Grafton Village Cheese Recognized In Yankee Magazine’s Editors Choice Food Awards

Oct. 31, 2013 - PRLog -- Grafton, Vt. -- Grafton Village Cheese (http://www.graftonvillagecheese.com/), a business of the nonprofit Windham Foundation in Grafton, Vt, has been recognized as a 2013 “Editors’ Choice Food Awards” winner in Yankee Magazine’s November/December issue. Grafton Village Cheese’s Vermont Clothbound Cheddar was recognized by Yankee editors as a favorite artisanal New England food in the Dairy & Cheese category. To view the complete winners list, visit YankeeMagazine.com/foodawards (http://www.yankeemagazine.com/article/food-awards/2013-editors-choice-food-awards).

Grafton’s Vermont Clothbound Cheddar is a classic milled curd cow’s milk cheddar wrapped in cheesecloth while it ages slowly in Grafton’s own aging caves for a minimum of six months. Grafton’s Vermont Clothbound delivers a very bold cheese with both nut and mushroom notes. In addition to being recognized by Yankee Magazine, the cheese was awarded a second place at the American Cheese Society and the Big E New England Cheese Competition; and, a bronze at the US Championship Cheese Contest this year.

This year’s awards season has been exceptional for Grafton Village Cheese as a whole, having received a total of 23 awards for various cheeses at the American Cheese Society, International Cheese Awards, US Championship Cheese Contest and the Big E New England Cheese Competition in 2013.

Vermont Clothbound Cheddar is currently available for sale in Grafton Village Cheese’s two retail stores in Grafton and Brattleboro, Vermont, as well as in specialty cheese shops.

For more information about Grafton Village Cheese visit graftonvillagecheese.com or call 800-GRAFTON.

In addition to the annual Editors’ Choice Food Awards, Yankee’s “Holiday Food Guide” also features 36 recipes from starters to sweets, including Thanksgiving ideas and a special “Cookies through the Decades” feature.

Yankee Magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. It is the only magazine devoted to New England through its coverage of travel, home, food and feature stories. Its average circulation is 317,000 and total audience of 1.7 million readers.

About Grafton Village Cheese

Grafton Village Cheese, located in Grafton, Vermont, handcrafts artisanal aged cheddar and specialty cheese. The company was founded in 1892 as the Grafton Cooperative Cheese Company, which converted surplus milk from local dairy farmers into cheese. Years later, a fire destroyed the original factory. When the Windham Foundation restored the company in the mid 1960s, a new era for the town was born. Today, quality, taste and supporting local dairy farmers, continue to serve as the hallmarks of Grafton Cheese. As part of the nonprofit Windham Foundation, much of Grafton Cheese’s annual earned income funds the Foundation’s charitable programs. More information on Grafton Village Cheese Company can be found online at graftonvillagecheese.com.

About the Windham Foundation

Headquartered in Grafton, Vermont, the Windham Foundation (http://www.windham-foundation.org/) is an operating foundation engaged in philanthropic, charitable and educational activities. Since its inception in 1963, its mission is to promote the vitality of Grafton and Vermont’s rural communities through its philanthropic and educational programs and its subsidiaries whose operations contribute to these endeavors. The Foundation is the owner of Grafton Village Cheese Co., the Grafton Inn and the Retreat Farm.