Rumiano Cheese Co

They’ve relocated downtown in an antique store. Higher prices but better selection and still wonderful cheese.

The factory is still open from what we were told, but they no longer sell cheese at the factory. Now it is sold in a cute little shop that has consignment antiques. Wonderful atmosphere, wonderful customer service. I am excited to get my cheeses home and try making some bread with the Asiago, making a salad with the fresh Feta, and just enjoying the smoked cheddar. Don’t be like us and drive by searching endlessly for a factory and something that screams cheese, you won’t find it.

WOW what an interesting find.
You will think you are lost finding this place.
As you enter the ‘retail’ area you will think you are arriving
for a day at the work!!! Finding your way
thru cold door flaps… way in the back past women in hair
nets…there it is… a cooler, counter with scale, and adding machine.
Wow what year is this?
Some of the photo’s posted here on Unilocal I think are from Crescent City or other because the place I stopped today is NOT those photo’s…fyi! LOL
Don’t expect tastings… seriously good values!
Butter, nice block of Parmigiano Reggiano, Lavender Jack,
sharp Cheddar, Jalapeño Jack…
All for $ 15!

OUTSTANDING cheeses, unbelievable prices. You can find some of their cheeses in local groceries; the dry jack is a delight.

As of late 2014 I believe this store is no longer there. There is a vintage antique store in town that sells the discount Rumiano — as in I am working through a 3 pound slab of pepato we scored for $ 13. Call Rumiano for more info.
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Cheese loving road trippers, if you read nothing else: bring a cooler loaded with ice packs…
I am SO glad I thought to see what was in Willows when making a pit stop (not to be confused with the Olive Pit stop you make in I5 at Corning).
I’d asked a local, after seeing these reviews, if the Rumiano cheese factory store was worth visiting… And were the prices really half of what you see in stores. She replied negatory: and boy was she wrong.
Just a windy mile or so off the Willows freeway exit through some fields sits the distribution center of California’s oldest cheese making family business. I arrived just as they were opening, on a hot summer day when the morning was lovely with birds flying around. (I even got to see a sparrow attack a crow, and it was fun greeting the cheeserati coming to work.)
To my delight, yes, the cheese is sold at wholesale prices — I got about 8 slabs of cheese for $ 25. Super premium cheese liked aged jack cheese studded with whole peppercorns, smoked mozzarella, smoked aged jack cheese. A highlight is the old school down to earth nature (your kids may see their first adding machine!). Totally friendly folks.
Bring a cooler and load up on some fabulous cheese that’s made in crescent City using milk from grass fed cows.
If you’re driving north you can picnic in any number of beautiful stops in the mountains around Lake Shasta. So excited to discover this new I5 food adventure!

Very yummy cheese! I think I might go get some pepper jack from the fridge!

I love going up here before a party to stock up on cheese. Their Crescent City location has more of a ‘store’ this one is a refrigerator in the shipping office but I am always happy to go there. Not only do they have their own cheeses (try their dry jack) but they also repackage forein cheeses for local grocery stores and have them available. Their selection can change depending on what they are packaging at that time. I think it is great we have a local cheese maker able to support two locations and it is always a fun trek north. Bring your cash however, they dont have a credit card machine.