Appalachian
 From: $9.66 Appalachian is a densely textured cheese with a supple straw-colored paste. The rind of this gourmet creation is white with glimpses of pink and gray. Appalachian is made from raw milk from Jersey cows, all natural thus no additions of coloring or preservatives.
The gourmet farmstead cheese has a gentle, buttery taste with earthy undertones and citrus notes. Wheels are around average 8 pounds in weight.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of approximately 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |
Appenzeller
 From: $10.84 Appenzeller is a semi-hard mountain gourmet cheese that looks a little like Gruyère but is sharper and has a more pungent farmyard aroma and a distinctively fruity taste, which lingers for a while on the palate.
Originally from the mountain canton of Appenzeller, Switzerland, close to Austria, it is also manufactured in the Swiss cantons of Saint Gallen and Thurgau. Small brown Swiss cows graze on the rich pasture of the alpine forelands and the milk they produce is made into a delicious and full flavored Swiss gourmet cheese, of which the recipe is still kept a secret.
Appenzeller's maturation time is 7 to 12 months and usually peaks at around 9 months. Appenzeller has a characteristic li... |
Asiago Vecchio
 From: $6.87 Asiago Vecchio has an unmistakeably marked flavor, with a distinctive, slightly sharp taste. It is a semi-hard Italian gourmet cheese with a granular texture, is scattered with small to medium-sized holes and has a strawlike color.
It is usually made in the late autumn-winter period with semi-skimmed milk, specifically chosen from the splendid high mountain pastures of the Trentino region and the Asiago plateau, which, together with its long natural ageing, guarantee its quality and bring out its rich flavor.
It is an excellent table cheese, that aged for approximately 1 year and can be eaten alone or with typical regional dishes.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of 8 ounces and 1 po... |
Baby Swiss
 Was $7.58 Sale Price: $3.79 The Boggy Meadow’s Baby Swiss is a all natural farmstead cheese. The cheese is based on an old Alpine recipe and is firm in texture and buttery, nutty and sweet in flavor.
Fresh raw milk is as well as natural cultures and vegetarian rennet are used in this American cheese. Farmstead whole milk varies in flavor and texture in a subtle way, throughout the year.
The Boggy Meadow Farm cheese plant is located in the original 18th century barn and farmhouse in the fertile farmland of the Connecticut River, New Hampshire... |
Bayley Hazen Blue
 From: $11.94 Bayley Hazen Blue is an American artisanal blue cheese with a stable natural rind. It is made with whole raw Ayrshire milk and aged for approximately 75 days.
This farmstead cheese from Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont is made with the Roquefort mold, but reminds you of Stilton. The cheese is drier and crumblier than most blue cheeses and its texture reminds one of chocolate and butter. Bayley Hazen Blue was awarded a second place in Open Category Farmstead Cheese at the American Cheese Society Competition of 2007.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of approximately 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |
Bleu d'Auvergne
 From: $8.15 The French gourmet cheese Bleu d'Auvergne has a wonderful aroma, a rich taste; the saltiness increases with the incidence of veining. The overall flavor is piquant but not overly sharp.
Bleu d'Auvergne started life as an imitation of Roquefort, using cow's milk in place of sheep's milk. Legend has it that a peasant, around 1845, decided to inject his cheese with a blue mold that he found growing on his left-over bread (the motto being, waste not, want not). And thus, the gourmet cheese Bleu d'Auvergne was born.
This French gourmet blue cheese comes from the region of Auvergne and the cheese is made from milk of Salers and Aubrac cows. The rind is very thin and so the cheese is usually wrap... |
Brie de Meaux
 From: $7.80 Brie de Meaux is a big, round, soft gourmet French cheese, has a velvet white mould rind, which changes to a pinkish-beige during the ripening process.
Brie de Meaux is one of the French 'Le Roi des Fromages' (The King of Cheeses) and comes from a particular area in the Ile-de-France near Paris. It is an ancient cheese; the oldest evidence of Brie de Meaux is found in the chronicles of Charlemagne.
