic Syrah grape leaves that have soaked in pear liqueur.

Named the "Best Cheese in the World" during the 2019 World Cheese Awards in Bergamo, Italy.

Rogue River Blue

Rogue Creamery

Humboldt Fog is a goat’s milk cheese delivered by Cypress Grove Chevre, of Arcata, California, in Humboldt County. It is a mould-ripened cheese with a distinguishing layer of edible ash. The cheese ripens from the outside to the centre, resulting in a fresh goat cheese center surrounded by a pungent runny shell. This runny shell will widen as the cheese matures and is considered the best part of the cheese, by many. The bloomy mold and ash rind is edible, but is fairly tasteless. The cheese is creamy, light, powdery, slightly lemony and mildly goaty.
Humboldt Fog is available from a mini 1 lbs. cheese wheel (Humboldt Fog® Mini) up to the large 5 lbs. cheese wheel (Humboldt Fog® Grande).
 
The cheese has won the first place at the American Cheese Society in 1998, 2002 and 2005 and Gold at the 2014 World Cheese Awards.

Humboldt Fog

Prairie Breeze is a well-aged white Cheddar style cheese and aged for a minimum of 9 months. It is made with vegetarian rennet with no added colour. The texture is crumbly yet creamy with a slight crunch from the calcium crystals developed during the prolonged aging. Flavours are medium sharp with some subtle grassy tones.

Prairie Breeze Cheddar

Milton Creamery LLC

Merlot BellaVitano is a unique Cheddar-Parmesan inspired Italian farmstead cow's cheese immersed in fine Merlot wine to give it extra tang and a delicious merlot flavour. The liquor marination adds hints of berry and plum to the nutty, fruity flavours of the rich, creamy BellaVitano. A Sartori-family original, this gourmet cheese is a celebrated silver medal winner at the 2014 World Cheese Awards.
This artisan cheese tastes delicious with dried nuts, dried fruits, crusty Italian bread and crusty French bread. Try pairing the cheese with wines such as Shiraz, Merlot and Pinot Noir. You can also pair India pale ale, hoppy pilsners or wheat beers with the cheese for a great combination.

Sartori Reserve Merlot Bellavitano

Sartori

Beecher's Flagship is an American award winning cheese handmade at the Pike Place market in Seattle. The semi-hard cow's milk cheese is left to cave age for at least 15 months to develop a uniquely robust, nutty flavour and distinctive crumble.Flagship Reserve is a special version, which uses only last curds of the milk when its composition is just right. It is richer in taste & texture with a clean and creamy finish. In addition, the wheels are bandaged in cheesecloth and open-aged for over a year to allow optimum moisture loss during aging, focusing on the rich flavour with a long finish.Beecher's Flagship is an artisanal cheese that is served best on a cheese plate. Crumble into an omelette or frittata or add to make your favourite Mac & Cheese.
Yule Käse is a unique version of Flagship Reserve cheese. The cheese is clothbound and aged for 13 months in open-air. In addtion, it is further aged in red wine and blackberry honey that gives nutty and caramel flavour with hints of honey and berries.

Beecher’s Flagship

Beecher's

Bayley Hazen Blue is a buttery, natural-rinded blue cheese made from high-quality whole raw cow's milk. 

It is a Jasper Hill Farm product, named after an old military road commissioned by George Washington across the Northeast Kingdom. Brothers Andy and Mateo Kehler who own the farm, developed the recipe for Bayley Hazen Blue by altering the shape and aging process of a Devon Blue recipe from England, so that the cheese rind will hold up in usual retail conditions

The texture of Bayley Hazen Blue is firm and slightly dry than other blues. However, it is also dense and creamy, with well-distributed blue veins. The cream-coloured paste is characterized by deep, dark heartiness of pepper, tobacco and roasted hazelnuts set off by subdued grassy, nutty flavours in the milk.

Bayley Hazen Blue tastes beautiful with a glass of fruity red dessert wine, toasty Imperial Stout, or a chunk of dark chocolate. Pair it with a spinach salad, walnuts, and dried tart cherries to accentuate its flavour.

This celebrated cheese has won many international awards including Super gold at the 2014 World Cheese Awards. It has been judged as one of the world's 62 best cheeses.

Bayley Hazen Blue

Jasper Hill Farm

Mt Tam is a soft, triple-cream cheese made with pasteurized cow's milk, produced by Cowgirl Creamery, based in Marin County, California, United States. The cheese is a combination of organic milk and cream. Mt Tam is smooth, creamy and soft on the tongue and melts in the mouth instantly. This smooth and dense textured cheese is rich and buttery with hints of mushrooms, grass and hay. The cheese pairs well with a Champagne or a Sancerre.

Mt Tam

Cowgirl Creamery

Harbison is a Jasper Hill Creamery cheese named after Anne Harbison, the original contributor to the making of this cheese.

It is a soft-ripened cow's milk cheese with a bloomy rind, wrapped in strips of spruce cambium, which are harvested from the woodlands of Jasper Hill.  When ripe, Harbison has a very spoonable texture that continues to soften until consumed. It’s woodsy and sweet with lemony, mustardy, and vegetal flavours.

Oaked white wine or barrel-aged sour beers make great accompaniments. Also, don’t forget some fruit mostarda and crusty bread. The cheese is held together by the bark, which can be peeled off when it is a bit younger. However, with loosened cheese, it is better that the bark is kept as is and the portions are spooned out separately.

Harbison

Espresso Bellavitano is a unique Cheddar-Parmesan inspired Italian farmstead cow's cheese rubbed with fresh ground Italian roast espresso beans. The sweet, slightly smoky, roasted flavours of an espresso coffee complements the creamy and sweet BellaVitano. A Sartori-family original, this gourmet cheese is a celebrated gold medal winner at the 2014 World Cheese Awards. This artisan cheese tastes delicious with sweet pastries, nuts, bagels, chocolate and dried apricots.
Try pairing the cheese with wines such as Pinot Noir, Merlot and Chardonnay. You can also pair fruit beers, porter or barley wine with the cheese for a great combination.

Sartori Reserve Espresso Bellavitano

Willoughby is an exclusive Jasper Hill Farm creation, a creamery that not only makes cheeses but also offers cheese maturing caves for other Vermont based producers. The cheese was originally created by Marisa Mauro's Ploughgate Creamery, but after a fire in 2011, Jaspers resurrected the recipe and continue to make it at their farm.This washed rind cheese is made from pasteurized cow's milk. It has a semi-soft, buttery texture with occasional eyes and pale yellow-caramel paste. Flavours range from delicate milky, herbal, ripe-peach that advance into peat, roasted beef and onions aromas imparted by the rind.Willoughby pairs perfectly with a Rose, Saison beer or raw floral honey.

Best American Cheese

Midnight Moon

Rogue River Blue

Humboldt Fog

Prairie Breeze Cheddar

Sartori Reserve Merlot Bellavitano

Beecher’s Flagship

Bayley Hazen Blue

Mt Tam

Harbison

Sartori Reserve Espresso Bellavitano

Willoughby

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