Cheesemaker Private Tour and Tasting

Item Number: 407
Time Left: CLOSED
Online Close: Mar 22, 2012 11:59 PM EDT
Bid History: 1 bid
Description
The Bay Area has become renowned for its various cheeses. Visit Barinaga Ranch, a small farmstead sheep-cheese producer in West Marin, for an enjoyable 2-hour ranch tour for you and up to 7 friends. Your tour includes a visit to the creamery where the cheese is made, the possibility of watching the ewes being milked during the afternoon milking and a fun cheese tasting to round out your day. Continue your cheese edification at home with the book Cheese & Wine: A Guide to Selecting, Pairing, and Enjoying, and beautiful cheese wrappers perfect for storing or gift wrapping your collection of fancy cheeses.
Special Instructions
Date to be mutually agreeable; there will be some walking on hills to visit the sheep; cheese is not available until mid-June; milking ends in early October. Tour is not suitable for small children. Best months are July, August or September; warm clothes are suggested as summers are cool and often foggy or windy.
Donated by Barinaga Ranch Inc; Chronicle Books