Wine and cheese tastings, every Saturday in June at Mount Nittany Vineyard and Winery

Posted by Linda Weaver on 06/04, 2014 at 10:41 AM

The following Saturday, June 14, Goot Essa will bring their cheeses to our tasting room to sample and sell. Goot Essa, which means “good food” in the Amish dialect, is a group of Plain Pennsylvania dairy farmers formed in 2001. The members make foods with recipes and methods handed down from generation to generation. The food products are made with all natural ingredients and no added preservatives. Goot Essa cheeses offer real flavor, made the old fashioned way in small quantities, with individual attention that makes a selection for your table or a gift for a friend so much more meaningful.

On Saturday, June 21, Clover Creek Cheese Cellar will be on hand in the tasting room to share samples of their cheese products.  Clover Creek is a family consisting of seven members: Dave, Terry, Anthony, Yolanda, Jesse, Austin, and Vannika Rice. They have 126 acres in beautiful Morrison’s Cove Valley in Blair County where they feed, milk, and care for 70 Milking Shorthorns, Jerseys, Holsteins, Ayershires, Brown Swiss, and crossbred cows. Clover Creek’s cheese is aged in one of our two cellars on maple shelving. The aging and growing process gives their cheese a complex flavor and sharpness usually found in European style cheeses. Their milk is from a single herd who are all fed grass pasture
. All cheese is made from fresh raw milk started during the milking time
 and is allowed to naturally age and mature in large wheels 
which are cut and vacuum packed after aging for best flavor.

Cheese vendor on June 28 TBA.

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