Featured: Wisconsin's Carr Valley Cheese (Hyde Park)

Calling All Cheeseheads! 

If Wisconsin is known for anything, it's cheese. And in this special tasting, we get to highlight and feature customer favorite Carr Valley Cheese. Certified Master Cheesemaker Sid Cook has won more top national and international awards than any other cheesemaker in North America. As a fourth-generation cheesemaker, he received his cheesemaking license when he was 16 and now owns and operates four cheese plants and seven retail cheese stores in Wisconsin. As a company, Carr Valley Cheese began in 1902; today it's best known for producing high-quality, artisanal aged Cheddars. Using cow, goat, and sheep milks, Sid enjoys creating new cheeses, and Carr Valley now produces 100+ different dairy products. He crafts cheese the old-fashioned way, by hand, with a goal of producing high-quality cheese with outstanding flavor. 

Fortunately for us, Carr Valley's own Aleta Junik is making a special trip down just to see us and guide our guests through a tasting of 7 of our favorite cheeses, each complemented with food pairing bites to showcase their world of aroma, taste, and flavor. Come help us show America's Dairyland what a hearty Texas Welcome looks like! (Your stomach will be thrilled you did...)

One ticket = one person and includes:

• 7 cheeses
• 7 food pairings
• additional treats like crackers, pickles, & corn nuts (GF crackers avail if requested in allergies)

Beverages?

While water is provided at the tasting, we also offer bottles of wine to purchase in advance from our Cheese Shop (in purchasing options below). Alternatively, you may purchase wine, beer, and cider in the Cheese Shop prior to your event. (The Cheese Shop is across the street and open daily 11-7.) You may also BYOB; however, please note that we charge a $15 per bottle service fee, starting September 1.

Reserved Seating

We assign seats prior to your event. If you wish to sit with guests who are purchasing separately, we must be notified in advance. At the time of ticket purchase, there is a question prompt for you to list others in your group. Please note that we cannot seat groups larger than 8 at the same table. (Big groups? Check out our FAQs.)

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Know Before You Go:

• TIMING: We try to start our events as close to on time as possible. Please arrive on time or a little early. (Doors open 15 min before start time.) We'll guide all guests through a 1.5 hour tasting, leaving an additional 30 min for socializing. Total event time is 2 hours. 
• LOCATION: Event will be held in-person at our Hyde Park Community Tasting Room (500 Park Blvd, Austin TX 78751), accessible off Duval Street.
• PARKING: Limited free parking is available onsite and neighboring streets in designated areas; there is additional paid parking behind the cheese shop across
  the street.
• FAQs: Please read our frequently asked questions below, which cover:
  • Cancellations & Refund Policy
  • Allergies & Dietary Preferences/Needs
  • Large Parties
  • Age Restrictions
    
• REMINDER: Ticket-holders will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours before the event with full details.

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