Marn Vom Berge Cheese – 5.5 oz

Goot Essa Marn Vom Berge Cheese is a gourmet, pasteurized goat milk bloomy rind cheese. This all-natural, hand-made, cheese has all the rich grass notes of a highland pasture combined with tangy cream and a mild earthy finish of light mushroom. The locally produced milk is turned into cheese in our cheese shop using a traditional German-Swiss recipe which was originally used when cheese needed to be made in a hurry. We produce Marn Vom Berge as 5.5 oz logs and age it for about 6 weeks. We store it in the same caves as we do our Der Wiechen Gehl Cheese as the rind development is similar, but we add a light ash coating to the rind.  Marn Vom Berge translates to “Mary from over the mountain” in Pennsylvania Dutch.  In this case, Mary is the shepherd’s daughter.

Marn Vom Berge Cheese adds the refreshing tang of goat to beet salads, lettuce salads, grape salads, and watermelon salads.  As canapes on French bread alone or with shallots on crackers. Sweet and tangy jams, dark berry compote, and cherries also pair exceptionally well as do cured meats. This cheese is excellent on a cheese board, either as an appetizer or dessert.  This bloomly also pairs well with a wide range of whites, from sparkling wines to semi-sweet Riesling, but less intense red wines. Recommended beers include Saison, Schwarzbier, Porter and pilsners.

The goat milk used to make Marn Vom Berge Cheese is produced by a local Amish farming family. They have  a flock of 50 milking goats.

Goot Essa—good food in Pennsylvania Dutch.