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Best Online Cheese Subscriptions and Delivery Services for 2024
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Best Online Cheese Subscriptions and Delivery Services for 2024

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Where is the best place to buy cheese online?

As a diehard fan of artisan cheese, I must first state categorically that the best place to buy cheese, online or otherwise, is your local dairies or independent cheesemongers. These sources often offer high-quality options made with care and passion. However, sometimes there are cheese needs that demand more: a more adventurous selection, national shipping, easy gifting, recognizable brands, or the ability to subscribe to a program that brings cheese into your life every month.

Read more: Store cheese properly and you extend its shelf life by days, even weeks

Many of the leading dairies of varying sizes offer the option to buy their products online. To help you enjoy greater reach and the best value, here are eight of the best places to buy cheese online – as a gift, for entertaining, or simply to restock your cheese drawer.

The best places to buy cheese online

Goldbelly is a comprehensive grocery delivery service that not only delivers cheese, but also delivers well-known foods from restaurants and markets across the country to your door. Several of America’s major cheese producers also deliver through Goldbelly, including Cowgirl Creamery, Rogue Creamery, and Cypress Grove, as well as several smaller, artisan producers.

There are also plenty of cheese-like options or by-products available, such as cheesecake, cheese balls, pimento cheese, and even queso fundido. You can’t mix and match between manufacturers here, but you do have several choices per manufacturer as to the amount and type of cheese you want, and whether cheese toppings are included. A bonus to both: Goldbelly lets you choose your delivery date. And if you sign up for emails, you’ll get $20 off your first order.

(I’m happy to report that Goldbelly, like all the other vendors on this list, uses environmentally conscious packaging where all components are either recyclable or biodegradable. Not a Styrofoam cooler in sight. Go Cheese!)

Based in New York and now owned by Kroger, Murray’s Cheese is one of America’s largest cheese retailers. Full disclosure: I’m a wine and cheese instructor at Murray’s in Manhattan, but that also means I know firsthand how vast their selection is and how carefully they handle their cheeses.

Head to Murray’s if you’re looking for a specific cheese but aren’t sure you can find it locally. It’s great for just browsing and buying cheese if you want to snag a few pieces for your fridge from the world’s best producers, available in half-pound pieces. It’s also a good place to get whole wheels of cheese for a cheese wedding cake. Murray’s also offers gift boxes and subscriptions that range from mild to wild. You can also sign up for email and text alerts and get 15% off your first order.

Boarderie does something no one else does: pre-cut, pre-sorted cheese and charcuterie boards on a national shipping scale. (It also caught Oprah’s attention, by the way.) The boards are packaged superbly, with little bamboo compartments to keep the various components from tainting each other. All you have to do to serve them is unwrap them. The cheese and charcuterie are more upscale than conventional, but cater to pretty much any palate.

Boarderie’s boards also include a cool selection of sides, including unique offerings like Thai candied ginger and prosecco liqueurs, so you don’t have to buy these bites in bulk just to put a handful on your plate.

Your order will include a handy instruction card describing each element. The boards can be customized for different occasions. Express shipping is included in the price and you can choose a specific delivery date with this service.

A relative newcomer to the online cheese scene, AppyHour is a subscription service that sends monthly boxes based on a geographic or conceptual theme. The boxes contain two types of cheese, plus charcuterie and sides. (A promotion currently available also offers “free brie for a year,” meaning your box will also include a serving of creamy brie.)

Unlike Curdbox above, the artisan cheeses were a little more approachable, but deliveries always include both cured meat and cheese. I also liked that all components, including the sides, were portioned for a single cheese board and carefully packaged with Formaticum products.

AppyHour has included my favorite accessory from every package I’ve received: Effie’s homemade oatmeal cookies. These taste great with cheese and also fit well with the Irish theme of my box. The service also sends you the menu for each box in advance, so you can opt in or out month after month.

There’s really nothing you can’t get on Amazon, and cheese is no exception. Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh are both accessible through the Amazon interface and offer different options for different needs.

At Whole Foods Market, a cheese legend leads the cheese program, and the company offers a wide variety of artisanal cheeses, including local varieties like those you’d find in the store.

Amazon Fresh has its own Amazon Aplenty brand of traditional, family-friendly blocks and other cheese pieces and wedges to fill your cheese drawer with. Feel like making a spontaneous visit? Both programs offer same-day delivery with a 2-hour delivery window, and you’ll receive your cheese with no packaging to recycle.

Harry & David is one of the most trusted names in gourmet food delivery, making it an ideal choice for cheese gifts, especially for those who like cheese but don’t eat much more than Gouda and Cheddar. One exception is the company’s award-winning Cheese Sampler Set, which delves a little deeper into the cheese world for more adventurous palates.

Harry & David offers gift baskets of charcuterie and cheese, including a plethora of sides, at prices that put them on the most affordable side of this list. With the option to add “something extra” to any of your gift baskets, you can add the company’s signature Moose Munch to your cheese order, which you’ll definitely want to do. (Pair it with blue cheese. Trust me.) You can also order boarderie gifts through Harry & David.

Curdbox is a no-brainer subscription service that sends you three cheeses plus three cheese accompaniments each month. The cheeses and accompaniments are rather adventurous, but I suppose you have to keep an open mind and test your palate month after month, making this ideal for cheese explorers looking for unique finds.

My box was a symphony of great flavors: a strong mixed milk cheddar, a Quadrupel beer cheese and a lesser-known, meaty alpine-style cheese called Hoch Ybrig.

Also on the side to accompany these bold cheeses were pepper pretzels, crunchy mushroom chips, and bacon jalapeño mustard. Along with the goods, Curdbox also sends pairing information and a link to a Spotify playlist, blog post, and podcast to get you in the cheesy mood. The cost is $75 per month including shipping for a box of three cheeses plus accessories. Discounts are available if you pay multiple months in advance.

Described as the “online foodie store,” Michigan-based Zingerman’s is an all-in-one shop when it comes to cheese and the foods that pair with it. There’s even a tab in its dropdown shopping menu labeled “Cheese Companions.” And to be clear, nearly everything Zingerman’s offers—from sausages to breads and pastries to vinegars and oils—could easily be called a cheese companion.

As for cheese, you can snag pieces of mostly American and Italian artisan cheeses, as well as Zingerman’s Dairy selections. You can also sign up for a quarterly delivery from the Cheese Club or customize a cheese gift box, which can also include one of Zingerman’s legendary loaves of bread.

The quarterly cheese club costs $325 and there are customizable gift boxes ranging from $95 to $195.

For more delicious dishes online, check out our list of the best food delivery services and the best places to order premium cuts of meat.

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