Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese
Pleasant Ridge Reserve is named Best Cheese in America
We are proud to announce that on August 28, 2010, our Extra Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve won the American Cheese Society's annual competition, besting over 1400 of the nation's finest cheeses to be crowned Best of Show.
This is especially exciting for us, as it is the third time we have earned this honor in the past ten years, while no other cheese has won the competition more than once. Pleasant Ridge Reserve was named ACS Best of Show in 2001 and 2005, and was named Best of Show in the 2003 US Cheese Championships, also making it the only cheese to win both of the two major national competitions.
The timing is appropriate, as Labor Day is the traditional release date for our limited stock of Extra Aged wheels, which have been selected from the previous summer's production for the depth and complexity of their flavor, and have been aged at least 15 months. Read more about the recent triumph of our Extra Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve here, and place an order on our website while supplies last (it's going fast...).
We are a family-run dairy farm in southwestern Wisconsin, where we use the milk from our grass-fed cows to make an artisan, farmstead cheese called Pleasant Ridge Reserve.
We make Pleasant Ridge Reserve only during the summer months, while our cows are grazing on fresh pasture. This milk is full of flavor - and nutritional qualities - not found in the milk of cows kept inside and fed stored feed. We use only fresh milk that is never pasteurized, and age the cheese in ripening rooms on our farm to ensure that our cheese expresses all of the flavor complexity possible in a grass-fed, raw-milk cheese.
Here is a short video about how we make our Pleasant Ridge Reserve.
Contact us for more information by email or phone 888-935-5558.
A portion of our profits are given to Second Harvest of Southern Wisconsin, a local food bank.
