New Arrivals

Celebrate Christmas in cheesy style!

The full month calendar includes 25 individually wrapped items curated into 4 boxes available for shipping or local pickup in North Beach weekly on Thursdays beginning on December 1st. Each box will contain 7 different items that can all come together to form a themed cheese board (plus a few bonus goodies) and a note from me explaining the theme of the week. The boxes will include some of our favorite and very special cheeses, fresh baked breads, accompaniments, and swag. 

The 12 days of Christmas box includes 12 individually wrapped items curated into one epic box of cheesy presents. This can be shipped or arranged for local pickup in North Beach. Assemble your amazing cheese board with our favorite and most special cheeses, fresh baked bread, accompaniments, and swag. The 12 days of Cheesemas advent box is $250.

Judged “best cheese in the world” at the 2019/202 World Cheese Awards, Rogue River Blue is a true showstopper. Made from organic cow's milk during autumn then aged for 9 months and wrapped in pear liqueur soaked Syrah grape leaves. 

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged 9 months

What’s the Type?

• blue

Where in the world?

• Rogue Creamery in Central Point, Oregon

Celebrate and savor the winers of this year's American Cheese Society Judging Competition. Owner, Megan, will surprise you with a variety of cheeses that were winners this year. Each box is different and unique but always delicious.

a $55 box includes at least 1.25 lbs of cheese

a $75 box includes at least 2 lbs of cheese

a $150 box includes at least 4 lbs of cheese

incredibly sweet from the grass-fed milk while still having a savory finish from the natural and slightly washed rind. super rich and complex, salty with a long and fruity finish.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged about 1 month

What’s the Type?

• hard

Where in the world?

• Uplands Cheese in Dodgeville, Wisconsin

This perfectly balanced sweet and savory hard cheese has a beautifully granular yet firm texture and flavors of roasted almonds and thyme with a long and subtly sweet and herbaceous finish.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged 6 months

What’s the Type?

• hard

Where in the world?

• Chapel’s Country Creamery in Easton, Maryland

This luxurious ashed rind wheel is like full fat yogurt, butter-poached mushrooms, and almonds. It ages beautifully- changign from being firm and a bit chalky to delicious and oozing.

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged 2-9 weeks

What’s the Type?

• ashed rind

Where in the world?

• Boxcarr Handmade Cheese in Cedar Grove, North Carolina

This big, beefy, beer-laden washed rind has been washed regularly with beer during aging resulting in a flavors of cured meat, fresh cream, and a long lush finish

Considering the milk...

• pasteurized cow’s milk aged at least 60 days

What’s the Type?

• washed

Where in the world?

• Boxcarr Handmade Cheese in Cedar Grove, North Carolina

These gorgeous 10 oz wheels are dusted with a touch of smoked paprika imparting a delicate smokey flavor to the fudgy, dense paste. With notes of sweet cream, they get more buttery and fudgy with age.

Considering the milk…

•       pasteurized goat’s milk

What’s the type?

•       a bloomy rind dusted with smoked paprika aged 7-10 days

Where in the world?

•       Capriole Dairy in Greenville, Indiana

Stunning 1/3 lb wheels of fresh goaty deliciousness that are the definition of eating first with our eyes. Feast away on the delicate, tart, and lactic with its fine and airy texture and flavors of fresh grass, herbs, and flowers. The rind is covered in fresh flower petals, herbs, and fennel pollen.

Considering the milk…

•       pasteurized goat’s milk

What’s the type?

•       a semi-hard flowered rind with no age

Where in the world?

•       Capriole Dairy in Greenville, Indiana

This wonderfully delicate and creamy semi-hard goat's milk cheese is made using traditional cheesemaking techniques with modern equipment. With a long floral and granular finish, Verigoat is a perfectly delicious cheese- great for snacking, cheese boards, or cooking.

Considering the milk...

• raw goat's milk aged 3 months

What’s the Type?

• semi-hard

Where in the world?

• Valley Shepherd Creamery in Long Valley, New Jersey

This 2019 ACS best in class hard goat's milk cheese is beautifully nutty with a long caramel and salty finish

Considering the milk...

• raw goat's milk aged 10 months

What’s the Type?

• hard cheese

Where in the world?

• Lively Run Goat Dairy in Interlaken, New York

Available only during the months of November and December while the cows are eating the winter’s dry hay, this gooey and spoonable washed wheel is the ideal centerpiece to any festive table. It is rich and deep in flavor reminiscent of beef broth, cured meat, cultured cream, toasted nuts, and grass.

Considering the milk...

• raw cow’s milk aged 60 days

What’s the Type?

• washed and bloomy cheese

Where in the world?

• Uplands Cheese in Dodgeville, Wisconsin

Stormy Acres Bee Farm, run by Allan and Elaine Storm, are among our very favorites. Located in Bowie, Maryland, they specialize in fantastic wildflower honey. Every harvest is a little different depending on what the bees are into.