Cheese or Dairy Product 2008

Outstanding Cheese or Dairy Product 2008: Coach Farm Triple Cream Goat Cheese

For more than 20 years, Coach Farm of Pine Plains, N.Y., (recently sold to Best Cheese of Mount Kisco, N.Y.) has been selling hand-ladled fresh and artisanal cheeses. To make its line of more than 20 cheese varieties, the company uses milk from the nearly 900 French Alpine goats that range on the farm’s 600 acres.

This year’s Outstanding Cheese or Dairy award winner, Triple Cream Goat Cheese, is a 4-pound wheel of goat’s cheese with a bloomy, white rind, containing 75 percent butterfat. Aged about five weeks, it has a firm, but melt-in-your mouth texture, says Andrea Bartolomeo, sales representative for Coach Farm.

“Some people like to slice the wheel in half and layer it with cranberries and chopped nuts. Other retailers will slice the wheel on-site and sell it by the pound. And for retailers who don’t have slice-and-serve capabilities, we also offer it in 6-ounce individually wrapped discs,” she explains. 

Chefs use the cheese because, notes Bartolomeo, “its luxurious taste makes it great on a cheese platter, but it also works on pizza or pasta. Because of its consistency, chefs appreciate being able to cut the exact portion they need,” she continues, “and consumers enjoy it with fruit or as an after-dinner dessert platter.”

Coach offers signage, serving suggesting and information on the farm for retailers. Suggested retail: $39/1 pound or $20/6-ounce disc; coachfarm.com.—Susan Segrest

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