Point Reyes Toma
Beehive Promontory
Manchego
Rare Cheese Club Selections - 2026
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Featured Cheeses - January 2026
- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 90 days
Point Reyes Toma is all natural and made with cow milk, as well as being gluten-free
and made with microbial (vegetarian) rennet. This semi-firm cheese is creamy with
buttery flavor with a grassy tang finish making it the perfect cheese to go with
just about anything. Toma also means "cheese made by the farmer himself" in Italian
and that’s fitting as it’s made by a family-run dairy farm and creamery in Marin
County...
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 8 months
This 1st Place winner in 2011 at the American Cheese Society is known for its
buttery, full-bodied, semi-firm texture and snappy, citrus-like fruity notes. As the
patriarch of Utah's Beehive Cheese Company's family of cheeses, Promontory is
equally great on its own on a cheese board with some dates and honey, or with
anything you would pair a cheddar-style cheese with, like a Panini or grated on a
salad..
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- Country: Spain
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Sheep
- Cheese Age: 6 months
Manchego has a distinctive flavor and an equally distinctive look. It can be
recognized by a unique, zigzag or crosshatch pattern in its black-gray or
buff-colored rind. (It is created by the rippled surface of the press used to make
it. The rind itself is inedible. Inside, you’ll discover an ivory-colored interior
and several small holes. Most Manchego fans are pleasantly surprised at their first
taste of this hard cheese: Rich, full and slightly salty at the finish. Even its
aroma has been described as special, suggesting lanolin and roast lamb...
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Featured Cheeses - February 2026
- Country: Canada
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 3+ years
Old Québec Vintage Cheddar has a firm, ivory-colored paste that is crumbly with
salt-like crystals. It’s all at once buttery and sweet with notes of tangy fruit and
creamy caramel. It is robust and deliciously tangy. Suggested beverage pairings
include stout beers, bold red wines like Cabernet Sauvignon and Rioja (Tempranillo),
or a higher-acid white like Sauvignon Blanc. Old Québec will enhance your fruit,
nut, cheese, and charcuterie boards.
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- Country: Beglium
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-soft
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 5-7 weeks
Visually, Drunk Monk is pale ivory in color. On the palate, Drunk Monk is semisoft,
silky, and sweet like freshly churned butter or heavy cream, but with brioche-like
yeasty notes from the Belgian blonde ale wash. The Cascade hops influence takes a
backseat to the sweet creaminess of the cheese, adding an appealing bitterness on
the finish, especially closer to the rind.
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- Country: France
- Cheese Texture / Type: Soft; Bloomy Rind
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 1-2 months
Délice de Bourgogne is the name of a trademarked cheese from the Burgundy region of
France, created in 1975 by Jean Lincet and his fifth-generation, family-operated
cheesemaking company, Fromagerie Lincet, originally founded in 1895 and based in the
towns of Saligny, Vaudes, and Brochon, the latter of which shares a home with the
winemaking village of Gevrey-Chambertin along the Route des Grands Crus in the Côte
de Nuits. The milk for the Lincet family of cheeses is gathered daily from 61
farmers with whom Fromagerie Lancet has worked for over 50 years.
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Featured Cheeses - March 2026
- Country: Netherlands
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Sheep
- Cheese Age: 12 months
Ewephoria is a Dutch gouda-style cheese made from pasteurized sheep’s milk instead
of cow’s milk, as well as vegetable rennet cultures, and then aged 12 months.
CheeseLand, a Seattle-based importer of Dutch cheeses, worked with a small farm to
create Ewephoria in 2004. The sheep graze on salty, green, island pastures near a
nature preserve in the northern Friesland region of The Netherlands bordering the
sea, where they are treated like members of the family.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-soft; Blue
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 3-4 months
Cheesemaker Jeff Jirik describes his top-shelf blue as complex, complicated yet
delightfully intimate. The paste and mouthfeel are super creamy. This cheese has a
distinctive spicy piquant sharpness and tanginess and the presentation is nothing
short of gorgeous with its abundant bluing. Overall, it’s a very approachable blue
and not too overwhelming. St. Pete’s Select Blue will pair well with strong ales
like AleSmith’s Private Stock Ale or Duschutes Jubelale. It would also work well
with your favorite tawny port.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 9-12 months
Mariana is a firm to semi-firm cow’s milk cheese with a smooth, supple texture and a
pale golden interior. On the nose, it offers aromas of toasted grain, cultured
butter, and gentle nuttiness. The palate opens with sweet cream and warm milk
flavors before developing layers of roasted hazelnut, browned butter, and subtle
savory notes reminiscent of alpine herbs and hay. As it ages, the finish becomes
more complex and lingering, with a mild...
