The perfect cheese to get you into fall weather, come get your dose of Mimolette! While the historical origin of Mimolette might still be under debate, its roots in Dutch Edam are undisputed. From the Normandy region, Mimolette stands out as a hard, aged cheese in a region mainly. Known for its distinctive cannonball shape…
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Great Value Cheeses! / Chocolate Tasting Next Wednesday
Now’s the time of year for those last summer picnics and packing lunchboxes with great snacks. Look no further than Cheese Bar for all your provisions, from salamis and meats to Ken’s Artisan Baguettes. Below we have compiled a list of our best “bang for your buck” cheeses, come in soon to get your fix!…
New Arrival Neal’s Yard Ogleshield /Hot Weather Wine Tasting/Burrata & House Stretched Mozzarella
New Arrival!! Neal’s Yard Ogleshield Our new arrival from Neal’s Yard Dairy is a unique result of opportunity and collaboration. Created by Jamie Montgomery of Montgomery Cheddar, the cheese was originally conceived to make use of Jersey cow’s milk that had at that point only been sold for drinking. Called Jersey Shield, the wheels…
Beer Washed Cheeses /Thursday Wine Tasting/Burrata & House Stretched Mozzarella
Beer Washed Cheeses A subsection of washed rind cheese, beer washed cheeses originated in Belgium and Italy, with monks mopping cheeses with their beers. As with traditional salt brine, this method was initially used to protect the rind of soft cheeses. With the addition of beer to the brine, cheese makers noticed earthy, meaty flavors…
Adarré Reserve/Burrata & House Stretched Mozzarella
Adarré Reserve We are in love with a new cheese from French affineur, Rodolphe Le Meunier. Adarré Reserve is a tomme-style cheese made from a blend of pasteurized goat and sheep’s milk. It is made in the French Pyrenees and named for a neighboring mountain. The toothsome beauty has rustic natural rind and an ivory paste. It has a…
Cowgirl Creamery Hop Along/Sicilian Gulfi Winery Tasting/Burrata & House Stretched Mozzarella
Cowgirl Creamery Hop Along From the California creamery that brought you much loved cheeses such as Mt. Tam and Red Hawk, we have Hop Along! Made from organic cow’s milk, this semi-firm cheese is the newest addition to Cowgirl Creamery’s lineup and has just become available to us. Emulating classic Trappist cheeses, Hop Along is…
Black Label Alpha Tolman/ Sparkling Wine Tasting/Burrata & House Stretched Mozzarella
Black Label Alpha Tolman Black Label Alpha Tolman is back! The Cellars at Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont has created a series called the Black Label program. This program is dedicated to finding cheeses that are showing the highest expression of a their potential. Similar to different vintages of wine, each batch of cheese varies…
Foxglove/Fourth of July Hours/Burrata & House Stretched Mozzarella
Tulip Tree Creamery – Foxglove Tulip Tree Creamery was established in 2014 by Fons Smits and Laura Davenport. Smits, who is originally from the Netherlands, came to the United States as a dairy consultant and product developer. After spending over ten years helping others establish small dairy plants Smits teamed up with Davenport to begin…
British Cheddars/Wednesday Woodbox Cider Tasting/Thursday Italian Wine Tasting
Cheddars of Great Britain We are currently stocked up on British cheddars. Cheddar is not just a type of cheese but also the technique used to make this style of cheese. Originating in the southwestern corner of England, cheddaring is a process where curd is cut and stacked, repeatedly turned in order to remove whey….
Ferns’ Edge Mt.Thielsen/Summer Sippers Wine Tasting
Ferns’ Edge Dairy – Mt. Thielsen Ferns’ Edge Dairy is a farmstead creamery located in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, in Lowell, Oregon. The creamery was established in the 1970s by Shari Reyna and Fred Warner. Shari and Fred make their cheeses using the milk from their own herd, which rely on a grass…