Featured Cheese - May 2026

Jack ‘n Dill is ivory-white with a supple, semi-soft paste generously speckled with vibrant green dill. Its texture is smooth and slightly elastic, yielding easily to the knife and becoming luxuriously creamy as it warms to room temperature. On the nose, fresh dairy aromas mingle with bright herbal notes reminiscent of just-chopped garden dill.

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.

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.

The outside of the La Dama Sagrada wheels look very similar to Manchego wheels, prominently displaying their basket weave texture, but this cheese’s paste is more the color of ivory. When you first open the wheel you smell the aroma of sweet, cooked curds and caramel. Since this one is aged 6-8 months, the paste is drier, and you'll find it studded with flavor crystals. La Dama’s up-front sweetness is balanced nicely with a little bit of spiciness on the finish.