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Featured Cheeses - April 2026
- Country: Switzerland
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 4-6 months
Kaltbach Le Crémeux is a fairly new cheese, arriving in the United States in early
2017. It is a washed-rind cheese made at the Emmi facility in Emmen, then cave aged
in Kaltbach Cave, a veritable labyrinth of 22 million-year-old natural sandstone
located near Lucerne in the Alpine Valley of Switzerland. It is named after the
river that runs through the cave, which keeps the humidity at 96%, a crucial
component in the development of the cheese’s texture.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-soft
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 2-3 months
Sweet Grass Dairy produces six core cheeses and we are fortunate to offer the
Thomasville Tomme as one of this month’s selections. Their version of a French
Pyrenées Mountains farmhouse Tomme is a semi-soft, grass-based, raw cows’ milk
cheese that is aged for 60 to 90 days. Reflective of its southern Georgia terroir,
this cheese shows subtle earthy and grassy notes, as well as a creamy texture on the
palate.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-soft; Fresh
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 2 weeks
Tulip Tree’s Nettle, a 2016 American Cheese Society Winner, is a delicate, crumbly,
and bovre-style fresh cheese similar in style to a chèvre but made with pasteurized
cows’ milk using microbial rennet that is vegetarian-friendly. The cheese is covered
in fresh mint, sage, and nettle leaves, which makes for a savory, yet clean, bright,
and lactic flavor profile. It is an ideal cheese to bring along on a picnic because
it is so versatile.
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Featured Cheeses - May 2026
- Country: Spain
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Goat
- Cheese Age: 6-8 months
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 six 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. It will pair well with
sherry or dry red wines.
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- Country: Spain
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm; Mixed Milk
- Milk Type: Cow, Goat
- Cheese Age: 2-3 months
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.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Soft; Bloomy Rind
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 4-14 weeks
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.
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Featured Cheeses - June 2026
- Country: Spain
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Goat
- Cheese Age: 2 months
Members of the Aguilar family, the affineurs of the award-winning Montealva, have
been making cheese for over 50 years with milk from a herd of Payoya goats, a rare
breed native only to the Sierra de Cádiz mountains, and hearty enough to thrive in
this challenging environment. The goats graze in limestone-rich mountain pastures,
whose terroir reveals itself in the bright, grassy, and herbal notes of this dreamy,
semi-firm, pasteurized cheese.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 6-9 months
Grafton’s flagship Clothbound Cheddar is a sharp, firm and flaky, yet creamy cheese
made in the centuries-old British and pre-industrialized United States traditions,
which means it is wrapped in cheesecloth, then cave-aged for six to nine months,
yielding more robust and layered flavors than modern, plastic-aged cheeses. On the
nose, it shows notes of butter, citrus, and an aroma resembling the cave in which it
was aged. Its biscuit-crumbly and buttery mouthfeel is replete with savory umami
flavors, nuttiness, and a hint of sweetness.
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- Country: Germany
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-soft
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 6 months
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.
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Featured Cheeses - July 2026
- Country: Switzerland
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 6 months
Combremont Fromagerie, founded in 1851 in Switzerland’s Broye region, has been led
by cheesemaker Michael Hanke since 2016. Raised in a cheesemaking family and trained
across five countries, Hanke sources milk from nearby farms and combines tradition
with innovation. His Gruyère AOP earned a Silver Medal at the 2022 World Cheese
Awards. Aged six months, it is creamy and buttery with floral, herbal, nutty, and
vanilla notes, pairing beautifully with Riesling, Pinot Noir, Champagne, cider, and
Bock beer.
