Handeck

Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese's Handeck cheese is a hand crafted washed rind cow's milk cheese that is produced using the same methods as a typical Swiss mountain style cheese. It is available at 24 months old and for December we offer a 2 - 4 year old version. It is delicately aged on cedar wood planks adding robust flavors to the cheese.

It is a drier hard cheese with very rich and complex flavors and nutty overtones. All of the milk used comes from Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese's family dairy farm. It pairs well with red wines and also dark roasted beers.

Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheese is a small artisan cheese plant nestled within the rolling hills of Gunn's Hill Rd., in Oxford County, Ontario.  The cheeses produced at Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheese are truly unique although you can taste the Swiss influence from techniques and recipes Shep learned while making cheese in the town of Handeck, in the Swiss Alps. The milk used to create the cheeses comes from the neighbouring family dairy farm, Friesvale Farms, where the finest Canadian milk is produced. To ensure cheeses that are of top quality and taste Gunn's Hill Artisan Cheeses are hand crafted using traditional cheese-making methods.