"dunbarton blue cheese" news and stories

No cheese better captures both the earthy, nutty taste of cheddar and the piquant kick of a blue cheese like Dunbarton Blue from Roelli Cheese Company in Shullsburg, Wis. This cheese hybrid is not the result of mere coincidence. It's the brilliant effect of ever so carefully applying several different cheese-making techniques – "cheddaring," piercing the cheese and above all cave-aging the cheese. To find out more about how all these procedures create Dunbarton Blue, we spoke to its creator, Chris Roelli.

"I set out to create a young to medium aged farmstead cheddar with a hint of blue," explains Roelli. To achieve this goal, he begins with collecting high-quality fresh milk from a single dairy. According to Roelli, selecting the milk is one of the most important parts of the cheese making process. The blue veins are created by introducing blue mold spores to the already flavorful milk. But, that's not the only way blue is added to the cheese.