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Mars Needs Cheese
Apr. 14th, 2011 02:34 pmI'm back from Wisconsin, and tomorrow's post will be about why the iPad will be the must-have for every business traveler in the Free World. (Do we even refer to the "free world" anymore?) But today, I want to talk about cheese.
Many a Chicagoan has driven north on I-94 into Wisconsin for many a reason. For me, most of those trips have included a visit to Mars Cheese Castle. The cheese "castle" is a cramped single-story building decorated in what's charitably described as "early American Legion post" style less than 50 yards from I-94 just north of Kenosha. It is, (for me at least) the last stop in Wisconsin for good cheese, sausage and Wisconsin wine. Here's a picture of the place.
Kinda cheesy, right? Well, not any more. Due to a road-widening project, the Castle moved west (about 100 yards or so) and got rebuilt. Here's a picture from my cell phone today:
The new Castle is actually, well, castle-like, in a modern, Castle-By-Disney way. It's huge, clean, well-lit and has even more stuff to buy. So buy I did. Here's the wine choices I made:
They are, left to right: Three Lakes Winery cranberry wine (semi-sweet, goes good with turkey or pork chops) Door Peninsula Winery's White Zinfandel (a good summer wine) and a new (to me) selection of Simon Creek Winery's Untouchable Red. The Simon Creek story is that Al Capone made an offer on the land that the winery is on. Apparently the offer could be refused.
Tomorrow is back to work.
Many a Chicagoan has driven north on I-94 into Wisconsin for many a reason. For me, most of those trips have included a visit to Mars Cheese Castle. The cheese "castle" is a cramped single-story building decorated in what's charitably described as "early American Legion post" style less than 50 yards from I-94 just north of Kenosha. It is, (for me at least) the last stop in Wisconsin for good cheese, sausage and Wisconsin wine. Here's a picture of the place.
Kinda cheesy, right? Well, not any more. Due to a road-widening project, the Castle moved west (about 100 yards or so) and got rebuilt. Here's a picture from my cell phone today:
The new Castle is actually, well, castle-like, in a modern, Castle-By-Disney way. It's huge, clean, well-lit and has even more stuff to buy. So buy I did. Here's the wine choices I made:
They are, left to right: Three Lakes Winery cranberry wine (semi-sweet, goes good with turkey or pork chops) Door Peninsula Winery's White Zinfandel (a good summer wine) and a new (to me) selection of Simon Creek Winery's Untouchable Red. The Simon Creek story is that Al Capone made an offer on the land that the winery is on. Apparently the offer could be refused.
Tomorrow is back to work.
