Cheesemaker Private Tour and Tasting


Item Number: 407

Time Left: CLOSED

Online Close: Mar 22, 2012 11:59 PM EDT

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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.

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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