Win a heart-shaped box of cheese for your Valentine

Watch out heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. Cheese is coming, again, for your status as the standard bearer of Valentine’s Day gifts.

Last year, Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin gave away 500 heart-shaped boxes filled with Wisconsin cheese as part of a Valentine’s Day contest. They got 20,000 entries. So, you cheddar believe the contest is back. This time with a cheesy twist on the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket that gives one lucky Valentine (and three friends) a fromage-filled trip to America’s Dairyland.

To enter the contest, go online to nominate the cheeselover in your life at WisconsinCheese.com/LoveLanguage by Jan. 27. (You can nominate yourself.) Five hundred nominees will be chosen to have a heart-shaped box of cheese shipped to them in time for Valentine’s Day.

Each box includes a heart-shaped cheese board and three Wisconsin cheeses (which will vary) from these cheesemakers:

Marieke Gouda flavored Goudas Cello flavored Rubbed Fontal cheeses

Pine River cheese spreads Carr Valley Menage Shullsburg Creamery Colby

One box includes the Crystal Wedge. That lucky cheesehead gets to invite three companions on a custom dairyfueled adventure that could include:

VIP tasting and dinner with a Wisconsin chef.

All-access tour to a local creamery and dairy farm.

$500 cheese allowance to stock up on the world’s best cheese.

You’re on your own to figure out how much space you need in a suitcase for $500 of cheese curds.

Contact Daniel Higgins dphiggin @gannett.com. Follow @HigginsEats on Twitter and Instagram and like on Facebook.

COURTESY OF DAIRY FARMERS OF WISCONSIN The Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin contest gives away 500 heart-shaped boxes of cheese for Valentine’s Day. One box includes the Crystal Wedge that unlocks a trip for four to Wisconsin for some cheesy fun.