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.

Owned and operated by the Cook family, Carr Valley Cheese Company is over one-hundred years old. Nestled amongst the rolling hills and lush pastures of central Wisconsin, they remain one of Wisconsin's traditional cheese plants, famous for making cheese the old-fashioned way!

Carr Valley Cheese has won numerous awards over the years and continues to offer delicious and unique Wisconsin Cheeses.

When Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company was founded in 2000, they already had the most important part. Their dairy farm has always been known for making the freshest, highest quality milk. Their family’s herd of Holsteins were all raised from birth right on the property, giving them complete quality control from start to finish. Their first creamery was, and still is, right next to the milking parlor. In 2018, to fulfill the increasing demand for our award-winning products, they proudly opened a second production facility in the nearby town of Petaluma.

Today Original Blue, their raw milk cheese, continues to be made on the farm in Point Reyes, exclusively from the milk of our own Holsteins. Their pasteurized cheeses, Toma, Bay Blue, Gouda and Quinta, are handcrafted in Petaluma, where they source milk from CA dairies who share in their sustainable farming philosophies and match their highest standards for milk quality.

After dairying conventionally for 15 years, Al and Desiree Wehner switched their farming method to an intensive grazing management farming style in 1993. In less than a year, they knew that they had discovered a better way to farm where “cows could be cows” and do what nature intended - eat grass! After a couple of years of Desiree making cheese out of their family kitchen, Sweet Grass Dairy was born in 2000. It was her goal to highlight the delicious, grass-based milk that their cows were producing through a range of handcrafted cheeses. They quickly realized that she needed help, so they invited their daughter, Jessica, and son-in-law, Jeremy Little, to join the family creamery. Al and Desiree believe in giving opportunities, so they were thrilled when Jeremy and Jessica wanted to purchase the cheesemaking part of the business in 2005. The Littles have continued to grow Sweet Grass Dairy over the years by expanding the distribution of their cheeses nationally and opening a restaurant in downtown Thomasville. Jeremy and Jessica have raised 4 boys, received over 30 national and international awards for their cheeses, and remained loyal to the vision of cultivating an inspired American food culture. They have done this by handcrafting the most flavorful and high quality cheeses possible from the milk of healthy, barn-free cows grazing on grass grown year round under the Georgia sun.

Capriole Goat Cheese is an artisan goat cheese producer in Greenville, Indiana. Founded in 1988, Capriole is one of the oldest and most award-winning goat cheese producers in the United States.

Owned and operated by the Cook family, Carr Valley Cheese Company is over one-hundred years old. Nestled amongst the rolling hills and lush pastures of central Wisconsin, they remain one of Wisconsin's traditional cheese plants, famous for making cheese the old-fashioned way!

Carr Valley Cheese has won numerous awards over the years and continues to offer delicious and unique Wisconsin Cheeses. Certified Master Cheesemaker Sid Cook has won more top national and international awards than any other cheesemaker in North America.

We'll be featuring four of their Master Cheesemaker certified cheeses that have been donned with many awards. These include Gran Canaria (a sheep, goat and cow milk cheese, aged longer–at least 2 years and cured with olive oil), Caved Aged Marisa (A full sheep milk cheese with a natural rind which is also one of their most awarded), Mobay (A Wisconsin take on the famous French cheese, Morbier, where a line of ash separates a layer of sheep milk cheese and goat milk cheese), and their Reserve Gouda from 2019.

Order By Thursday, July 11th, 2024

The live Zoom session is scheduled for Thursday, July 18th at 6pmEST. We will send the Zoom invite post-purchase.

Your July cheese kit will ship July 15th, and we'll email you an invitation to Meet the Cheesemaker live on Zoom. A recording will be emailed for those who cannot attend.

Owned and operated by the Cook family, Carr Valley Cheese Company is over one-hundred years old. Nestled amongst the rolling hills and lush pastures of central Wisconsin, they remain one of Wisconsin's traditional cheese plants, famous for making cheese the old-fashioned way!

Carr Valley Cheese has won numerous awards over the years and continues to offer delicious and unique Wisconsin Cheeses.

Meet the cheesemaker on Zoom on Thursday, July 18th at 6pmEST! 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. July 15th, 2024

2. November 18th, 2024

3. December 16th, 2024

4. March 10th, 2025

• Please visit our shipping policy page for additional questions.

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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.