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Sonoma Cheese Factory
The Sonoma Cheese Factory is a cheese producer and specialty food store with a wine shop and café in Sonoma, California in the United States.
The Sonoma Cheese Factory is located on the former site of the home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Casa Grande, which was built in 1835. The home burned down in 1867. Between 1888 and 1941, the property housed a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, and a feed mill. By 1944, the buildings were demolished.
Born in Stazzema, Italy in 1886, when Celso Viviani was 24 years old he moved from Italy to Sonoma, California, where his brother lived. Viviani worked at a local quarry and managed a distillery at Sebastiani Vineyards. When Prohibition began, the Sebastiani Vineyards stopped producing wine and Viviani started to make cheese at the now defunct Sonoma Mission Creamery. The Sonoma Mission Creamery was founded by Joseph Vella and John Iacono in 1915. While learning to make cheese, Viviani met Joseph Vella's younger brother, Gaetano "Tom" Vella. The two men became friends and decided, after their training was complete, to start their own creamery: Sonoma Valley Creamery in 1931.
Sonoma Valley Creamery became one of the first companies in Sonoma Valley to only make cheese. The Creamery was located at a former pre-prohibition brewery in downtown Sonoma. Eventually, the name changed from Sonoma Valley Creamery to Sonoma Valley Cheese Factory and finally, the current incarnation: Sonoma Cheese Factory. In its inaugural year, the Factory had $58,000 in sales.
The Factory started making hard cheese of the Italian variety. They also produced cottage cheese and cream cheese. Viviani and Vella expanded production, purchasing a production plant in nearby Marin County and one in the state of Oregon. They decided to open a new headquarters in downtown Sonoma in 1944.
Construction of the Sonoma Cheese Factory started in 1944 and was completed by 1945. The building included areas for retail sales, offices and cheese production. The building was designed by Pietro G. Canali, an Italian-American architect.
As the company prepared to open the new facility, Viviani and Vella decided to go their separate ways professionally, with Viviani opening the new facility and Vella eventually founding the Vella Cheese Company at the old Sonoma Valley Creamery building, where the family-owned Vella Cheese Company continues to operate today.
During the mid to late 1940s, Sonoma Cheese Factory sold cottage cheese and cream cheese to the Kraft Foods. Eventually, the lack of easy access to fresh milk, due to dairy farm industrialization, caused the Viviani's to focus strictly on semi-hard cheese. It was during this time when they created Sonoma Jack, their most famous cheese.
Sonoma Cheese Factory
The Sonoma Cheese Factory is a cheese producer and specialty food store with a wine shop and café in Sonoma, California in the United States.
The Sonoma Cheese Factory is located on the former site of the home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Casa Grande, which was built in 1835. The home burned down in 1867. Between 1888 and 1941, the property housed a blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, and a feed mill. By 1944, the buildings were demolished.
Born in Stazzema, Italy in 1886, when Celso Viviani was 24 years old he moved from Italy to Sonoma, California, where his brother lived. Viviani worked at a local quarry and managed a distillery at Sebastiani Vineyards. When Prohibition began, the Sebastiani Vineyards stopped producing wine and Viviani started to make cheese at the now defunct Sonoma Mission Creamery. The Sonoma Mission Creamery was founded by Joseph Vella and John Iacono in 1915. While learning to make cheese, Viviani met Joseph Vella's younger brother, Gaetano "Tom" Vella. The two men became friends and decided, after their training was complete, to start their own creamery: Sonoma Valley Creamery in 1931.
Sonoma Valley Creamery became one of the first companies in Sonoma Valley to only make cheese. The Creamery was located at a former pre-prohibition brewery in downtown Sonoma. Eventually, the name changed from Sonoma Valley Creamery to Sonoma Valley Cheese Factory and finally, the current incarnation: Sonoma Cheese Factory. In its inaugural year, the Factory had $58,000 in sales.
The Factory started making hard cheese of the Italian variety. They also produced cottage cheese and cream cheese. Viviani and Vella expanded production, purchasing a production plant in nearby Marin County and one in the state of Oregon. They decided to open a new headquarters in downtown Sonoma in 1944.
Construction of the Sonoma Cheese Factory started in 1944 and was completed by 1945. The building included areas for retail sales, offices and cheese production. The building was designed by Pietro G. Canali, an Italian-American architect.
As the company prepared to open the new facility, Viviani and Vella decided to go their separate ways professionally, with Viviani opening the new facility and Vella eventually founding the Vella Cheese Company at the old Sonoma Valley Creamery building, where the family-owned Vella Cheese Company continues to operate today.
During the mid to late 1940s, Sonoma Cheese Factory sold cottage cheese and cream cheese to the Kraft Foods. Eventually, the lack of easy access to fresh milk, due to dairy farm industrialization, caused the Viviani's to focus strictly on semi-hard cheese. It was during this time when they created Sonoma Jack, their most famous cheese.