Cheese

This cheese is naturally smoked with real oakwood chips using a cold smoke technique - no artificial ingredients, flavoring, or processing are used! It's creamy, smooth, mellow and lightly smoky, slices well, and melts beautifully. Ideal for BBQ Parties, melted on steaks or burgers. It's a perfect complement to meats and cold cuts, delicious with mustard.

Beverage Pairing:

Enjoy with a local dark beer or go Dutch and taste it with a Heinekin.

Infused with the robust flavor of whiskey, Kerrygold’s rich and creamy Aged Cheddar now has unique undertones of the smooth, woody, and nutty taste of pure Irish Whiskey. Entrenched in the history and traditions of Ireland, Cheddar and whiskey are now together in one spirited Irish grass-fed cow’s milk cheese.

This tasty combination is the perfect complement to your party’s gourmet cheese platter and is also a unique gift item.

Barber’s Farmhouse Vintage Cheddar One of the only cheddars in the World with PDO accreditation, Barber’s Farmhouse Vintage cheddar is aged for 18 months, forming a cheese that is Robust and powerfully rich with a firm to brittle body that retains a smooth and creamy texture.

This cheddar comes from the farm only 20 miles from the village of Cheddar!

BOLD GARLIC & CLASSIC CHEDDAR… VAMPIRES BEWARE!

This classic aged cheddar infused with a bold dose of garlic our Vampire Slayer Cheddar was the 2nd cheddar developed here at Face Rock and is currently one of our most popular cheddars. It’s definitely a must try for anyone who loves garlic. This award-winning cheddar is sure to keep vampires at bay!

FLAVOR PROFILE
Packed with loads of garlic in a base of classic aged cheddar this cheese packs a garlicy punch that takes center stage and cannot be ignored. If you can’t get enough garlic this cheddar is for you!

WHAT TO PAIR IT WITH

• Vampire Slayer is perfect on a cheese plate or melted into your favorite foods to enrich them with garlicy goodness!
• Salted nuts, toasted pumpkin seeds, sundried tomatoes, olives, herbed crispy crackers & crunchy artisan bread.
• Wine Pairing: Pick something with high acidity and medium to low tannins as the flavor can turn bitter or acrid when paired with garlic. Bright and citrusy flavors work best, avoid anything too sweet. Choose a Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, Viognier, Dry Gewürztraminer, Champagne, Syrah, Chianti, & Sangiovese.
• Beer Pairing: Choose light-bodied & wheat-based. Strong hops & carbonation add a refreshing cleanse to the palate such as Ales, Lagers, Pilsners, & Hefeweitzen.

AWARDS

• 1st place in the national cheese competition in North America (2013 ACS Awards)

Classic buttery Havarti with a hint of dill flavor.  Nothing too overwhelming

A perfect cheese to pair with a cracker and salami because of its subtle flavor.

Cahill’s Irish Porter is the original and definitive Irish Plain Porter Cheese. Each brown waxed truckle is individually handcrafted with plain Irish porter, producing a unique marbled effect throughout the cheese.

Perfect as an appetizer, Cahill’s Irish Porter can also form a unique and attractive centerpiece on an after-dinner cheese board.

Full-flavored with a chocolate-laced tang, Cahill’s Porter pairs well with a cold pint of Irish Stout or a full-bodied red wine.

A semi soft cheese, Butterkase has an excellent buttery and creamery texture for all tables. This rindless cheese is made from pasteurized cow's milk and makes an excellent melt in your mouth cheese!

Crumbly to touch, granular and round on the palate, rich and harmonious on the nose; this is what makes this timeless classic from the Swiss cheesemaking tradition an unmissable piece on every cheese lovers table.

From the Mifroma farm in Switzerland to your table, it takes 11 months to create this masterpiece classic.

Aged six months or more, Midnight Moon® is a blushing, ivory-colored goat cheese that’s nutty and brown buttery upfront with a long caramel finish. Similar to a Gouda, as Midnight Moon® ages, protein crystals form and lend a slight crunch to the otherwise dense and smooth cheese. Know someone who (gasp!) doesn’t like goat cheese?

Encourage them to dip their toes back in the water with Midnight Moon®, which has been known to convert even the staunchest of goat cheese critics.

