United States

Located near California’s coast in Paso Robles, Central Coast Creamery is gaining momentum in the domestic artisan cheese category. At the helm is Reggie Jones, a veteran of the dairy industry, who has worked in various aspects of quality control, production management, whey refining and sales of cheese cultures and enzymes. After considering their next venture, Reggie’s family...

Cowgirl Creamery’s newest cheese is Hop Along, a rich, semi-firm organic cow’s milk cheese washed with organic cider and aged 45 days, similar to cheeses made centuries ago by Trappist monks. The nose is yeasty and sweet, reminiscent of an apple orchard, and the paste is pudgy with a silky mouthfeel that melts easily on the tongue. Hop Along offers bright acidity and...

Over one hundred years old, Carr Valley Cheese Company is still going strong thanks to fourth generation cheesemaker Sid Cook. You can’t go to a cheese shop in Wisconsin without running into a Carr Valley cheese. Sid is notorious for his playfulness and inventiveness in cheesemaking.  Marisa is a semi-firm sheep’s milk cheese named after Sid’s daughter. The flavors are...

Central Coast Creamery is located near California’s coast in Paso Robles. The area itself was once home to a number of dairies; however, during the 1970s these independent farms lost their steam and were extinct by the end of the decade. Armed with 25 years of experience in the industry, Reggie Jones and his wife Kellie started the creamery hoping to rejuvenate the once...

Central Coast Creamery is located near California’s coast in Paso Robles. The area itself was once home to a number of dairies; however, during the 1970’s these independent farms lost their steam and were extinct by the end of the decade. Armed with 25 years of experience in the industry, Reggie Jones and his wife Kellie started the creamery hoping to rejuvenate the once...

What do you get when a financial services executive and a chef buy a farm in rural Maryland? A creamery, of course! Mike Koch and his chef husband Pablo Solanet didn’t have any cheesemaking experience, but they quickly learned by attending classes at University of Wisconsin at Madison. Following cheese legends like Mary Keehn at Cypress Grove and Judy Schad at Capriole, they...

What do you get when a financial services executive and a chef buy a farm in rural Maryland? A creamery, of course! Mike Koch and his chef husband Pablo Solanet didn’t have any cheesemaking experience, but they quickly learned by attending classes at University of Wisconsin at Madison. Following cheese legends like Mary Keehn at Cypress Grove and Judy Schad at Capriole, they...

Bridgman Blue is the newest cheese from Jasper Hill and springs from their new herd of goats on nearby Bridgman Hill Farm. Bridgman joins Eligo as the next mixed-milk cheese that Jasper Hill has developed and released. Made in a similar fashion to Bayley Hazen Blue, Bridgman Blue balances the fudgy and umami cow’s milk flavors that are present in Bayley, but adds a funky and...

Produced in Cowgirl’s facility in Petaluma, California, this line maintains the high-quality standards Cowgirl has set for the past 20 years, but along a simpler set of products. They’ve only been distributing these cheeses locally, due to their short shelf life. We have been working with them since the start to set up special order and make cycle that would allow us to sell...

Produced in Cowgirl’s facility in Petaluma, California, this line maintains the high-quality standards Cowgirl has set for the past 20 years, but along a simpler set of products. They’ve only been distributing these cheeses locally, due to their short shelf life. We have been working with them since the start to set up special order and make cycle that would allow us to sell...