'It's like crack': The Aussie cheese the US can't get enough of

Once store owners in the United States try a jar of Gerard and Susan Tuck's Chevoo cheese they want to stock it.

"We have a phenomenal hit rate when people taste the product," Gerard Tuck tells Fairfax Media in San Francisco. "I would say it would be over 90 per cent of stores."

Tuck ran cheese distribution company Calendar Cheese Company in Australia before heading to the Stanford Graduate School of Business to study where he identified a gap in the market for Australian style marinated cheese.

"The best selling category of cheese was a trend that just didn't exist in the United States," he said.

The Tucks relocated to the United States and built their own cheese manufacturing facility in the Sonoma wine region in San Francisco's bay area.

Chevoo's cheese is made using goat's milk, marinated in extra virgin olive oil and available in range of flavours including with dill pollen and garlic, and with chilli and lemon.

Tuck says the range of more unusual flavours appeals to American palates. Read more

Cara Waters - Brisbane Times - 21 Oct 2018