Upper Canada Cheese: Love your local Guersney

Locavores need not despair! You too can have fine artisan cheese! The Cheese Outlet is pleased to feature Upper Canada Cheese.

About Upper Canada Cheese Company:

In the first small, modern Niagara creamery in generations, Upper Canada Cheese Company hand crafts premium artisanal cheeses from the milk of local Guernsey cows. Expressing the unique terroir of the extraordinary Niagara Escarpment World Biosphere region with rich Guernsey milk and the talents of their cheesemakers.

Each day, fresh, pure Guernsey cow milk is transformed into cheeses of uncommon taste and texture, revealing a subtle range of flavours influenced by the seasons, forage and feed. Then, the cheeses are ideally aged in the Upper Canada cellars until they're ready for you. This is the whole food, farm to table idea; a minimum of food processing intervention to produce the purest cheeses possible.

Come on by The Cheese Outlet and bring home a taste of these fine Upper Canada cheese varieties!

Niagara Gold is an Oka-style semi-soft, washed rind cheese fashioned after recipes developed by the Trappist Monks of the Loire Valley. This is a cheese with nutty, earthy overtones and mellow, buttery flavours. This luscious cheese is delicately mild and sweet when young and gains pungency and piquant qualities with age. The rind may be eaten or trimmed depending on your taste. Niagara Gold is sold after 5 months of careful aging in the Upper Canada cellars. Under good conditions, it ages well for months and continues to develop unique flavours over time.

Comfort Cream is a camembert-style soft, white bloomy rind cheese with a silky, creamy, golden interior. Rich flavours of fresh truffles prevail with an intense, buttery palate and a long, tangy finish. This delicate and luscious artisanal cheese is hand salted, hand turned and hand wrapped. Comfort Cream stored in temperature and humidity-controlled cellars for at least 4 weeks before sale. An additional few weeks of aging will see the cheese ripen and mature in flavour, texture and colour.

For more information on Upper Canada Cheese Company visit their website here.