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Dry Jack Special Reserve
The Vella Cheese Company has
been involved in making cheeses since Tom Vella first worked at the Sonoma
Mission Creamery in the 1920s. In 1931, the Vella Cheese Company was founded,
and the following decades would see it grow and expand even against such odds as
suffering through World War II when the company was forced to work around the
clock at full capacity. In 1981, Tom Vella's children started running the
operation, and Ig Vella is now at the helm, maintaining the same high standards
of quality cheesemaking that his father set over seventy years ago.
Vella's distinctive version of aged
Monterey Jack, Dry Jack is a hard cheese with a delicately brittle consistency.
After being coated in oil, black pepper, and cocoa, the wheels are aged for
eighteen to twenty-four months, and during that time, the cheese develops a
sweet flavor, reminiscent of butterscotch.
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