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Your favorite Carr Valley Cheese, now in snacking form!

Carr Valley Cheese Stix are the smart snack anyone can enjoy anytime, anywhere. Never has an artisan cheese been packaged in an easier to consume fashion that’s perfect to toss in a backpack or briefcase.

These handcrafted artisan cheese snacks go equally well with a nice glass of Pinot as they do in your kid’s lunchbox. As always, our Stix are made from milk produced without hormones, antibiotics, or GMOs. Grab, go and enjoy.

1st PLACE DRY JACK – AMERICAN CHEESE SOCIETY AWARDS 2023

Very hard, aged, dry version of Monterey Jack with delicious nutty flavor. The cheese is used in cooked foods or grated onto pasta or salads. Created `by accident` in 1915. A wholesaler found himself with an over-abundance of Jack Fresh. He had to store it for a long time. In order to protect it he hand-salted each one of cheeses. A few weeks later he discovered that the cheeses were fruity and rich in taste.

Hailing from Italy, mozzarella is a mild, white fresh cheese thats made by the special pasta filata process, whereby the curd is dipped into hot whey, then stretched to the desired consistency. At one time, mozzarella was made only from the milk of water buffaloes. Today, however, the majority of it is made with cows milk. Fresh Mozzarella is not cured in brine or aged like the low-moisture Mozzarella more familiar to most of us. The moist, sweet, tender, milky, nutty and buttery flavor, and springy, yielding texture, is unlike that of any other dairy product. The different sizes of fresh mozzarella relate best to the sizes of fresh tomatoes since it naturally is a gastronomical match made in heaven. Fresh mozzarella is always packed in water.` Its generally made from whole milk and has a much softer texture and a sweet, delicate flavor. Its excellent simply spread on bread with salt, pepper and a little olive oil.

2nd PLACE BEST IN SHOW – AMERICAN CHEESE SOCIETY AWARDS 2023

Named after the land formation on which our farm sits, Pleasant Ridge Reserve is made in the tradition of Alpine cheeses like Gruyere and Beaufort. Like the Alpage versions of these cheeses, we only make Pleasant Ridge Reserve from May through October when our cows are eating fresh pasture. This grass-fed, raw milk produces flavors in the cheese that can`t be replicated by ordinary milk.

Marieke transforms farmstead-fresh, raw, cow`s milk from her family farm into award-winning cheese, which is then carefully cured on imported Dutch pine planks in temperature and humidity-controlled aging cellars The super aged Gouda was a hard texture flanked with crystals and flavors reminscent of butterscotch.
Pair With: Hazelnuts and quince paste rioja, or tempranillo
A chees course standout with fruit and nuts. Serve with cured meats and olives

At Tillamook, we remain guided by the same values and beliefs we started with in 1909. We believe quality comes above profit and that natural always beats artificial. We never cut corners—it’s just not our style. We source the highest quality ingredients to bring you products that are DOWNRIGHT DELICIOUS. We promise to do things the right way, always, because the only thing we love more than making our food, is making it for you.