Monthly Cheese Subscription
per month
Receive a curated, rotating selection of 3 American artisan cheeses each month (about 1.5 pounds), with the option to add pairings and crackers.
Spring blossoms in May's subscription featuring fresh and bloomy-rind goat cheeses, complemented by orange blossom honey, Kalamata tapenade, delicate prosciutto, and fennel taralli crackers.
Tea Rose, adorned with fragrant herbs and flower petals, evokes the essence of spring, while Lake Breeze offers citrusy flavors with a hint of barnyard aroma. Bucheron combines two goat cheese styles into one rich and earthy delight. Our tasting menu will help you pair these cheeses with their perfect accompaniments.
Order by Thursday to ship Monday every week.
Subscription Details
Finally! An award-winning cheese subscription fully customizable to your cheese preferences and allergies. We'll curate an extraordinary, rotating selection of three American artisan cheeses per month (approx 1.5 pounds), with the option to add pairings and crackers.
By letting our experts select the cheeses in each delivery, you'll expand your palate, discover new favorites, and experience the best that American artisan cheesemakers have to offer. There are hundreds of artisan cheese producers in the United States and thousands of wheels to try.
Here's a pro tip for diving into our cheese subscription: Challenge yourself to try new cheeses and expand your palate! You may not have enjoyed goat cheese or funky cheeses like blues and washed rinds in the past, but you just might find some you love in your next subscription box.
With each shipment, we'll email a custom digital tasting guide with tips for creating the perfect food and beverage pairings with your selections. You'll also receive a printable and editable tasting journal you can use to take notes on each cheese.
Cheese Styles Included
• Bloomy rind, Washed rind, Natural rind, Waxed rind, Blue, Smoked, Herbed, Spiced, Cow cheese, Sheep cheese, Goat cheese (unless otherwise requested in our preferences section)
• What are funky cheeses? We call blue cheeses and washed rind cheeses “funky cheeses” because they are stronger in flavor and aroma.
• What are flavored cheeses? We call cheeses infused with herbs, spices, and smoke “flavored cheeses” because the interior or exterior of the cheese has added flavor.
• The subscription includes three cheeses (1.5 pounds total) per shipment. The cheeses shipped are selected at optimal ripeness and best enjoyed within 2 to 3 weeks of delivery.
• One serving of cheese is anywhere from 2 to 4 ounces, depending on your appetite. This package is great for 6 to 12 servings over weeks of enjoyment.
May's Spring Theme
Spring Goat Cheeses & Edible Flowers
Tea Rose, adorned with fragrant herbs and flower petals, evokes the essence of spring, while Lake Breeze offers citrusy flavors with a hint of barnyard aroma. Bucheron combines two goat cheese styles into one rich and earthy delight. Our tasting menu will help you pair these cheeses with their perfect accompaniments.
The pairings
Add our May pairings to your order!
- Fennel Taralli Crackers
- Kalamata Olive Tapenade
- Orange Blossom Honey
- Prosciutto
If you have a gluten allergy, we will substitute gluten-free crackers.
If you have a nut allergy, we will replace the nuts with other tasty olives.
If you are a vegetarian we will replace with another cheese.
A Peek into Next Month's Cheese Box
Spirit-Infused Cheeses & Pairings
For June's box we're celebrating with inventive cheeses that take whiskey, Scotch ale, and tequila and infuse them into the cheese curds before aging. The result is a depth of flavor and an essence of each spirit that pairs wonderfully with spicy chorizo, Spanish romesco, and freshly-dried crispy orange slices.
Tulip Tree Creamery is producing a limited-release of White Oak cheese — exclusively for us!— featuring a Kentucky whiskey, Fortune's Fool, which is one of the only female-owned whiskey brands in the United States. Lively Run Dairy's Shire Gouda is made in collaboration with New York's Hopshire Farm & Brewery, where their Shire Scotch ale is blended with the curds before forming the final cheese. Deer Creek Cheese's The Rattlesnake is an exceptional flavor experience — spicy, sweet, tropical, and HOT. They start with a smooth, creamy, medium aged Cheddar curd recipe and infuse it with premium gold tequila and Habanero peppers.
How the Subscription Works
• Once signed up, you can easily manage your subscription frequency and contents via our subscriber portal. Need assistance? Email us at info@cheesegrotto.com and we'll respond within 3 business days.
• This is a recurring subscription that will continue unless otherwise canceled.
• Your card will be charged every 4 weeks, and each month's order will be processed the Thursday before the order is shipped.
• You can pause the subscription, skip a delivery, or cancel any time.
Shipping
• Your recurring shipping charge per order is based on your zip code.
• We ship every Monday. To be included in the following week’s shipment, please place your order by the Thursday before.
• Please visit our shipping policy page for additional questions.
Allergies
If you choose to add crackers and 3 accompaniments to your subscription box, we will rotate and pair according to the featured cheeses each month and your allergy specifications.
Downloadable Gift Card
Need a gift card you can email or print?
We got you! Download this gift card and share with the lucky gift recipient! The size of the card is 5.5 inches by 4.5 inches so it can be formatted on a full-sized printer paper, or can be formatted to print double-sided!
What Is Artisan Cheese?
According to the American Cheese Society, "artisan or artisanal implies that a cheese is produced primarily by hand, in small batches, with particular attention paid to the tradition of the cheesemaker’s art, and thus using as little mechanization as possible in the production of the cheese."
Over the past decade, the American artisan cheese community has been recognized internationally for its quality and integrity. Small to medium-scale artisan cheesemakers have a core set of values: High-quality milk makes incredible cheese, and high-quality land and animal management makes for incredible milk. In our industrial food system, committing to these core values requires long hours of hard work and strict attention to detail.
Our monthly subscription directly supports American artisan cheesemakers and the strengthening and diversification of our food system.
CHEESE ACCOMPANIMENTS
Want pairings with your cheese?
Sign up to include a monthly rotating selection of artisan crackers and 3 expertly matched pairings for your 3 artisan cheeses each month. You'll be glad you did!
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