Pleasant Ridge Reserve

Rennet: Animal

Milk: Raw milk from their herd of crossbreed cattle

Cheese: Abondance, Tarentaise and more!)

Related: Gruyere, Beaufort, Red Meck, Ascutney Mountain, Comte, Centovalli Ticino

Origin: Made in Dodgeville, WI by Uplands Cheese Co. Master CM: Mike Gingrich, now made by Andy.

Story: Uplands Cheese Company was founded in 1994 by two families in Southern Wisconsin. It started as simply a cooperative dairy, for the purpose of easing the burden on both families. Eventually they agreed that their milk was something special and they wanted to try their hand at cheese making. They decided on an old Beaufort recipe, and attempted their first batch of cheese. One of the cheeses from that batch ended up taking first in show at the ACS show in 2001, and launched them into the world of high profile American farmstead cheese. Since then, they repeated their victory again in 2005, and have continued to improve their basic recipe. The cheese is classic alpine style all the way. It tastes like nuts and clarified butter. The piquancy is very restrained, but the subtle funk from the repeated washings of the rind pervades the cheese, and gives it a depth of flavor all its own.

Pairings: Brown Beer, Sherry, Swiss Fendant, Alpine Whites.

1/4 LB 1/3 LB 1/2 LB 2/3 LB 3/4 LB 1 LB 2 LB 3 LB 4 LB 5 LB $23.00 per pound