CELEBRATING CHEESE
When you love great cheese and fine wine like we do, you MUST be able to celebrate them both with a good cheese party!
We started our annual party in 2004 in Colorado and it grew year to year until our arrival in the Cheese Desert. We are looking to restart the tradition in the hopes of pushing our smelly and tasty influence beyond our own borders!
Essential items to the Wensing & Reddicks cheese party:
12X12 flooring slates: We purchased these slates for use as plates for our guest, sealing them with oil. They offer a rustic base to the meal.
Crusty Artisan Sourdough Bread: Each guest had a half loaf of bread standing on their slate for pulling apart, dipping, and using as a base for cheeses and meats.
Fruit and Meat Trays: Call me crazy, but I like making trays. We spare no expense in order to provide a bountiful and exotic spread of fruits and meats to temper the extreme variety in tastes from the cheeses and wines.
Tasting Notebooks: Each year we prepare a tasting booklet as a menu that offers descriptions and areas for tasting notes for all wine and cheeses offered. Our booklets contain descriptions, aging charts, and vendor information. Our guests can then take them home and use them for future shopping.
Rental glasses: Renting tasting glasses for the wine is a hassle-free luxury. Instead of cleaning out the same glasses all night long (been there – done that) we simply rinse the glasses and put them back in the box.
Cheese Variety: While cheese lovers may argue that too many flavors will compete and cause issues, we are believers that proper balance between fruits and drinks enable one to try a wide variety of flavors. That being said, we try to provide a variety of cheese that will test every level of cheese lover; from the simple creams to the most complex stinkers.
We started our annual party in 2004 in Colorado and it grew year to year until our arrival in the Cheese Desert. We are looking to restart the tradition in the hopes of pushing our smelly and tasty influence beyond our own borders!
Essential items to the Wensing & Reddicks cheese party:
12X12 flooring slates: We purchased these slates for use as plates for our guest, sealing them with oil. They offer a rustic base to the meal.
Crusty Artisan Sourdough Bread: Each guest had a half loaf of bread standing on their slate for pulling apart, dipping, and using as a base for cheeses and meats.
Fruit and Meat Trays: Call me crazy, but I like making trays. We spare no expense in order to provide a bountiful and exotic spread of fruits and meats to temper the extreme variety in tastes from the cheeses and wines.
Tasting Notebooks: Each year we prepare a tasting booklet as a menu that offers descriptions and areas for tasting notes for all wine and cheeses offered. Our booklets contain descriptions, aging charts, and vendor information. Our guests can then take them home and use them for future shopping.
Rental glasses: Renting tasting glasses for the wine is a hassle-free luxury. Instead of cleaning out the same glasses all night long (been there – done that) we simply rinse the glasses and put them back in the box.
Cheese Variety: While cheese lovers may argue that too many flavors will compete and cause issues, we are believers that proper balance between fruits and drinks enable one to try a wide variety of flavors. That being said, we try to provide a variety of cheese that will test every level of cheese lover; from the simple creams to the most complex stinkers.
PARTY PIX from 2005-2009
Brought to you from deep within the Cheese Desert: Population 2 – Kelly Wensing & Tommy Reddicks
