Maytag blue....phone 800 247 2458...
https://www.maytagdairyfarms.com/
And I am pretty much an expert...if a biased one...my late husband was manager and head honcho for 35 years.
But i am not alone in my opinion.
http://www.winemag.com/2017/03/30/feeling-blue-for-cheese/

I just checked Maytag Dairy Farms and they are on line and ship second day air in (I assume) insulated containers to the US. I see that a wedge or small wheel is in the $30s but the shipping is likely to set you back some.

Lindac is a great fan of theirs. I believe that her family is directly or indirectly related, but my impression is that others here have used Maytag and were also very pleased. I'm sure that others will correct me on the details, but while we are waiting, you might want to search on Maytag in case that is a good choice for you.

oops, I knew that lindac would get here sooner or later, but I checked just before I posted and her post wasn't here yet.

Another vote for Maytag! LOVE their products!

Well then, it's unanimous. Maytag it is. I think this is the perfect gift.

lindac and all, thank you so much for your help! I am going to rest easy and believe they will love it. :)

I keep seeing lindac rave about Maytag blue, but whenever I try to shop on-line they're 'out of stock' in everything I'd want! same thing now.... Guess I'll have to go with plain 8oz wedges. :p

ETA: Lindac, how's their aged cheddar??? BF loves a *really* sharp 10-year aged cheddar that he buys locally -- always white cheddar here. How's their 7-year? does it bite back? lol!

Thanks for the info!

The Cuba Cheese Shop in Cuba, NY is currently selling a 12-year-old WI extra-sharp cheddar:

http://www.cubacheese.com

FYI, Cuba was the home of the cheddar industry for many years. It's where they used to set the price for all US cheddar nationally. They still sell some locally-produced cheddar, too, which is also very good.

I have to say, I hope the cheese is better than customer service. I placed the order on the 15th. I promptly got an email saying my order was being processed, but no tracking number or delivery info. Then I never heard another word. So I called this morning and found out it was to be delivered to my SIL by 5 today. No email has come saying it has been. I am assuming it got there, but I appreciate updates (especially when it's a gift), as I think most do. :)

Thanks...I will pass the word along....that's not what they like to hear...MDF is all about small, local, personal service...
Beth Message me privately and give me more info....this is not what they want to happen!

Can you find me on facebook? Linda Covert Campbell.

I'm not on FB linda, but there honestly isn't much more I can add. Just that when I called I spoke with a woman who was pleasant enough, asked my name and zip code, and then said it was out and would be delivered today. That's all I can tell you. :)

All I care about is an American treasure is still making a great product having gone through many hurdles...I had the same frustrating delivery with one of my bulk spice suppliers...no notice of purchase, no delivery time, still 10 days and one notice sent after five days in their office. Not here yet and it was for holiday baking to be sent so now a HappyNewYear gift. I ordered last Sunday, they did not send until Friday. Five days to process the order. Still not here. Ten days now.

All ingredients are on the counter to make my gifts. I need this order and should have known better.

In order for small and good gift/product suppliers to compete with Amazon, they need to step up their shipping methods or fail. We have all watched elder product companies fail and out of business for being stubborn holding onto past methods and not willing to get on the rather simple modern methods of shipping.

An order Sunday night, in their hands Monday morning, ships late Friday. Five days for the 'hippies' to box five bulks herb/seeds, lol. Still waiting.

Aww, so sorry to hear this sleevendog. What a shame. :/ And you're right, with Amazon around, everybody does need to get competitive.

Not to go OT, but Amazon has been losing me... their prices keep going up, their packing and shipping keeps getting worse and taking longer, and items are being shipped from too many 3rd parties. :p

ETA: sleeve, don't you have a healthfood store near you that sells in bulk? always fresh here and much cheaper than buying elsewhere.

party, I've not experienced any/much of that, yet. I've bought very few things that were 3rd party but it presented no problems so far.

All's well that ends well. She got it and said it's "delish". :)

I am guessing the woman you spoke to was a "phone answerer" not someone who dealt with deliverys. I never give a thought when I send cheese....I just assume it will go as they promised....and so far it always has.
Speaking of which....I sent cheese to a nephew....no word....but I am sure they got it and just are boorish enough to not acknowledge. In the past when I have sent stuff I have had to inquire if it got there.
Maytag was a long time getting on the computer bandwagon....I took phone orders for 7 or 8 years....going from just me....to 1 helper and then 3...to finally a crew of 8....but we still wrote the orders by hand and had no way of knowing who had ordered what before unless we went to the files.....and we filed orders on paper alphabetizing them by hand...Oh my! How things have changed!!

