Featured Cheese - May 2024

Point Reyes Original Blue is all natural and made with raw cow milk, as well as being Kosher-certified, gluten-free, and made with microbial (vegetarian) rennet. Even if you’re not a fan of blue cheeses, Point Reyes Original Blue’s sweet, buttery and fresh milk flavor will sure win you over. Being a versatile cheese, it’s great crumbled in salads, added to sauces and dips, and will be amazing on your cheese board.

Alisios is the name of the trade winds that blow over the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands off the Southern Coast of Morocco, where this lovely cheese selection is made. Its exotic location and ethereal name only add to the excitement and attractiveness of this semi-firm cheese aged two to three months, a magical mix of both pasteurized cow’s and Papoya goat’s milk covered with sweet pimentón – the source of Spanish smoked paprika.

Sennerkäse is a traditional, semi-soft, German, Alpine cheese made from raw, organic cow’s milk and aged for six months, but made with the intriguing addition of yellow Eastern Indian fenugreek seeds. The inclusion of fenugreek is a cultural homage that celebrates the blue fenugreek that appears in decorations throughout the state of Bavaria in southeastern Germany. On the nose and palate, this creamy, buttery cheese shows herbal and grassy notes, toasted grain flavors, and slight salinity, all of which are surprisingly complemented by the nuttiness and maple-syrup sweetness of chewy fenugreek seeds.

Because Redhead Creamery is a farmstead, the milk could not be any fresher, as the team has complete control over the cows' feed, the cows themselves, the milk they produce, and the resulting cheese. Little Lucy, a bloomy rind, brie-style cheese made from pasteurized cows' milk and aged for 4 to 14 weeks is named for founder Alise Sjostrom's young daughter, and offers a rich, buttery flavor profile, a clean mouthfeel, and a delicate sweetness.