Pleasant Ridge Reserve

Raw Cow’s Milk

Farmstead-made in Iowa County

Each year one cheese is voted the “Best in Show” at the American Cheese Society award. Over 2,000 cheeses compete every year. Pleasant Ridge Reserve has won this highest honor four times. No other state has even won that many times. It is truly the Best Cheese in America.

How can one cheese be so special? It starts with the cows. From a single mixed herd, raised on the farm, only milk from May to October is used in Pleasant Ridge Reserve. That is when the cow’s are eating  grass from their pastures just outside the dairy facility. Twice daily the milk is pumped into production from the milking parlor to produce this Alpine style cheese, similar to a Gruyere.

In wine making, estate bottled wines are the benchmark. Pleasant Ridge Reserve is the “estate” cheese of North America.