Friday Night Meet the Cheesemaker Gala
The signature event of the festival! This popular event takes place inside the elegant ballroom at Monona Terrace. You’ll shake hands and talk shop with more than 40 Wisconsin cheesemakers and local food artisans, sample more than 200 original cheeses and artisan foods, enjoy butlered appetizers with your favorite wine or microbrew, and tap your toes to Point Five, an Americana acoustic band featuring Uplands Cheesemaker Andy Hatch. Afterward, purchase your favorites at the Metcalfe Marketplace booth and take home a piece of Wisconsin.
Tickets: $34. All tickets sold in advance.
Participating Cheesemakers & Food Artisans in 2012 included:
- Alemar Cheese Company
- Ames Farm
- Arla Foods
- BelGioioso Cheese
- Bleu Mont Dairy
- Capri Cheese
- Caprine Supreme
- Carr Valley Cheese
- Caves of Faribault
- Cedar Grove Cheese
- Cesar’s Cheese
- Chalet Cheese Cooperative
- Clock Shadow Creamery
- Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese
- Dreamfarm
- Edelweiss Creamery
- Emmi Roth USA
- Fantome Farm
- Farmhouse Kitchens Cooperative
- Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier
- Harmony Specialty Dairy
- Henning Cheese
- Hidden Springs Creamery
- Holland’s Family Cheese
- Klondike Cheese
- Koepke Family Farms
- LaClare Farms Specialties
- Lactalis USA
- Meister Cheese
- Mighty Fine Food
- Montchevre
- Mt. Sterling Co-op Creamery
- Noble View Creamery
- Organic Valley
- Otter Creek Organic Cheese
- Pasture Pride Cheese
- Potter’s Crackers
- Red Barn Family Farms
- Roelli Cheese
- Sartori
- Sassy Cow Creamery
- Shepherd’s Ridge Creamery
- Sugar Brook Farms
- Quince & Apple
- Uplands Cheese
- Underground Meats
- Widmer’s Cheese Cellars
- Wisconsin Sheep Dairy Cooperative