Description Uplands Cheese makes mountain-style cheese inspired by Old World farmsteads. Using techniques from the Alpine provinces of southeastern France, the company makes a hand-crafted cheese called Pleasant Ridge Reserve. The company's cheese, similar to a French Gruyere, is made from the select milk of pasture-fed cows and is aged for about four months in a cave-like environment. On its 300-acre farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Uplands Cheese has about 200 cows and produces some 70,000 pounds of cheese per year. Its products are sold in restaurants, cheese shops, full-line grocery stores, and on the Internet. The company is owned and operated by the Gingrich and Patenaude families.