Cabot Cloth Bound Cheddar

We just received our first wheel of the very special Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. Cabot Clothbound Cheddar is the result of a unique collaboration among cheese craftsmen in Vermont. Cabot Creamery makes sixty clothbound wheels each quarter and then ships them off to be skillfully matured in the cellars at Jasper Hill Farm. While the partners differ considerably in scale - Cabot is the largest dairy in Vermont, Jasper Hill one of the smallest - this Old World style cheddar exists thanks to their neighborly cooperation.
So, what is the big deal you ask? Well Matteo Kehler of Jasper Hill is just geeky, in the best possible ways, about cheese. And he translates this into really well aged cheese. See it is not just the milk and the cheese maker that make great cheese, as many of you who buy cheese from us regularly know. It is the environment that cheese is aged and stored at that can really develope a cheeses potential.
We will be cutting into this wheel Saturday November 15, 2008 at 12:00pm. If you have never tasted a FRESH cut wheel of cheese then you have missed out on a unique experience. Do not miss this opportunity as we do not expect this wheel to last long and again, when it is fresh cut, there is nothing else like it. Cheers.