From the
Rogue
Creamery's inauspicious beginnings has come
one of the finest artisan cheese operations in the
world today. It all began in 1933. Thomas Vella
had emigrated from Italy in the 1920s and was
successfully producing cheese in Sonoma,
California. World War II loomed on the horizon and
Vella's brother back in Italy wrote that war in
Europe was indeed imminent. Tom predicted that the
milk used in his creamery would be diverted to
military bases and also theorized that quantities
of cheese would be needed to ship to Allied
troops. He was right on both accounds. Backed by
legendary cheese magnate J.L. Kraft, Vella
traveled to southern Oregon and purchased a
defunct cheese plant in Central Point. He quickly
started buying milk from local dairy farmers and
began turning out cheese. Hist strategy worked.
When war broke out, Vella had his supply of milk
and produced a total of five million pounds of
cheese a year for the War effort. Today, one may
step into the cinder block creamery to discover an
assortment of some of the best hand-milled, award
winning cheddars and blues in the world.
Products We Carry: Rogue
CavemanBlue 5# RWC Rogue ChocStout 8oz Rogue
CraterLkBlue 3.5oz Rogue CraterLkBlue 5# RWC
Rogue GarlicChed Curds 6oz Rogue Hopyard 8oz
Rogue Lavender 8oz Rogue MorimotoSobaAle 8oz
Rogue MtMazama 8oz Rogue ORBlue 3.5oz Rogue
ORBlue wheel 5# RWC Rogue Oregonzola 3.5oz
Rogue Oregonzola 5# RWC Rogue PistolPoint 8oz
Rogue RawMlkSharpChed 8oz Rogue RiverBlue 5#
RWC Rogue RosemaryTouvelle 8oz Rogue
SmokeyBlue 3.5oz Rogue SmokeyBlue 5# RWC
Rogue SmokeyTouvelle 8oz Rogue TouVelle 8oz
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