All-star American cheeses for the Fourth of July

David Gremmels and Cary Bryant, cheesemakers at Rogue Creamery in Central Point, Ore., had no cheesemaking experience when they first started in 2002. A year later, they created Rogue River Blue, an intriguing cheese that won first place in the blue category at the World Cheese Awards and in 2004 won the blue category at the American Cheese Society conference.

Today, they continue to mesmerize us with new, groundbreaking blue cheeses and are the first cheesemakers in the United Sates to be granted an exportation license for a raw-milk cheese.

This pair certainly worked wonders when they produced Rogue River Blue, their most...