Salt Spring Island Cheese

Always a must stop when over on Salt Spring! Friendly staff and tons of samples to enjoy. We always tend to leave with more cheese than we need because it’s all too good to choose from! Their little shop also had lots of olives, crackers, jams and treats to choose from as well, almost all locally sourced.

Great place to explore and take a break with a refreshing soda or hot pizza made with of course Salt Spring Island goat cheese! I ordered their salami, mushroom pizza with their tapenade cheese and it was crispy, spicy and gooey — exactly as it should be. Delicious. You can take a short tour around the perimeter of their productiom building and look at the workers making cheese. When finished, come around to the Fromage room and taste olives, cheeses, and jellies on offer.

Whoaa… There are a lot of fine, delicious, wonderfully handmade goat cheeses here. When you walk into the shop, there’s a dozen varieties of goat cheese, jams, and jellies laid out for you to sample. The cheese isn’t meant to be tasted by itself, there are recommended pairings with the locally made jams and jellies. My two favourites are the truffle goat cheese paired with champagne rose petal jelly and the lemon goat cheese with Meyer lemon marmalade. They even have postcards listing the suggested pairings.
There’s also a self-​guided tour around the factory (you can actually see the white-​suited workers processing, decorating, and packaging the cheeses through multiple windows) with signs explaining how the cheese is made. If you’re a cheese connoisseur, you gotta come here!

On my recent visit to Victoria, I went to the Public Market and found the outlet there for Salt Springs Island Cheese. What a jewel of a shop. The whole long counter of the front was lined with samples of the most wonderful cheeses, jams, olives, etc.
After coming home, we finally opened this jar of Hot Mango Jam and we were again amazed by how good it was. The absolute BEST chile jam we’ve ever had anywhere!
(Note to business and Unilocal: I am posting this on the main store site because there was no Unilocal listing for Victoria.)

As good as cheese gets. Absolutely amazing for those special appys and always of a premium quality. Not the cheapest but all handmade with care and quality. Beautifully presented and goes well with preserves, crackers, and wine. I get my fill whenever I can. Try the Ruckles type!

I’ve seen their cheese throughout the year at various farmer’s market. They do have the best Garlic goat cheese that I’ve ever tasted. I saw them at this year’s Circle Craft fair. I didn’t buy any cheese this time since I see them very often at Farmer’s Market. I love the goat cheese with a really sour jam.

This review is actually for their sport in the Victoria Public Market. They have some great cheeses, you just have decide which ones you want. They also have ice cream which was to die for! The lady who was working gave us an ice pack to keep our cheese cool while we wandered around. If you’re looking for some good cheeses, a nice snack for a picnic or some good ice cream, this is the place!

I fell in love with cheese here.
The self guided tour started out with a whole bunch of adorable chickens in a coop, with beautiful feathers in a rainbow of different colours. Further in, there was a coop full of egg chickens running around. I don’t know where the goats and sheep were though, the map said they had some!
The cheese factory had windows and posters explaining what was going on through each step of the process.
The retail store had the most amazon selection of basically every cheese, jam, jelly, chutney, and olive you could buy. They were quick to restock, as most of it got quickly devoured.
Try the fresh cheese with the Meyer lemon lavender marmalade. It’s awesome.

Salt Spring Island Cheese Company offers a great array of truly delicious cheeses made from their own herd of goats. The pretty location on Salt Spring Island includes a view of the cheese-​making process, as well as goats and chickens… when we visited families with children were having a delightful time exploring the wooded property. We had an even more delightful time tasting the gorgeous array of cheeses, including the lemon chevre/​soft goat cheese (scrumptious! beautiful!). Wooden shelving sports a wide variety of house-​made jams, salsas, and other condiments to take away and give as gifts, or perhaps even better, make that picnic lunch a memorable feast! The tastings are generous and the staff so knowledgeable — I wanted to repeat the whole visit as soon as we’d finished our register transaction!

A cheese tasting room? Sign us up. We sampled and sampled and ended up with an arm full of cheesy delights.

As Jody B. says it best, this is where you find goat cheese love. Love ~
It’s hard walking away from this place empty handed. I am not sure if this is even possible. For the die hard goat cheese fans, this is heaven. You have a good selection to choose from — from plain, to something more adventurous such as peppercorn, olive tapenade, truffle, garlic and more. If you happened to not appreciate the lovely sweet aroma and by-​product of what comes out from goat boobies, well you lucky duck, your world is not entirely over. There is a chicken liver pâté (not made in house but outsourced) which I swear by, and happy to have taken the last jar home and jellies made by Artisan Edibles fine foods. Champagne rose petal jellies, blueberry lavender jellies, raspberry cardamon jellies, rhubarb sour cherry chutney, as well as antipasto. The list goes on. I have always been a fan of AE and that’s my secret weapon to hosting memorable wine and cheese parties which my guests still talk about till this day.
Salt Spring Island Cheese sells its products at Saturday’s Farmer’s Market on the island. You can also find their products in some affiliated wineries and shops in Vancouver.
I wished I could have spent more time on the farm checking out the free-​range chicken and goats but the soggy rain deterred me from my plan. Next time. There shall be a next time.

Ever have that moment when you’re doing your recycling that you think, «I just threw out 5 empty goats cheese containers… maybe it’s time to seek help?»
(Mom, if you’re reading this you just figured out how long it’s been since i’ve sorted my recycling… i’m sorry!)
Yup. Me and Salt Spring Cheese — we like eachother. We like eachother SO much that I, being a responsible adult, totally thought 5 different types of goats cheese in a single woman’s house was an acceptable life choice. It’s not my fault, there was NO way I could choose just one! It’s Unilocaler testing gosh darnit!
White truffle, basil, lemon, olive, plain & peppercorn — goat cheese love at its finest.
I always feel better when i’m eating something I know is made on-​site so I appreciate this little place’s open door policy that allows you to snoop behind the scenes of cheese making lore. Don’t fret about the safety of the goats — not ALL the milk comes from the goats on-​site! They outsource to meet demand.
The store itself is quaint and lovely — a definite must visit when you happen to be on SSI. You can eat cheese, make faces at cute goats and be wary of the world domination chickens (I’m scared of birds guys, and these chickens — they are on a mission… I can see it in their eyes.)
The tasting room — well, let’s just say, don’t go right after lunch because you WILL try everything in the place. At least once.
And yes, the cheese is pricey but it’s worth it. Smooth, tasty cheesey goodness. Partake!

One not to miss on the island. There’s the tasting room, where you can sample all of their cheeses, olives, and spreads. There’s a lovely garden and tables where you can stop for a rest or a snack. And they’ve set up a little self guided tour around the barn and cheesery which is fun and educational. There are also chickens and goats to visit as well as a few resident dogs. I enjoyed a goat milk ice cream while resting in the garden and it was a highlight of my day. Don’t miss it.

What jack said! I agree, wonderful little place with amazing creamy cheeses.

Small but excellent little goat cheese factory and store. A pretty courtyard with tables for lounging, little goats running around, a view of the living-​room sized cheese factory through windows, and excellent artistically presented chevre for tasting and eating. really, it doesn’t get much better. i am honored to be the first to put this on Unilocal