Wait! What? Really? Wow!!!
We’re blown away to be named one of the top 50 Cheesemakers in the United States of America according to Food & Wine Magazine! What a wonderful surprise to receive the news as 2021 wrapped up. We’re so excited to be included on the list with some of our friends, mentors, and heroes in the artisan cheese community like fellow Oregonians Rogue Creamery, Washington State cheesemakers Cascadia Creamery, Beechers, Cowgirl Creamery in California, and Goat Lady Dairy in North Carolina.
Here’s a link to the article to see the full list:
The Best Cheese in America: These Are the Top 50 U.S. Cheesemakers
American cheese has come a long way.
By David Landsel
December 14, 2021
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Briar Rose Creamery (Oregon)
From creamy Butterbloom to fragrant washed-rind Maia, all the cheeses at this can-do operation in the Willamette Valley are winners in our eyes, but it's the wintertime, when the pungent, brine-rubbed Phoebe makes her appearance, all dolled up in French spruce bark, that things get really exciting. Organic Ayrshire milk goes into a semi-soft cheese that smells a lot like a Northwest pine forest during the magical wet season—earthy, fragrant, ever so slightly intoxicating.
Cheese board with Maia. Photo by Christine Hyatt.
Maia Photo by S. Marcus
Maia. Photo by Christine Hyatt