The 2008 annual meetings of the American Jersey Cattle Association and National All-Jersey Inc. will have a unique and tasty event – a guided sampling of six artistian cheeses made exclusively with milk from Jersey dairy cows. The tasting will take place at 4:00 p.m. on June 25 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Asheville, N.C. Don’t miss out – the event is limited to 100 people!
The North Carolina Jersey Breeders Association is hosting the annual meeting and the guided tasting. Registrations can be made online for both events.
The tasting, part of the program for the 2008 will be conducted by Jeffrey Roberts, principal consultant for the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese and author of the acclaimed Atlas of American Artisan Cheese.
The cheese tasted will be:
Orb Weaver Cave Aged Farmhouse Cheese by Marjorie Susman and Marian Pollack of New Haven, Vt.; Thistle Hill Farm Tarentaise, made by John and Janine Putnam and family of North Pomfret, Vt.; Vache Sant from Bittersweet Plantation Dairy in Gonzales, La.; Blue Ridge Dairy of Leesburg, Va., will be represented by its fresh mozzarella; Hickory Grove by Portia McKnight and Florence Hawley at Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Blue Thistle by Eric Rector at Monroe Cheese Studio in Monroe, Maine.