Lot # : 17 - Cypress Grove Delicate, Flavorful Goat Cheese

Donor: Cypress Grove This Cypress Grove Cheese Basket includes several Soft-Ripened Cheeses, delicate yet with pronounced flavor profiles: Humboldt Fog (1 pound wheel), Midnight Moon (1 pound wedge), Lamb Chopper (1 pound wedge), Purple Haze (4 oz disk), Truffle Tremor (1 pound wheel), PsycheDillic (4 oz disk), Sgt. Pepper (4 oz disk), as well as a 15"x12" slate stone cutting board with cheese knife. Value: $165 The fine cheese-making alchemy at Cypress Grove first started with two goats: Esmeralda and Hazel sometime in the '70s. Those two goats turned to four and pretty soon, well, more, and… a lot of milk. After Mary Keehn officially opened the doors of Cypress Grove in 1983, she traveled to the cheese mecca in France, where she learned from the masters. Returning home, Mary imagined her first cheese accented with a thick line of ash reminiscent of the fog often blanketing the expansive Humboldt County coastline - and the idea of Humboldt Fog® was born. The rest is history. As America's tastes evolve, so does the demand for cheeses that please clamoring fans. Cypress Grove now produces a variety of cheeses consumed at festivals, family gatherings, spur-of-the-moment picnics, and some of the best restaurants in the country. The dairy is managed primarily with the health and happiness of the herd in mind. The American Humane Association has endorsed Cypress Grove model dairy as Humane Certified with a 100 percent score not one, not two, but three years running.