{"id":3181,"date":"2025-06-14T04:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/great-value-cheeses-grafton-village-cheese-co-cheddars\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:25:26","slug":"great-value-cheeses-grafton-village-cheese-co-cheddars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/great-value-cheeses-grafton-village-cheese-co-cheddars\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Value Cheeses: Grafton Village Cheese Co. Cheddars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor\u2019s note: We love great cheese, but we also love saving money on cheese. We\u2019ve tapped Certified Cheese Professional David Phillips to share some of his favorite picks that are particularly well priced. Our first installment featured <\/em>Mimolette, Widmer Extra Aged Brick and Hornkuhk\u00e4se<\/em><\/a> and our <\/em>second featured Piave, Grana Padano, and Pecorino Romano<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grafton Village Cheese Co.<\/a> is a historic co-op based creamery in Grafton, Vt. It might be the Green Bay Packers of the cheese biz, in that the creamery is sort of owned by the village and run by the non-profit Windham Foundation<\/a>, with the mission of maintaining Vermont\u2019s rural character. All cheeses are made with raw milk from local farms. At our store, Potash Markets in Chicago, two of those cheeses have a regular spot in the cheese case, and we just added a third. We sell all three for $21.99 per pound, and they are probably sold for under $20 per pound in many markets (we\u2019ve seen them online for as little as $16 a pound). These Cheddars are each great quality, especially for the price.<\/p>\n

2 Year Aged Cheddar<\/h2>\n
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Grafton 2 year aged Cheddar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This cheese expresses the difference between a Vermont cheddar and those made nearly everywhere else. It has a savory, blunt flavor that includes a certain sharp flavor. This \u201cVermont bite\u201d has been more precisely described as bitter, with sulfuric compounds. Certainly it eschews the sweet finish found in many other Cheddars, and typical of Wisconsin Cheddars.<\/p>\n

Grafton\u2019s online marketing describes \u201cbuttery notes with a bold, sharp tang and a long, nutty finish.\u201d Grafton mentions that young batches are selected based on trajectory to reach a balanced, mature flavor with aging. Indeed, the result is a nice balanced flavor that our customers can\u2019t get enough of. Grafton 2-year exhibits a slightly crumbly texture, and it holds its shape under light melting<\/p>\n

It works well on a cheese plate or in a potato dish, and Grafton suggests melting it on warm apple pie\u2014a delightful Vermont tradition.<\/p>\n

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Truffle Cheddar<\/h2>\n
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Grafton Village Truffle Cheddar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are enough truffle-cheese fans among our customers that we keep a number of truffle cheeses in rotation. Grafton\u2019s Truffle Cheddar is made with raw milk, Italian truffles and truffle oil. It has a pleasing truffle aroma and a big umami flavor, and is less expensive than just about every other truffle cheese we carry. It stands out on a cheese plate, and I like to melt it in an omelet with bell peppers and summer tomatoes.<\/p>\n

Grafton recommends pairing with Barolo, Orvieto white wine, pinot noir and brown ale. I\u2019m Googling Orvieto as soon as I finish here.<\/p>\n

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Smoked Chili Cheddar<\/h2>\n
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Grafton Smoked Chili Cheddar<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The newest Grafton cheese in our store is made with haba\u00f1ero, jalape\u00f1o and pasilla peppers mixed in the curd. Once the cheese is drained and pressed, it is cold-smoked over maple and hardwood chips. The flavor is nicely balanced and not overpowering. The chili flavors are up front, with the light smoke chiming in at the finish. We carry other smoked cheeses (including an outstanding smoked Cheddar from Vermont\u2019s Shelburne Farms) and a couple cheeses with peppers, but Grafton Smoked Chili Cheddar is the only cheese we carry that combines those two irresistible attributes. This cheese performs well in a mac and cheese, and I will certainly put some on a burger as soon as Spring hits the Midwest.<\/p>\n

Grafton suggests pairing with it a Pilsner or a Belgian ale, and I am thinking a Belgian style Witbier would be fantastic, perhaps Allagash White<\/a> from Portland, Maine. Grafton Village offers more pairing suggestions and some recipes.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: We love great cheese, but we also love saving money on cheese. We\u2019ve tapped Certified Cheese Professional David Phillips to share some of his favorite picks that are particularly well priced. Our first installment featured Mimolette, Widmer Extra Aged Brick and Hornkuhk\u00e4se and our second featured Piave, Grana Padano, and Pecorino Romano. Grafton … Okumaya devam et “Great Value Cheeses: Grafton Village Cheese Co. Cheddars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[395],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milk-and-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sutyo.com\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}