oolite cheese company

...that is the question. So, in Manti, Utah there are not a great deal of things to really keep you occupied while attending the Mormon Miracle Pageant but the Oolite Cheese Company is a little treasure if you like boutique, artisan cheeses. Rachel Wilcox, the proprietor, is a gracious host and she will give you the skinny on how to make cheese with a small tour. She and her husband Joel moved from Southern California back to Utah...to make cheese...not just any cheese mind you but sheep's milk cheese.Who would have thought that those obnoxious sheep would produce enough milk to make a milkshake let alone cheese. But produce they do and wonderful cheeses are the product. The Oolite Cheese Company combines the tasty sheep's milk with the right cultures and uses a local limestone composite, Oolite, as the bacterial catalyst. The results are well-defined cheeses that do not disappoint. They may have even discovered a new, yet to be discovered, mold variety. One of the best parts of the experience is having Rachel tell the tale of how their individual cheeses got their names. They even produce a Penicillium roqueforti variety that is quite deliciousWith the emphasis on local production, the sheep's milk is from a nearby sheep dairy (my cousin's farm to be exact but I have no interest in this venture).The Oolite Cheese Company doesn't have a great deal of product on hand and there isn't much of a "shop." But, you will find a "homey" atmosphere welcoming you to their neck of the woods and their great cheese experiment. You can check them out at http://www.oolitecheesecompany.com/