Moonside Creamery

Moonside Creamery Hand crafted cheese - sonoma county, california

Moonside Creamery is a family owned and operated micro-creamery. We make small-batch, hand crafted, organic cheese for select retailers and restaurants. We support only local, family dairies. Our goal is to produce flavorful cheese that reflects the unique character of our surroundings in the most efficient and sustainable manner possible. We are grateful to participate in the artisan food community of Sonoma County, California. We hope to add to the amazing choices by offering exceptional chesses to pair with the marvelous beverages and accompaniments this area provides.

You can find our cheeses at various restaurants, wineries and markets including Petaluma Market, Rainbow Grocery, Gus’s Market and Mission Cheese in San Francisco and Cowgirl Creamery in both locations-San Francisco and Point Reyes Station.

Current Specialty Cheeses

Midnight Eclipse, Halo, Companion, and Lunetta

Midnight Eclipse

Midnight Eclipse is a delicate cow’s milk disc that is dusted with black vegetable ash before growing a wrinkly rind. It is creamy in texture, offering mild citrus flavors when young and a more robust earthiness as it ages.

Halo

It may look like a classic French goat cheese, but Halo is a beautiful, donut-shaped cow’s milk cheese with a wrinkly geotrichum rind. It is fudgy in texture and becomes softer and more spreadable as it ages. The flavors are mild and milky with a bit of a bite from the rind.

Companion

Companion is a cow's milk disc that is washed with brine as it ages. The rind becomes tackier as the cheese ripens, giving way to a soft paste that offers balanced flavors of beef broth, unsweetened chocolate and hay.

Lunetta

Lunetta is a natural-rinded cow's milk tomme with a firm texture that may sometimes develop crunchy tyrosine crystals. The cheese offers bright flavors of citrus and cultured butter with a savory, long finish.

Awards

California State Fair 2018 - Moonside Creamery

Gold- Best of California; Mixed Milk Soft Cheese- Aurora
Gold- Best of Show, Best in California: California Originals, Mixed Milk Soft Cheese- Smoke Ring
Bronze- Cow Milk- Lunetta

American Cheese Society 2017 - Moonside Creamery

Lunetta: 2nd place 2017. American Originals, Cow milk.

American Cheese Society 2015 - Jennifer Kirkham

As cheesemaker at Pugs Leap

Petite Marcel: 1st place. Chevre Affine
Cosette: 2nd place. Chevre
Samson: 2nd place. Aged Tomme

American Cheese Society 2014 - Jennifer Kirkham

As cheesemaker at Tomales Farmstead Creamery

Atika: 2nd place. Mixed milk washed rind

Contact Us

For more information please contact:

Jennifer Kirkham, Cheesemaker

email

Moonside Creamery - Plant #06-06870 Valley Ford, California 94952

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