Healdville, VT — It’s been just over a year since Galen and Jill Jones assumed management of the country’s oldest cheese company, and what a year it’s been! To celebrate, the Joneses are releasing their first “new” cheese: Crowley Fresh Chive. Like all of Crowley’s cheeses, this one has a nice story to go with it.
“We made a few wheels of this cheese for friends and family during this past holiday season, and everyone agreed that it was delicious,” says Jill Jones, Director of Sales and Marketing. “We made another batch earlier this spring and released it just in time for the recent Vermont Cheesemakers’ Festival, where it was a big hit. It is quite different from our popular Garlic Chive in that it contains fresh local chives with no garlic and has a subtler, more complex, elegant flavor, reminiscent of that great English classic, Double Gloucester with Chive.”
Crowley Fresh Chive is available in 2.5 lb wheels in limited release.
The Joneses have spent the past 12 months learning everything they can about the artisanal cheese business, renewing the company’s commitment to the very highest quality by securing milk from a single source, Carabeau Farm in nearby Tinmouth. Jill has been busy expanding the company’s retail distribution outlets and attending specialty food events from Burlington to last month’s Fancy Food Festival in New York. The company is also about the release an updated logo, designed by Rutland native, Julie Campbell.
Award-winning Crowley Cheese began in the Crowley family kitchen in Healdville, VT, in 1824. The present-day factory, built in 1882 by Winfield Crowley, is listed in the National Historic Register. Today, 185 years later, Crowley Cheese continues to make one of the finest cheeses in America. The recipe has not changed, nor has the way in which it is made.
Source: Crowley Cheese
