By Peg Todloski, Weaver Street Market Specialy Merchandiser
This year, we’ve started bringing in small-batch, artisan cheeses a couple of times a month. We’re calling it our Special Delivery program: we bring in a limited amount of these amazing cheeses and sell them at a crazy-good price. When they’re gone, they’re gone, but not to worry, there’ll be something else on the way. Be sure to stop by our cheese counters to find out what Special Delivery we’ve received lately.
This week 32 beautiful little wheels of Mt. Alice landed in North Carolina, and we couldn’t be happier! Mt. Alice is a certified-organic camembert from von Trapp Farmstead in the Green Mountains of Vermont, a third generation family farm (and yes, related to those Von Trapps).
Werner and Erika von Trapp purchased the farm in Waitsville, Vermont in 1959, and it has been a working dairy farm ever since. Over the course of three generations, the von Trapp family has transitioned the farm to a certified organic dairy. Sebastian Von Trapp has been making organic cheeses at the farm since 2009. The von Trapp family mission for their farm is to be one example of how to make a small family farm in the center of Vermont economically viable by producing delicious, organic, small-batch cheeses.
And delicioius it is! Mt. Alice Camembert has a lovely deep yellow color, a rich, elegant mouthfeel, and a balance of both sweet cream and savory mushroom flavors. This could be one of the best camemberts we’ve ever tried.
Learn more about the von Trapp Farmstead at http://www.vontrappfarmstead.com/.