Article: The days of wine and cheeses. (wine and goat cheese manufacturing in Hawaii Island)

Crops such as macadamia nuts and coffee are familiar members of Hawaii's diversified ag family. On the Big Island, however, two enterprising businesses have extended that family into the realm of the upscale. In Puna, a husband-and-wife team is producing gourmet goat cheeses. Not far away, the veterinarian founder of Volcano Winery is concocting brews from grapes, passion fruit, rhubarb, plum, guava and starfruit for statewide consumption. La Belle France, take note.

Say Cheese

It was after the goat cheese contest at a Colorado convention of goat lovers in 1986 that Steve and Karin Sayre decided to launch a cheese-making operation in the backwoods of Puna. The ...

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