![]() 9, music by Llorna and food cart TBA Sept. 26, music by Bri Cauz Duo and food by The Dipper Sept. Here's the upcoming schedule: Sunday, Aug. The weekly event, at 27007 Briggs Hill Road, features mimosas made with Sweet Cheeks wine until 6 p.m., paired with cuisine from changing local food trucks and accompanied by live music from 2 p.m. Although they don’t start serving them until noon, good life is in abundance on Mimosa Sundays at Sweet Cheeks Winery & Vineyard, in the scenic rolling hills near Crow. Nothing says “the good life” and “it’s OK to drink before noon” quite like a mimosa. 7-9.), even if I don’t haul them there in a rumble seat. Better yet, I can continue the tradition with my own children (it's almost time once again for the Bandon Cranberry Festival, returning this Sept. Now, I don't mean to end this on a cheesy note, but it warms my heart to think that some of the world’s very best cheeses originate from almost the very spot where I once sampled so many in my childhood. For Eugene-area locals not likely to make the almost three-hour drive to visit the creamery, Face Rock cheeses also are available at many grocery stores here, as well as the weekly Lane County Farmers Market. “We need to win a few more of these things, and people will know we’re here.”īut even before this most recent five-medal haul, there was no question that people have come to know Face Rock Creamery, based on the crowds I’ve seen at the factory store during occasional visits in recent years.įace Rock Creamery is at 680 2nd St. “It does wonders for your business,” head cheesemaker Brad Sinko said then in reference to the boost an ACS honor can bring. I wrote about Face Rock Creamery for The Register-Guard's Tastings section in 2014, after a blistering first two years in which it won two first-place ACS awards in the flavored cheese curds category. Other Oregon winners included the Tillamook County Creamery Association, which claimed four medals including gold in the aged cheddar category for Tillamook's 3 Year Vintage Extra Sharp White Cheddar Rogue Creamery of Central Point (three medals) Ochoa’s Queseria of Albany (two medals) and Briar Rose Creamery of Dundee (one medal). Face Rock Creamery, which opened in 2013 to revive artisanal cheesemaking in Bandon more than a decade after the old factory shut down in 2002, won five ACS medals - including gold for its Clothbound Cheddar, which was up against some of the world’s most iconic handcrafted cheeses in the cloth-wrapped category. This came to mind when I saw the results of the recent 2018 American Cheese Society Judging & Competition, in essence the Oscars of the cheese biz. I still prefer my cheeses more mature, richer and more crumbly, although now I can appreciate a good curd. But I thought some of the old guys in the car club were nuts, the way they salivated over the fresh cheese curds that were salty, slimy on the outside and so squeaky inside, you felt it in your skull when you bit into them. We'd line up inside the factory store, along with the throngs in town for the festival, to watch cheesemakers at work behind the windows and sample all the delicious little cheese bites on toothpick after toothpick. My brother and I rode to and fro wrapped in blankets and tucked into the rumble seat of their 1928 Model A Ford coupe, awed by the al fresco journey through the Coast Range but thawed only hours later after the marine air stopped slapping us about the face and neck.ĭespite all the hoopla surrounding local cranberries once we arrived in Bandon (which also boasts the best beaches in Oregon, by the way), I ended up associating the place with cheese as much as anything thanks to our stops at the old Bandon Cheese Factory on the way in and out of town. ![]() One of my best childhood memories is tagging along with my grandparents on their annual car-club trek from Roseburg to Oregon's south coast for the Bandon Cranberry Festival.
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