River’s Edge Sunset Bay Sunset Bay is a soft-ripened goat’s milk cheese that has a thin layer of pimenton (Spanish smoked paprika) through its center and delicate dusting of vegetable ash on its rind. The bright lemony notes of the fresh goat’s milk are complimented by the savory, smokey pimenton. Sunset Bay is made by…
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Bark-Wrapped Beauties/Sip and Shop/Holiday Hours/Raclette Night
Holiday Hours: We will be OPEN on New Year’s Eve from 11-6, CLOSED New Year’s Day, Tuesday, January 1st 2019 Wishing You a Safe and Happy New Year from Everyone at Cheese Bar and Chizu! New Year’s Cheese & Bubbles New Year’s Eve is just a few days away and we’ve got all your cheese and bubbly…
Bark-Wrapped Beauties/Sip and Shop/Holiday Hours/Raclette Night
Holiday Hours: We will be OPEN on Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24th from 10-4. We will be CLOSED Christmas Day, Tuesday December 25th. Bark-Wrapped Beauties The tradition of wrapping small rounds of cheese in spruce bark originates in the alpine region of France and Switzerland. The most well known cheese made using this technique is Vacherin Mont d’Or…
Ciel de Chevre/Apple Outlaw CiderTasting/Black Walnut Boards/Raclette Night
La Fermière de Méan is dairy cooperative located in southeastern Belgium. Established in 1986, the cooperative originally only produced cow and goat’s milk. However, in 1990 the dairy began producing artisan raw milk cheeses as well. The cooperative is dedicated to raising their animals humanely and to providing consumers with high quality dairy products that are…
Montgomery’s Cheddar/Thanksgiving Wine Tasting/Raclette Night
Montgomery’s Cheddar After a long absence, we’ve just received a new wheel of Montogmery’s Cheddar from Neal’s Yard Dairy! This cheese is a large format (it weighs about approimately 52 pounds), clothbound, raw cow’s milk cheddar. It is made from the milk of 140 Friesian cows. The Montgomery family has been making this cheese since 1911…
Red Rock Cheddar Blue/Scott Paul Wine Tasting/Raclette Night
October is American Cheese Month! Established by the American Cheese Society, this month is a celebration of the quality and diversity of American artisan cheese. In celebration we will be highlight a different American cheese each week! This week we would like to tell you about Red Rock from Roelli Cheese Haus. Chris Roelli…
Beaufort d’Ete/ Wines Tasting
Beaufort d’Ete Cheese is Back We are excited to have Beaufort d’été back in the case! Beaufort is a raw milk alpine cheese made in the Haute-Savoie region of France. The Beaufort that we have in is a summer milk Beaufort, or d’été, meaning that it is made exclusively from the milk of cows that have…
Evalon/Fall Wines Tasting
Evalon La Clare Family Creamery is a family owned and operated creamery located in Malone, Wisconsin. Larry and Clara Hedreich purchased the farm as a hobby in 1978. Today, the couple and their five children all work for the family creamery. La Clare makes cheeses from the milk of their 800 goat’s as well as from…
Monte Enebro/Trisaetum Winery Tasting
Monte Enebro Monte Enebro is made by Paloma Baez in Avila, Spain. Paloma learned to make Monte Enebro from her father, Rafael, the creator of this lovely cheese. This goat’s milk cheese defies boundaries, being both a soft-ripened cheese as well as a blue. Rather than piercing this cheese in order to create blue veins,…
Robiola Roccaverano DOP/La Randonee Wine Tasting
Robiola Roccaverano DOP Robiola di Roccaverano D.O.P. is a lovely soft-ripened cheese for all the goat lovers out there. This cheese is made in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, in and around the town of Roccaverano. This particular robiola is the only one to have a PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) which requires the…
Sennerkäse with Fenugreek/Hot Weather Wine Tasting
We have a new cheese in the case this week! Sennerkäse with Fenugreek is a German cheese made at Obere Mühle, a cooperative dairy in Allgau, Germany. This cheese is made by one of our favorite producers, Arturo Chiraboga, who also makes the decadent Chiriboga Blue. This raw cow’s milk cheese has a tacky orange…
Paski Sir/Summer Budget Wine Tasting
Paski Sir If you’re looking for a cheese to snack on while watching the World Cup this weekend, we might suggest Croatia’s Paski Sir! Paski Sir is a lovely sheep’s milk cheese made exclusively on Croatia’s tiny Pag Island. This cheese is made from the milk of the indigenous sheep, Paska Ovca, who graze on…