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- Country: Italy
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 6-9 months
Ubriaco del Piave is a semi-firm, Italian-style, latteria cheese from farmers in the
Piave region of Veneto, Italy. It is made from pasteurized cow’s milk – from two
milkings. The most striking initial aspect of this cheese is, of course, the deep
and vibrant violet color of the rind and its remnants of grape leaves and seeds.
Cheesemaker Sergio Moro bathes the Ubriaco del Piave for 40 hours in a proprietary
mix of red wines and grape must, including the Veneto’s traditional Refosco wine, as
well as other seasonal varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Clinton, then
ages the cheese for four to six months.
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- Country: Spain
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Sheep
- Cheese Age: 3+ months
This Spanish selection, first imported to the United States in 2004, has a unique
story and inspiration: the Guirra breed of sheep. Valencian cheesemaker, Enrique,
created this cheese to preserve this breed, which had become nearly extinct by 1990.
With his cheesemaking, he has grown the herd to 500 sheep. The cheese’s preparation
and presentation are distinctive: it is wrapped in cheesecloth, then the curds are
drained by tying together the ends of the cloth, which causes the cheese to resemble
a servilleta (napkin) when unwrapped.
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Featured Cheeses - August 2026
- Country: France
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Goat
- Cheese Age: 3 months
- Milk Treatment: Pasteurized
Produced in France's Basque Country, Onetik Tomme Pur Chevre is a firm goat's milk
cheese aged for three months. Its smooth, creamy texture and delicate notes of fresh
herbs, toasted nuts, and sweet goat's milk create a beautifully balanced cheese that
is equally suited for entertaining or everyday enjoyment.
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- Country: The Netherlands
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Sheep
- Cheese Age: 12 months
- Milk Treatment: Pasteurized
Made in the Netherlands from rich sheep's milk and aged for twelve months, Ewephoria
is a firm Gouda with a luxuriously creamy texture, sweet caramel notes, toasted
nuts, and delicate butterscotch flavors. Tiny protein crystals add a satisfying
crunch, making this an unforgettable Dutch specialty cheese.
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- Country: USA
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 12 months
- Milk Treatment: Pasteurized
A celebrated American artisan cheddar crafted from premium Vermont cow's milk and
aged for twelve months using traditional clothbound methods. Its firm, crumbly
texture reveals rich notes of browned butter, toasted nuts, caramel, and savory
umami, delivering exceptional depth and complexity in every bite.
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Featured Cheeses - September 2026
- Country: The Netherlands
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 36 months
Visually, this cheese is a deep golden-orange color, a warm amber hue. The paste is
firm and crumbly with loads of crunchy protein crystals, or as we like to call them,
delicious bursts of concentrated flavor. Yet once the Artikaas is in your mouth, it
becomes luscious and creamy, a melt-in-your-mouth treat. The Artikaas shows
decadent, rich flavors of butterscotch, browned butter, caramel, roasted nuts, and
whiskey.
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- Country: Spain
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Goat
- Cheese Age: 6 months
Naked Goat® offers a firm yet creamy texture with a mild goat’s-milk tang and
flavors of sweet cream, toasted nuts, butter, and gentle earthiness. Six months of
aging gives the cheese added depth and concentration while preserving its
characteristically sweet, approachable finish. Serve it with Marcona almonds, honey,
quince paste, fig preserves, olives, or crusty bread. It also melts beautifully over
roasted vegetables or into warm sandwiches.
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- Country: Switzerland
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 6 months
Appenzeller® Black Label is sharp, robust, and intensely aromatic, with a firm
texture and a beautifully balanced savory character. Its herbal brine contributes
distinctive spicy and herbaceous nuances, while extended aging brings concentrated
dairy richness and a pleasantly tart, lingering finish. Serve it with crusty bread,
apples, pears, roasted potatoes, cured meats, or cornichons, or melt it into fondue,
gratins, and hearty sandwiches.
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Featured Cheeses - October 2026
- Country: Germany
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 12 months
Aged for around 12 months, Mimolette is a striking French cheese made from
pasteurized cow’s milk, with a firm, brittle texture and its signature vibrant
orange color. Its concentrated flavor combines savory, nutty notes with hints of
butterscotch and a delicate saltiness that becomes more pronounced with age.
