Jasper Hill Farm is an artisan cheesemaker in Greensboro, Vermont,[1][2] owned and operated by Andy and Mateo Kehler. [3] Jasper Hill Farm is also the location of the Cellars at Jasper Hill, which provides aging, sales & marketing services.
History and Products edit
Brothers Andy & Mateo Kehler purchased a piece of land in 1999 known locally in Greensboro as “the Jasper Hill farm,” so-called after a previous owner named Jasper Hill. The Kehlers began selling cheese under the Jasper Hill Farm brand in 2003.
In 2003, Jasper Hill was approached by Cabot Creamery to collaborate on aging a natural-rind clothbound cheddar, which became known as Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. In 2006 this cheese won Best of Show at the American Cheese Society conference.
Inspired by the success of Cabot Clothbound, the Kehlers went on to build the Cellars at Jasper Hill, a 22,000 square foot cheese aging facility built into the hillside of Jasper Hill Farm. The Cellars became operational in 2008, and now ages cheese made by Jasper Hill Farm, as well as products made by 4 other creameries local to northern Vermont and New Hampshire. The Cellars provides sales, marketing & distribution services for the products in its collection, with the goal of reducing the barriers to entry for small-scale cheesemakers. Cheeses aged at the Cellars are distributed nationally within the US; select products are exported for sale in Europe, Canada and Australia.
Jasper Hill Farm is a member of the Specialist Cheesemakers Association,[4] the American Cheese Society, and the Vermont Cheese Council.[5]
Starting in 2013, Jasper Hill began teaching beginning and intermediate cheesemaking courses in conjunction with Sterling College of Craftsbury, Vermont.
In 2013, Winnimere won Best of Show at the annual American Cheese Society conference.
In February 2014, Bayley Hazen Blue was served at the White House state dinner for visiting French President François Hollande.[6]
At the 2014 World Cheese Awards, Bayley Hazen Blue won Super Gold and placed in the Top 16 out of over 2,600 entries from 33 countries, and was named “World’s Best Unpasteurized Cheese”.[7]
Notable Awards edit
Alpha Tolman
- 2012 Super Gold, World Cheese Awards[8]
Bayley Hazen Blue
- 2014 Super Gold, World Cheese Awards. Also "World's Best Unpasteurized Cheese"[9]
- 2014 Best of Class, World Championship Cheese Contest[10]
Cabot Clothbound Cheddar
- 2015 Best in Class, American Cheese Society [11]
- 2014 Gold Medal, World Cheese Awards[12]
- 2013 Best of Class, American Cheese Society[13]
- 2011 Award Winner, Good Food Awards[14]
- 2006 Best of Show, American Cheese Society[15]
Harbison
- 2015 Best American Cheese and Super Gold (Top 16), World Cheese Awards [16]
- 2015 2nd Runner Up for Best of Show, American Cheese Society [17]
- 2015 Best of Class, World Championship Cheese Contest [18]
- 2014 Best of Class, American Cheese Society[19]
- 2014 Best of Class, World Championship Cheese Contest[20]
- 2013 Gold Medal, World Cheese Awards[21]
- 2012 Super Gold, World Cheese Awards[22]
- 2012 Best of Class, World Championship Cheese Contest[23]
Weybridge
- 2012 Award Winner, Good Food Awards[24]
Willoughby
- 2013 Best of Class, American Cheese Society[25]
Winnimere
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Alchemy yields magical cheeses September 19, 2013 Stowe Reporter
- ^ IN THIS STATE: AT JASPER HILL FARMS, A MAGICAL ALCHEMY YIELDS AWARD-WINNING CHEESE ANDREW NEMETHY SEP. 15, 2013 VTDigger.com
- ^ Great US Creameries ABC News
- ^ [1] Specialist Cheesmakers Association
- ^ [2] Vermont Cheese Council Members
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). whitehouse.gov. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-01-27. Retrieved 2014-04-28 – via National Archives.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Feb. 11 2014 State Dinner .pdf - ^ Jasper Hill Wins World Championship of Raw Cheese Nov. 14 2014 Burlington Free Press
- ^ [3] Artisan Cheese Exchange
- ^ [4] Archived 2015-04-29 at the Wayback Machine 2014 World Cheese Awards winners
- ^ [5] 2014 World Champ. Cheese Contest results
- ^ "Winners | American Cheese Society Judging & Competition". Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-01-26. 2015 ACS Winners
- ^ [6] Archived 2015-04-29 at the Wayback Machine 2014 World Cheese Awards winners
- ^ [7] 2013 ACS winners
- ^ [8] 2011 Good Food Awards
- ^ [9] 2006 ACS winners .pdf
- ^ [10] Archived 2016-01-22 at the Wayback Machine 2015 World Cheese Awards winners
- ^ "Winners | American Cheese Society Judging & Competition". Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-01-26. 2015 ACS Winners
- ^ [11] 2015 World Championship Cheese results
- ^ [12] 2014 ACS winners .pdf
- ^ [13] 2014 World Champ. Cheese Contest results
- ^ [14] 2013 World Cheese Awards results
- ^ [15] Artisan Cheese Exchange
- ^ [16] Cookipedia: 2012 World Cheese Awards results
- ^ [17] 2012 Good Food Awards
- ^ [18] 2013 American Cheese Society winners
- ^ "Winners | American Cheese Society Judging & Competition". Archived from the original on 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2016-01-26. 2015 ACS Winners
- ^ [19] Archived 2016-01-22 at the Wayback Machine 2015 World Cheese Awards winners
- ^ [20] 2013 ACS winners
- ^ [21] 2013 World Cheese Awards results
- ^ [22] Cookipedia: 2012 World Cheese Awards results
- ^ [23] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine 2011 World Champ. Cheese winners .pdf