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Vella Cheese Company
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A Sonoma cheesemaker that dates handmade cheese in town to 1931 and still lists a Second Street East shop on its own site.
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Vella is a town creamery in Sonoma, not a coastal farmstead. The company’s site dates the work to 1931 and presents Monterey Jack, Dry Jack, cheddar, and Italian styles as handmade cheese from local milk 1. The contact page gives the store as 315 Second Street East, Sonoma, CA 95476 2.
The producer currently presents the retail store as open.
Dry Jack is an aging and moisture problem: a Jack-style paste taken far enough that it grates. That is Affinage as much as fresh cheese. Milk is Milk; the county is Sonoma County. Other North Bay cheese plants are Cowgirl Creamery and Marin French Cheese Co..
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- creamery
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- Operating
- Place
- Sonoma
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315 Second Street East, Sonoma, CA, 95476
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- Vella Cheese Company — Vella Cheese Company — Producer site: handmade in Sonoma since 1931; retail store presented as open on this page as of verification. Do not import closure reports from newspapers.
- Contact Us or Visit Us — Vella Cheese Company — Vella Cheese Company — Producer contact page: 315 Second Street East, Sonoma, CA 95476. Omit hours and telephone from place pages.
Updated 2026-08-26. gg:place:vella-cheese · CC BY 4.0
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