Meet the Makers Quarterly Cheese Subscription

We've curated a quarterly cheese subscription, so you can continue to be delighted year-round with unique, and interesting American artisan cheeses. Each quarter, we will highlight a different American cheesemaker, complete with digital literature on tasting, serving, pairing and storing your cheeses. You will also receive a Zoom link along with each shipment inviting you to meet the Cheesemaker. Our mission is to educate as well as provide a selection of delicious cheeses that are perfectly stored in your Grotto for weeks and months so you will always have just the right selection to share and enjoy with good company.

The quarterly cheese selection fits best in a Grotto Classico or Grotto Fresco.

• Bloomy Rind, Washed Rind, Natural Rind, Waxed Rind, Blue, Smoked, Herbed, Spiced, Cow Cheese, Sheep Cheese, Goat Cheese

• The subscription includes two to four cheeses (approximately 1 to 2 pounds total, depending on the price of the cheese featured) per shipment. The cheeses shipped are selected at optimal ripeness best enjoyed within 2 to 3 weeks of delivery.

• One healthy serving of cheese is anywhere from 2 to 4 ounces, depending on your appetite. This package is great for 8 to 16 servings over weeks of enjoyment.

• With each quarterly shipment, you will receive digital literature with information on the cheeses, as well as an email invite to a live Zoom session with the Cheesemaker.

Chapel’s Country Creamery is an independent, family-owned and operated farm nestled on 45 acres just outside of Easton, Maryland. Their award-winning farmstead cheeses  begin with fresh raw milk from our herd of registered Jersey and Holstein cows. Using time-tested methods, they then turn that cream-laden milk into handcrafted artisanal cheeses, full of flavor and wholesome goodness.

Roth Cheese has more than 200 awards to prove their commitment to quality, including World Champion at the 2016 World Championship Cheese Contest for our Grand Cru®Surchoix. The secret to award-winning cheese? The best milk Wisconsin has to offer. Theirs comes directly from family dairy farmers down the road, always 100% rBST-free.

Cowgirl Creamery makes cheese with heart. In 1997, they started with a dream shared between two college friends and business partners, Sue Conley and Peggy Smith: To celebrate organic practices and spotlight the craftsmanship of local sustainable agriculture in Marin and Sonoma counties. Today, they’re carrying the torch of the food revolution that started in our backyard. Organic. Farm-to-Table. Delicious, award-winning cheese. It’s in their DNA. And it defines their famous creations, including the beloved triple cream Mt Tam.

At Cato Corner Farm they make raw farmstead cheese by hand from the delicious milk of their 45 Jersey cows.  The cows are humanely raised on a pasture-based diet without growth hormones or subtherapeutic antibiotics.  They feed a small amount of grain to complement the nutrition in the grass and hay.  For the past ten years, they have bred their cows for A2:A2 milk production, and the majority of their herd produces the A2 milk that many people find easier to digest.

Their cheeses are their own unique recipes, based on traditional cheese making styles and highlighting the flavor and terroir of their pastures and their farm. Cato Corner Farm is owned and managed by the mother-son team of Elizabeth MacAlister and Mark Gillman in Colchester, CT.

Chapel’s Country Creamery is an independent, family-owned and operated farm nestled on 45 acres just outside of Easton, Maryland. Our award-winning farmstead cheeses  begin with fresh raw milk from their herd of registered Jersey and Holstein cows. Using time-tested methods, they then turn that cream-laden milk into handcrafted artisanal cheeses, full of flavor and wholesome goodness. They invite you to taste the difference!

For March, we'll be featuring four cheeses of a spectrum of styles: Amber Cheddar, beer-washed semi-soft Cutlass, alpine-style Woodbine, and Bay Blue.

Order By Sunday, March 9th to receive the March 2025 Quarterly Subscription box. All orders ship Tuesday, March 11th.

The live Zoom session is TBD.

Your March cheese kit will ship March 11th, and we'll email you an invitation to Meet the Cheesemaker live on Zoom. A recording will be emailed for those who cannot attend.

Chapel’s Country Creamery is an independent, family-owned and operated farm nestled on 45 acres just outside of Easton, Maryland. Our award-winning farmstead cheeses  begin with fresh raw milk from their herd of registered Jersey and Holstein cows. Using time-tested methods, they then turn that cream-laden milk into handcrafted artisanal cheeses, full of flavor and wholesome goodness. They invite you to taste the difference!

Meet the Cheesemaker Zoom date and time TBD. An email recording will be sent for those who cannot attend!

• Once signed up, you can easily manage your subscription frequency and contents via our amazing portal. You can also always email us at info@cheesegrotto.com if you need help and we'll respond within 3 business days.

• This is a Recurring Subscription that will continue unless otherwise canceled.

• Your card will be charged the Thursday before the order is shipped.

• Option to pause, skip, or cancel any time.

• Your recurring shipping charge per order is based on your zip code location.

• Our Meet the Maker Subscription ships on a fixed yearly schedule.  This allows everyone to meet the cheesemaker at the same time on Zoom while enjoying their cheeses!

1. March 11th, 2025

2. July 15th, 2025

3. November 18th, 2025

4. December 15th, 2025

• Please visit our shipping policy page for additional questions.

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We got you! Download this gift card and share with the lucky gift recipient! The size of the card is 5.5 inches by 4.5 inches so it can be formatted on a full-sized printer paper, or can be formatted to print double-sided!

Artisan Cheese - According to the American Cheese Society, "artisan or artisanal implies that a cheese is produced primarily by hand, in small batches, with particular attention paid to the tradition of the cheesemaker’s art, and thus using as little mechanization as possible in the production of the cheese."

Over the past decade, the American Artisan cheese industry has been recognized internationally for its quality and integrity. Small to medium-scale artisan cheesemakers have a core set of values - high-quality milk makes incredible cheese, and high quality land and animal management makes for incredible milk. In our current industrial agriculture system, committing to these core values requires long hours of hard work and an acute attention to detail.

This subscription directly supports American Artisan Cheesemakers, and the continual diversification of our food system.