Oh good, glad she got it. : )

I did not mean to vent. It is what it is. I've been off this week and really wanted to get ahead on some things. Still not delivered. I ordered from a few favorite vendors that same day, the 10th, and most of Amazon came the 11th, (!!) blink of an eye.

Johnny'sSeed came Wednesday, the 13th.

I have a brilliant enormous health food store but nothing compares to MountainRoseHerb selection and freshness and price for bulk. MRH link. just glance at their alphabet 'A' list.

Linda, if I sent someone a gift they didn't acknowledge, it would be the last one. Don't send the nephew anything and then if he asks, "Where's my gift?", you can say, "Oh, you didn't get it? I ordered it and it was delivered, I guess it must have gone to the wrong person!"

My latest US Post Office fiasco was with a pair of socks. Req'd two weeks to get from Minnesota to central Wisconsin. The socks made it to the post office in the town 5 miles north of me in two days. From that post office, the socks journeyed to Florida where they apparently were soaking up sunshine for a long week or so, then decided to wend their way back north.

ci_lantro, that sounds like the saga of our windows when we were building out house extension. After a series of screw ups by the window manufacturers, I got a call that they had finally been loaded on the truck and were now on the way to Karratha. Why Karratha? I asked. That's 950 miles away. Oh, said the lady, aren't you Colleen in Karratha? Nope. I can only surmise she thought only one person named Colleen at a time ever bought windows. Cheese Louise! (See how I worked in cheese there? ;-D)

I continue to sent cheese to my nephew....because he's a good guy....with an eccentric wife. I really don't get her at all...one example...when my mother in law went into a nursing home, her daughter, mother of the non thanking nephew, didn't know what to do with her huge set of silver plated flatware...no obne really wanted it...so I said I'd take it...maybe some day a kid would need some, and put it in a bottom drawer. Fast forward several years and sister in law asks for the silverware for her other son....she took it...
Sister in law died and the eccentric nephew's wife went to help clean out her "stuff" and took lots of things>
Fast forward another year and said nephew's wife messaged me that she was sending to me some family stuff as they were downsizing ( they are 50's no kids)....and sent me the silverware....very very tarnished and what had been service for 12 only had 3 knives left....and maybe 4 soup spoons....but 12 salad forks and teaspoons. I was going to give it to a grand son in his first apartment....but he sure needs more than 3 knives. What would happen to 9 dinner knives? I asked and she just shrugged and said she didn't know!

colleenoz, just like in "Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House". lol!

Honest to God, party_music, those window people were so incompetent I thought my DH was going to have a stroke dealing with them. It was one major mistake after another, and held up our builders for weeks. In the end they admitted they had royally screwed up and refunded us $1000. I went to a different supplier, who couldn't have been more helpful, said I'd like this, this and this, and we had them by the end of the week. DH's stress levels plummeted. I was so grateful to the second supplier I took them two dozen brownies to say "thank you."

Haha. the 'non-thanking good guy nephew' and his 'eccentric wife'. Spoons usually go missing. Or at least that is what my mother said during our youth. Always missing spoons....maybe the knives were used for a screwdriver. Here and there and lost.

We found a missing Carhart work coat in the garden last Spring once the snow thawed. A favorite scarf tucked in one sleeve.

Tracking a package can be interesting. The 7lbs of bulk herbs, ordered the 10th, I finally tracked, should be here the 27th. ...off to the health food store for one item I need for baking. The rest can wait. SIL requested a re-stock of the Za'atar and garam masala I make. I use traditional hyssop, as well as thyme, some lime peel powder and lemongrass, (not traditional.)

I am biting my tongue so hard I may forever speak with a lisp!...Just got a beautiful tin of biscotti from the "non thanking" nephew....And I will send an effusive thankyou immediately! Seriously...biscotti from Enricos in Pittsburgh...as good as I make!!

And....I use my sterling everyday....always have. My kids and husband have been trained to treat it well....but once I found a big serving spoon in the sand box....and a salad fork in the compost!! It had been there easily all winter....and shone bright when I fork turned the pile!! I always count silver after a big party, before I take out the garbage. One new years morning as I was staggering around surveying the mountain of plates and glasses, the doorbell rang and it was a vet who had been at the party on his way to the office aas he was on call, with a spoon he had left in his pocket, because he knew I would be counting the silver!!
And I have no idea how you could lose 9 dinner knives!!

My younger pup is sock obsessed. Not a chewer at all. He even matches them....needs both and takes them places like a pacifier. When I pulled out the two bedroom reading chairs, (he sleeps in one), to let the robots work behind them, I found a solid wedge of socks in the corner, probably 3 dozen, lol. Sock disappearing problem solved....

Love Maytag, too!