Perfect Pairings

• Serve with fig jam and seeded crackers or bread
• Try melted between slices of rustic bread or as a decadent addition to macaroni and cheese
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Awards

• est of Class, World Championship Cheese Contest  2010, 2020
• Super Gold, World Cheese Awards   2015, 2018
• Gold, World Cheese Awards  2014
• Best New Product in Show, sofi Awards  2002

How to store

To optimize the quality of Midnight Moon, keep cheese cold (32°–44.6°F). To maintain original condition after cutting keep cheese wrapped tightly in plastic wrap to prevent drying.

Remove Midnight Moon from the refrigerator at least one hour before serving.

One of local Washington cheeses, Beecher's Flagship Cheddar provides a strong and rich flavor with every bite! Since it holds a strong richness, this cheese is perfect to pair with any charcuterie board.

Due to Holland’s fertile soil and lush green pastures, our cows produce unusually rich milk. Additional cream is then added to the milk for an extra rich cheese we call Double Cream.

Double Cream has a mild flavor. It’s sliceable, melts beautifully, and is the ideal choice for making creamy cheese sauces. It also makes for delicious omlets, tortillas, and potatoes. Melt some on a hot piece of apple pie for a special dessert!

A delicious blend of smooth Double Gloucester, onion and a sprinkling of fresh chives.

With generous flakes of chive and onion, Cotswold has a smooth texture, fresh aroma and lingering taste. It was one of the first blends launched by Clawson in the early 1970s and has remained a firm favorite.

It is fantastic served simply in a crusty baguette sandwich, and also makes a versatile cooking ingredient.

Perfect Pairings:

• Grate cheese on fluffy baked potatoes topped with smokey bacon, and fresh spring chives.
• Serve on a crusty baguette sandwich

Escape to the tropical islands of the Pacific with this double cream Gouda mixed with the coconut cream to create a mild tropical flavor with a luxurious velvety texture. 

Vlaskaas is one The Cheesemonger's Shop's Favorite cheeses! This 6 month matured cheese comes directly from Holland with a mild and smooth semi-hard texture. Perfect for pairing with any board.

An Italian hard, granular cheese that is produced from cow's milk and has aged 12–36 months.

Soft-Ripened Goat Milk Cheese from Humboldt County California

The Original American Original®. Conceived in a dream (yes, really!) by founder Mary Keehn, this masterpiece paved the way for soft-ripened goat cheese in America. Each handcrafted wheel features a distinctive ribbon of edible vegetable ash. You'll enjoy buttermilk and fresh cream, complemented with floral notes, herbaceous overtones, and a clean citrus finish. As Humboldt Fog matures, the creamline develops and the flavor intensifies.

Pairing:

• Drizzle with honey and serve with prosciutto, tart apple and Marcona almonds
• Crumble it over a fall or summer salad of greens with a vinaigrette
• Beer Pairing: IPAs, Porters, or Wheats, Pale Ales, or Stouts
• Wine Pairings: Demi-Sec Sparkling Wine, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Grigio, Rosé, Sweet Sheet, Zinfandel, Pinot Noir, or a Vouvray

Awards

• American Cheese Society  1998, 2002, 2005, 2019
• Best of California, California State Fair  2019
• Gold, World Cheese Awards   2014, 2018
• Gold, London International Cheese Competition  2004
• Best of Class, US Championship Cheese Contest   2017
• Best Cheese & Dairy Product, IFFCS (New York)  2002

Storage

To optimize the quality of Humboldt Fog, keep cheese cold (32°–40°F) and wrapped in waxed paper. Re-wrapping soft-ripened cheese in wax or parchment paper will allow the cheese to breathe as it continues to ripen. Removing from the refrigerator at least one hour before serving.

Adored by cheese lovers for over 25 years, Saint Agur is a French specialty breaking the mold by balancing blue cheese taste with a soft, creamy texture.

Saint Agur is a blue cheese everyone will love, with a fresh taste that balances creaminess with just a hint of tanginess. Coming from the volcanic hills of Auvergne, Saint Agur cheese is crumbly and soft, and is just as tempting on its own or with bread, making it a great way to finish off your cheeseboard.

This pasteurized process cheddar cheese is handcrafted from skilled cheese makers and contains no added powders or fillers, ensuring a natural, fresh taste. It has a semi-hard consistency that can be cut into cubes, chunks, or sliced thin for sandwiches. It also has great meltability, allowing you to create a variety of unique culinary creations for your menu. Whether it's used as a topping, garnish, or a standalone snack, this buffalo wing flavored cheddar cheese is sure to be a crowd pleaser.