Cheese

This traditional farmhouse Cheddar is a real English treasure. It has a delicate smoky flavor and a lovely smooth texture. First created in 1965, this cheese has stood the test of time. The Cheesemonger's Shop #1 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.

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!

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

Crafted in Spain with subtle traces of fruits and nuts, this dry sheep's milk gouda offers a slight sweetness.

This is our main attraction for our local wineries as it makes for the ultimate wine pairing cheese.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Hailing from the Normandy region of northwestern France, Saint Andre is a triple crème cow's milk cheese with a high fat (75%) content that can be contributed to the addition of velvety heavy cream, making it dense, buttery and rich.

While the inside is ivory white in color, the rind is covered with a velvety and powdery bloomy mold to protect the creamy contents inside.

Saint Andre can best be described as an intense version of Brie.

This new creation from Holland is unlike any other sheep milk cheese you have ever tasted before. The milk comes from a small farm where the sheep are treated like family. Even though this cheese has been aged for one year, it has developed a stunning sweet and nutty flavor. This cheese tastes like candy! Experience it for dessert with red or green grapes.

Somerdale Red Dragon forms part of our ‘Heraldic’ range of specialty blended cheddars.

Creamy Cheddar is carefully blended with Wholegrain Mustard Seed and Ale providing a wonderful bite without being overpowering.

Red Dragon is a great addition to any cheese board and makes for a fantastic burger topping or grilled sandwich filling.

A natural drink pairing would be a Brown Ale or a full-bodied wine such as Shiraz or Zinfandel.

Imagine a drizzle of honey added to pure goat milk for a cashew-like nutty sweetness. This slightly sweet, full of flavor, yet not strong or salty cheese leaves you wanting more. Easy to slice, grate, or cube, wonderful in salads or as a snack with fruit.

World Cheese Champion - 2016.

At the Madison, Wisconsin, USA World Cheese Competition, in the category called: Flavored Semi-soft (semi-hard) Goat’s Milk Cheese, our Honey Bee Goat® cheese received the second prize and scored 99.5 points out of a 100.

It's definitely worth trying!

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. 

Old Amsterdam is a premium aged gouda cheese made from cow's milk. It has a firm texture, deep color, and smooth, rich and robust flavor. Gouda cheese in general is named after the town of Gouda, located in the South Holland province of The Netherlands.

Kroon smoked cheese is carefully smoked on beech wood to give it its unique mild flavor.

Perfect Pairings

• Fruit, nuts, and dark chocolate
• Sandwiches and burgers