Salutations, cheese lovers! What an exciting week we had here at Cherry Grove Farm! We just sent out our entries to the American Cheese Society competition, where over 2,000+ cheeses from around the country are judged, and the highest scoring cheeses win awards. (We’ve won several!)
You can see more about the judging process here.

In order to choose our entries, we spent the last week hand selecting the most beautiful wheels from various batches of our cheeses, all of which were then taste-tested and critiqued by our cheesemaking staff, so we could winnow the field to those we are most proud of and feel have the best chance of winning.

In past year’s we have won blue ribbons for our Buttercup Brie, Lawrenceville Jack Reserve, and Abruzze Jawn, and a Silver Medal for Rarebird. Here’s hoping we come home with some 2019 winners!

A tale of two Rarebirds…. The beauty of raw farmstead cheeses is how they vary season to season.

We pulled these two beauties for this last batch tasting to choose ACS entries. You can see just how different this little cheese is when made with summer milk versus winter milk… textures change, flavors change, even the color changes!

Hoping our Rarebird soars this awards season!