Blakesville Creamery St. Germain
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- Pasteurized
- Vegetarian Rennet
- Age: 60 Days
- Goat Milk
- by Blakesville Creamery
- United States
- ApproachableAdventurous
- SoftHard
St. Germain, with its mossy appearance, evokes the natural beauty of rocks made slick and grassy from rushing river water. Produced by Blakesville Creamery in Wisconsin, this striking cheese is crafted using milk from the sustainable farm’s 900 happy goats. This creamy, semi-firm stunner has a supple paste and is made in a similar style to Basque favorites like Pyrenees Brebis. At first bite, you’ll taste a sweet, goaty tang followed by subtle herbaceous notes and a pine needle essence. This cheese matches wonderfully with bright, acidic wines like a sauvignon blanc.
“The skeptical goat cheese eater will be won over with the soft flavor profile. Pair the approachable, munchable cheese, with the Divina Sour Cherry Spread or the Zotter Chocolates Amarena Cherry.”
Pasteurized Goat Milk, Cultures, Vegetarian Rennet, Salt
Allergens: Milk
- St. Germain is a Pyrenees-style cheese similar to Ossau Iraty—an ancient French cheese made from traditions that date as far back as 3,000 years. Produced from the milk of sheep herds that graze in the pastures of the Pyrenees mountains, this is a creamy, nutty cheese.
- Another well-known Pyrenees cheese is Pyrenees Brebis. Like Ossau Iraty, it is made from sheep’s milk from the Pyrenees mountains. Similar to St. Germain, it has sweet, floral undertones.
- St. Germain is a tomme-style cheese, which means that it’s a small, round cheese made on the same farm that produced the milk.
When you receive your cheese, unpack the order and refrigerate the items. We recommend using the cheese paper we send most of our products in to store the cheese. The cheese paper helps cover the items and stop them from drying out, while also allowing the cheese to breathe. Since cheese is mold, it's a living thing! If you cut off air circulation to the cheese, you can actually cause it to suffocate and spoil at a faster rate.
- Blakesville Creamery of Port Washington, Wisconsin, is a farmstead creamery—their cheeses are made by hand on the same farm where their goats are raised and milked.
- The farm was originally called Lake Breeze, but they changed the name in 2019 to honor the village that was previously located at that site.
- They began making cheese in 2020, now operating out of a 10,000 square-foot state-of-the-art creamery where they craft their naturally ripened cheeses.
- Lynde Uihlein, Blakesville Creamery’s owner, is dedicated to thoughtful land use and environmental protection, particularly through her organization The Brico Fund.