The maturation process of this classic gourmet cheese takes 8 weeks. Brie de Meaux has a slightly bitter taste when left to unfold, develops into a completely soft, hazelnut and fruit flavor.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of approximately 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |
Buttermilk Blue
 From: $6.66 Buttermilk Blue is one of the great big blue cheeses of the United States. The Roth Kase cheesemakers begin with the freshest raw milk from herds of predominantly Jersey cows. The homogenized raw milk is inoculated with a secret blend of cultures and cured for at least 2 months while being rotated regularly to insure a perfect cheese.
The first cut of a Buttermilk Blue wheel reveals abundant yellowish-green veins that blossom quickly into deep royal blue. This gourmet cheese is creamy with evenly distributed blue veins and can compete with European blues on your cheese board.
We cut and wrap this gourmet cheese in wedge of 8 ounces and 1 pound.... |
Cabrales
 From: $12.71 Cabrales is a Spanish blue gourmet cheese of great character. It is handmade on farms in the Picos de Europa Mountains of Northern Spain and matured in caves which are aired by cold, damp, and salty winds blowing up from the Bay of Biscay.
Traditionally this gourmet cheese is made with a mixture of cow, sheep and goat milk; the locals say that cow's milk acidifies the cheese, goat's milk gives it its piquancy, and sheep's milk gives it its aroma and buttery texture.
This gourmet cheese has a strong aroma and a lovely tang that is not too salty, but does bite the tongue. It also has a robust flavor of lingering complexity with woody, lemony tones. If you taste Cabrales with other cheeses, m... |
Classic Reserve Vermont Cheddar
 From: $7.99 Classic Reserve Vermont Cheddar is aged for about two years. The Classic Reserve is the signature product of Grafton Village Cheese Company and is the proud recipient of 13 different cheese awards.
It is a raw cow's milk cheese that has depth and a complexity of flavor that is appreciated by many cheese lovers. Aging gives the cheese a longer time to release its moisture, concentrating and developing its flavor. The extra-high butterfat milk of the Jersey cow has a creaminess that offsets the sharpness caused by the lactic acid in the cheese.
We cut and wrap this cheese in blocks of 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |
Comte
 From: $9.70 Comté A.O.C. is an ancient French gourmet cheese, also known as Gruyere de Comte; it is made in the Massif of the Jura, a region composed of medium range mountains situated in Franche-Comté, which lies between the Vosges and the Haute-Savoie. The Montbeliard cow is the only breed of cattle whose milk is authorized for making Comté.
The cheese is hard, straw-colored, contains some medium-size holes and has a tendency to crack on cutting. Comté has a floral aroma with nutty fudge flavors developing in the more mature cheese. The taste is full of nuts and toffee with a lovely long and salty finish. Older cheeses take on a strong, farmyard-like character. The cheese has a thin beige rind which ... |
Crater Lake Blue
 From: $8.41 Crater Lake Blue is Rogue Creamery's most robust blue cheese. The cheese is hand-crafted as all the other cheeses from this artisan cheese company.
Crater Lake Blue is made with a complex blend of molds from Rogue Creamery and around the world, creating a vibrant blue-green color of the veins; a silky texture and bold, blue flavor.
Crater Lake Blue, was awarded a gold medal by the 2004 American Cheese Society, a bronze medal in 2006 at the World Cheese Awards in the UK and most recently a 2nd place in the Blue Mold Cheeses Category at the American Cheese Society Competition in 2007.
We cut and wrap this Blue American Cheese in weges of 8 ounces and 1 pound.... |
Emmental
 From: $6.33 Emmental is a traditional Swiss gourmet cheese with cooked pressed paste. It is produced starting from milk believed of high quality resulting from specific breeds of local cows primarily nourished on grass and the hay.
When most of the world thinks of 'Swiss Cheese' they are really thinking of Emmental. Ours is not some imitation processed cheese, this is the real deal.
Emmental is one of the largest cheeses in physical size in the world. More than 264 gallons of milk is required for one cheese. During the whole of the ripening process the cheeses have to be turned regularly. In the past this had to be done by hand and the strong muscles of the cheese makers were much feared in the wrestl... |
Emmental Cave-Aged
 From: $8.85 In secluded caves near Lucerne, the finest Emmental cheeses mature for about one year. Resting in cool, humid air of these unique sandstone caverns the cheeses acquire dense texture flecked with salt crystals. The result is a refined, yet intense flavor; strong and fruity with a mature woody finish. The gourmet cheese also has a wonderfully complex aroma of meadows and flowers with raisins and wood fires.