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- Country: Netherlands
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 60 days
Aged for 60 days, Artikaas Hay There is a farmstead raw-milk Gouda infused with
Italian black summer truffles, creating a rich and distinctive cheese with a supple
texture. Creamy and savory, it combines youthful Gouda flavors with woodsy aromas,
earthy mushroom notes, and a delicious depth of umami.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-firm; Washed Rind
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 5 months
CAMBOZOLA® Black Label is a luxurious German triple-cream blue cheese, cold-aged to
develop a velvety texture, distinctive blue veining, and rich, buttery character.
Extended maturation brings out a more pronounced blue flavor with savory depth,
refined aromas, and subtle sweet notes...
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Featured Cheeses - November 2026
- Country: France
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-hard
- Milk Type: Sheep
- Cheese Age: 6 months
Onetik Ossau-Iraty offers flavors of toasted hazelnuts, sweet cream, caramel, and
gentle earthiness, with a smooth, lingering finish. Traditionally, Basque
sheep’s-milk cheeses are particularly delicious with black cherry preserves. Also
try figs, pears, walnuts, honey, charcuterie, or crusty bread. Pair it with Madiran,
Bordeaux, Pinot Noir, dry cider, Saison, or a malty amber ale.
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- Country: France
- Cheese Texture / Type: Semi-soft
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: Minimum 45 days
Morbier is creamy, earthy, milky, and gently savory, with subtle mushroom, fruit,
and cellar-like nuances becoming more noticeable as it matures. Serve it with
roasted potatoes, cornichons, cured meats, apples, pears, mushrooms, or rustic
bread. Its excellent melting properties also make it delicious in gratins and
sandwiches. Pair with Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Jura white wine, Saison, farmhouse
ale, or a crisp hard cider.
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- Country: United States
- Cheese Texture / Type: Blue; Semi-soft
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 90 days
Smokey Blue® combines creamy blue cheese, roasted nuts, vanilla-like sweetness,
fruit, gentle smoke, and savory depth. Serve with pears, figs, toasted hazelnuts,
honey, bacon, dark chocolate, grilled steak, or crusty bread. It is also excellent
crumbled over salads or melted onto burgers. Pair with Port, Syrah, Zinfandel,
stout, porter, brown ale, or a rich hard cider.
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Featured Cheeses - December 2026
- Country: Netherlands
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Goat
- Cheese Age: 6-9 months
If you like goat cheeses… and you like gouda, this may become your new favorite
all-time cheese! No doubt the first thing you'll notice about this cheese is its
striking bone-white rind and paste, a hallmark of a goat cheese. The flavor is
intense, complex, and super savory: sweet buttery notes, big tanginess, sweet grass
and hay earthy notes, and hints of nuts. In short, a huge, sweet, umami bomb. Its
mouthfeel is luxurious, silky and creamy. You could say it’s got it all: good looks,
a big assertive, outstanding flavor profile, and super creamy texture.
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- Country: Switzerland
- Cheese Texture / Type: Firm
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 8-10 months
Expect a firm Alpine cheese with nutty, buttery, savory, and gently sweet flavors,
accompanied by deeper toasted and earthy nuances from maturation. Serve with apples,
pears, dried fruit, walnuts, crusty rye bread, potatoes, or cured meats. It can also
be shaved or melted into warm dishes. Pair with dry Riesling, Pinot Noir, Swiss
white wine, Märzen, Bock, amber lager, or hard cider.
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- Country: England
- Cheese Texture / Type: Blue; Semi-soft
- Milk Type: Cow
- Cheese Age: 2 months
Cropwell Bishop Blue Stilton is rich, buttery, creamy, tangy, and savory, with blue
veining contributing peppery spice, mushroom, and earthy cellar notes. Serve with
pears, apples, figs, walnuts, celery, fruitcake, chutney, or crusty bread. The
classic beverage companion is Port, whose sweetness beautifully balances Stilton’s
salt and blue intensity. It is also excellent with Madeira, dessert wine, stout,
porter, barleywine, or a rich brown ale.
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Experience International Variety
You might receive a Gaperon, originating in France during the 14th Century, an
authentic Lancashire by Ruth Kirkham, and an Italian Taleggio matured in the
caves of Valsassina…all in one shipment!
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