One Year of Cheese: Meet The Makers Quarterly Cheese Subscription

We've curated a quarterly cheese subscription to delight you all year long with unique and fascinating American artisan cheeses. Each quarter, we'll highlight a different cheesemaker, complete with digital literature on tasting, serving, pairing, and storing your cheeses. You'll also receive a Zoom link with each shipment inviting you to a subscriber-only Meet the Cheesemaker event. It's our mission is to educate while curating delicious cheeses that can last for weeks in your Grotto. You'll always have the perfect selections on hand 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 1.5 to 2 pounds total, depending on the price of the cheese featured) per shipment. The cheeses shipped are selected at optimal ripeness and best enjoyed within 2 to 3 weeks of delivery.

• One 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. A recording will be emailed if you are not able to attend the live event.

Widmer’s Cheese Cellars settled in the heart of one of the richest cheese making areas in America more than a century ago. Embracing the manufacturing techniques which have been handed down through generations of European and Wisconsin cheese makers, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars carefully produces some of the finest Brick, Butterkäse, Cheddar and Colby cheeses in the world.

John & Anne Reese began handcrafting award-winning artisan cheeses in the summer of 2017 in Granville, Ohio. Their facility sits on 18 acres of untouched land land and hosts a creamery, two custom cheese caves, and a versatile commercial kitchen for their handmade preserves.

We are still finalizing this cheesemaker, but we can guarantee it'll be amazing!

We are still finalizing this cheesemaker, but we can guarantee it'll be amazing!

June's box features four different artisan cheeses from Widmer's Cheese Cellars in Theresa, Wisconsin: their heritage Colby inspired by the 1885 Wisconsin original, their traditional surface-ripened Brick cheese whose recipe has Swiss origins, their Matterhorn Alpine Cheddar that fuses the best of alpine and cheddar cultures into one flavorful bite, and their 10 Year Aged Cheddar complete with an incredibly rich and sharp flavor. Widmer's Cheese Cellars has been home to three generations of Widmer cheesemakers. Joe Widmer makes cheese in the factory his grandfather purchased 98 years ago, and he continues to follow his grandfather’s golden rule: Take no shortcuts and accept nothing less than excellence. Joe has gone through the Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker® program twice and holds certifications for two Wisconsin originals—Brick and Colby cheeses.

The live Zoom date and time is TBD. A Zoom link invitation will be emailed post-purchase and a recording will be emailed to everyone post-event.

Place your order by Sunday, May 31st.  The June box will ship Tuesday, June 2nd.

*A Zoom invitation link will be emailed post-purchase and a recording will be emailed to everyone in case you aren't able to make the live event.

Photo Courtesy of Wisconsin Cheese

Widmer's Cheese Cellars has been home to three generations of Widmer cheesemakers.Joe Widmer makes cheese in the factory his grandfather purchased 98 years ago, and he continues to follow his grandfather’s golden rule: Take no shortcuts and accept nothing less than excellence. Joe has gone through the Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker® program twice and holds certifications for two Wisconsin originals—Brick and Colby cheeses.

• The Meet the Makers Subscription ships on a fixed schedule (please see the Shipping Tab below).

• After signup, you or the recipient can email us at info@cheesegrotto.com for assistance modifying your delivery week, and we'll respond within 3 business days.

• You will be billed once for the total subscription package. At the end of the pre-paid period of one year, you will receive an email asking if you would like to extend your subscription.

• The quarterly subscription will be processed on a fixed schedule, on the Sunday prior to the week of shipping your order. 

• This is a one-time purchase that will automatically renew after the prepaid period. You will be notified via email and will have the opportunity to cancel before the autorenew happens.

• Cancellations to a prepaid subscription must be made 2 business days before the first box on the prepaid plan ships. We offer prepaid subscriptions as a way to prepay & save, and so we do not offer partial cancellations or refunds once we have started to prepare your order. We do offer replacements for any damaged items in transit, of course!

• Express Shipping is included in the listed price!

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

1. June 2nd, 2026

2. November 17th, 2026

3. December 15th, 2026

4. March 9th, 2027

• Please visit our shipping policy page for additional questions.

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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 community 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 industrial food system, committing to these core values requires long hours of hard work and strict attention to detail.

Our quarterly subscription directly supports American artisan cheesemakers and the strengthening and diversification of our food system.