Depending on your preference, we also sell the traditional Swiss Emmental that is not as strong as this gourmet cave-aged version.
We cut and wrap this cheese in wedges of approximately 1 pound and 8 ounces.... |
Fontina Val d'Aosta
 From: $9.95 Genuine Fontina is made only in the steep-sided Val d'Aosta in the Italian Alps. Fontina has a creamy brown rind which is thin and oily. The paste is smooth and buttery, when young. It has a pale straw color and a few small holes.
As the cheese matures for 7 months it becomes darker and much drier. Sweet and nutty, Fontina has a complex, balanced taste and a light aroma.
The preparation of this fine Italian gourmet cheese is a recipe that has been handed down over the centuries. It is made exclusively with raw, full-cream milk, from the Valdaostan breed of cows, fed on grass during the summer and local hay throughout the rest of the year.
The milk is made into cheese within 2 hours of mil... |
Fourme d'Ambert
 From: $12.53 Fourme d'Ambert is an ancient French gourmet cheese from the Auvergne that was being made long before English Stilton, which it somewhat resembles.
Fourme d'Ambert is a raw cow's milk gourmet cheese with light blue veining. The cheese has a rough gray-brown rind and the cheese is firm, has an ivory color with greenish-blue veining. It has an interesting aroma of roasted nuts and a fruity flavor and is aged for over 60 days.
'Fourme' comes from the Latin 'forma' (form), referring to the container used to hold the curd. Afterwards, the name 'forme' was retained in the mountains of Forez and Auvergne to refer to cheeses from the region. Fourme was sold primarily at the market in the village o... |
French Raclette
 From: $6.75 Raclette may be the world's most famous melting cheese, and it is made in the Savoie region of the Alps, in Switzerland and in France. Our French version is made of raw cow's milk and matured for at least 5 months in respect of the French cheese tradition. It is during this long ripening period that the flavor and excellent melting qualities develop. Raclette has a semi-soft interior dotted with small holes and a rosy inedible rind. Melted, it tastes creamy and fruity. This French gourmet cheese is a little more aromatic than its pasteurized Swiss cousin.
It is used to make a dish, which also goes by the name 'raclette', or served with boiled potatoes, pickles, and cured meats. The accent i... |
Grayson
 From: $11.62 Grayson is a soft, finely textured cheese with a orange-brown rind, a golden semi-soft paste, a pungent aroma and a rich, beefy taste with nutty overtones. Virginia's Feete family says it is reminiscent of an Italian Taleggio or a French Livarot. Grayson is made with raw milk of Jersey cows and aged longer than their Italian and French counterparts, around 60 days; no pesticides or herbicides are used in the fields where the cows are pastured.
This washed-rind gourmet cheese is made in the mountains of southwestern Virginia at the Meadow Creek Dairy; a small family farm dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Grayson is only produced when the cows are on natural pasture from April through Oct... |
Gruyere
 From: $9.93 The milk for the Swiss gourmet cheese Gruyère is brought to the dairy by the producers, and every delivery is strictly controlled and analyzed. The milk will undergo no thermic treatment until its transformation into cheese. This guarantees the preservation of the flora that gives Gruyère AOC its typical taste.
The cheese maker adds the cultures that will mature the milk. Once maturation is achieved, the cheese maker adds the rennet. In the space of 3 or 4 minutes, the contents of the vat totally changes in appearance. A warm odor fills the dairy.
After about three months, the Gruyère cheese wheels are transported to a 'finishing house' to complete their maturation (several more months are... |
Idiazabal
 Your Price: $14.26 Idiazabal is originally produced high in the Pyrenees above Pamplona. This rustic Spanish gourmet sheep's milk cheese was often smoked in the rafters of the shepherds' huts. Today, it is made all over the Basque country in both factory and farmstead, from unpasteurized milk.
Idiazabal is produced in small drum shapes in varying sizes. The rind of this gourmet cheese is pale yellow in color and quite hard. The paste is creamy white and fairly compact with a few small holes. Smoked cheeses achieve a wonderful golden-brown color and dark ivory paste during its 5 months maturation.
This smoked gourmet cheese has a delicately smoky, fudge-like aroma and flavor but with the farmyard like tang co... |