Family dairy making Handkäse in Hüttenberg since 1959; its site calls the town Hesse's Handkäse capital. Visitors can buy at the factory shop on weekdays or from the 24-hour vending machine.
Cheeses: Hessischer Handkäse
Website: handkaese.com
Apple wine is the usual drink with Handkäse, and German Wikipedia names dry white wine for areas such as Rheinhessen and the Palatinate. A dry, high-acid Riesling meets the onion and vinegar marinade with acidity of its own.
Address: Weserstraße 1, 35625 Hüttenberg, Rheingau
Demeter farm with 50 dairy cows and its own raw-milk cheese dairy, in use since 1989, between the Taunus heights and the Rheingau. Its cheese is sold in Eltville and at the Wiesbaden market.
Cheeses: Zornickel (white-mould soft cheese, Camembert style), Brie-style soft cheese, Zedoner (white mould and red smear), Zornella (semi-hard cheese), Tomme Zorn
Visiting: farm shop on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, stall at the Wiesbaden Wochenmarkt on Wednesday and Saturday mornings
Handkäse dairy in Groß-Gerau, a family business since 1862, which calls itself Germany's oldest sour-milk dairy. Handkäse is sold at the dairy, which publishes no opening hours.
Cheeses: Hessischer Handkäse
Visiting: buy Handkäse directly at the dairy (its site says Handkäse is not suited to shipping)
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