The Best Cheese Boxes to Gift this Holiday Season

Cheese boxes make great holiday gifts. Trust us, we’re professionals.

It may only be November, but the sleigh bells tend to jingle earlier each year. Which can only mean one thing: It’s time to start thinking about which gifts you’re going to give friends and family at holiday gatherings this year.

Luckily, your friends at culture happen to be excellent gift givers. Especially when it comes to gifts of the dairy variety.

Be the life of the party this year—shop our cheese box picks below.

Our Thanksgiving Pick: Perrystead Creamery’s Thanksgiving Collection Cheese Box

Are you in charge of bringing pickings to this year’s Thanksgiving table? Consider a Perrystead Creamery spread. The regular and deluxe iterations of this gift box come in at under $100 and include an exclusive holiday cheese, Hay Now!, which is aged on rosemary sprigs. (Yum!) In addition, you’ll receive several acclaimed cheeses from the creamery such as Intergalactic, a 2024 ACS Gold winner.

Pick up this box in person in Pennsylvania or get it shipped in time for Turkey Day—the cutoff date to place orders is November 24.

Our Hostess Gift Pick: Cheese Grotto Piatto & Marin French Cheese Holiday Bundle

We love this set because it’s not only a great host gift, but an interactive one at that. Building the cheese grotto is a simple process and the Piatto is compact and cute enough to display on a countertop without taking up too much precious real estate.

The bundle comes with three petite cheeses by Marin French Cheese—a Camembert, Truffle Brie, and Garlic & Pepper Brie. Plus, this is an entry point into learning about aging cheeses. Which means whoever you give this to will never leave a wedge molding in plastic at the back of the fridge again. (Hopefully.)

Our Secret Santa/White Elephant Pick: Crave Cheese Samplers

The amount of cheese you get for $25 is superb, making this a budget-friendly Secret Santa gift. This box contains cheddar cheese curds, marinated fresh mozzarella, two containers of mascarpone, and two coils of Farmers Rope string cheese. In terms of White Elephant, this is the kind of gift you try to steal back before the end of the game … especially after you win a tin of your great-aunt’s hard-as-bricks caramel popcorn.

Our Subscription Pick: Lady & Larder Monthly Cheese Club

Our subscription pick happens to be women-owned too. Twin sisters Boo and Sarah Simms run their cheese, wine, and meat shop out of the Los Angeles area. Their monthly cheese club offers options to tag wine or charcuterie meats onto your orders and ships both east and west of the Mississippi River, though for different fees of course. Cheeses arrive in a brightly-stickered box. If you want to give the gift of cheese to someone special in your life all year long while supporting a small business, consider this box.

Oprah’s Pick: Cheese & Thank You Gift Collection by Point Reyes

Oprah has weighed in and Point Reyes is one of her Favorite Things. For under $100, the Cheese & Thank You box by Point Reyes contains four cheeses, plus crackers, a sour cherry spread, and a cheese knife. The women-owned cheesemaker’s 2024 ACS Gold medalist, Bay Blue, is also included.

Has Oprah ever steered you wrong? I think not.

Our When-You-Can’t-Fly-To-Europe-Until-Black-Friday-Airline-Sales Pick: Portugalia Marketplace’s Charcutaria and Queijaria Box

What we like about this box is its emphasis on an experience that transports. By hand-picking cured Brazilian sausage, Azorean cheeses, and additional delicacies such as olives and fig jam, Portugalia Marketplace offers a taste of Europe without the hassle of flights. A more-than-adequate splurge for pre-holiday double-dates on snowy evenings.

Our Custom Pick: von Trapp Farmstead’s Custom Cheese Box

Von Trapp Farmstead makes whey-fed salami and award-winning organic cheeses that you can select for a choose-your-own cheese box experience. What we like is that you can filter products based on preferences or budget. For example: If you know someone who really loves buttery bries, you can opt for a full wheel of Mt. Alice as opposed to eight ounces. A gift box from von Trapp Farmstead is a conversation starter as well, since the farm was started by one of the original Trapp Family Singers of The Sound of Music fame.

Our Charcuterie Pick: Larchmont Charcuterie’s Saucisson Sampler

Technically, this is neither cheese nor a gift box. However, this sampler offers three substantial, quality saucissons made by a French chef that are begging to be paired with fancy cheese. And let’s be honest: There’s always some guy at the holiday soiree hording the pepperoni. Bring something everyone can enjoy when the pepperoni’s gone.

Our All-American Pick: Best Sellers Box by Saxelby Cheesemongers

New York’s Saxelby Cheesemongers prides itself on purveying “fine American farmstead cheese.” The box contains four such fine American farmstead cheeses. There Casella’s prosciutto too, an upstate New York curing operation helmed by an Italian, and organic crackers from Wisconsin that “taste as if they were just taken out of the oven and coated in sea salt,” according to Saxelby’s site description. Saxelby’s doesn’t miss and neither does this box—it’s a crowd pleaser.

Our Christmas Pick: 12 Days of Murray’s Cheese

It’s basically an adult Advent Calendar featuring more than two pounds of cheese. One reviewer said, “This was a fabulous gift to start the holiday spirit!” We couldn’t agree more.

Our Wisconsin Pick: The Hunter & The Cheesemaker Gift Box

Few places are as synonymous with cheese as Wisconsin—home to the Cheese Capital of the World and sports fans who wear cheese wedge hats. So it’s no surprise that the Badger State not only masters cheesemaking but also excels in crafting top-tier accompaniments. This gift box from Driftless Provisions showcases Wisconsin-made delights, featuring their standout charcuterie, artisan cheeses from Roth, and thoughtfully curated accompaniments. It’s the ultimate way to savor the flavors of Wisconsin and elevate any gathering (plus, it has free shipping)!

Alana Pedalino

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