Austrian Cheese

Austria's location amongst the Alps has long influenced their milk and cheese production with the practice of housing the dairy cows in the valleys in winter and then moving them up to higher plains during the spring and summer months. When compared to other Alpine countries, Austria's cheese-producing area is really focussed mainly in Vorarlberg, in the western-most part of the country adjacent to Switzerland. Bregenzerwald, a high mountain area in Vorarlberg and where we source our ALP BERGKAESE, is the most active cheese-producing area in Austria and its three-step-agriculture process has been submitted to UNESCO as a world heritage site.