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Get your free copy28 November 2011, 17:10 PM
- This year's World Cheese Awards saw 2,500 entries from 34 countries enter the competition, and a French producer scoop the World Champion Cheese 2011
On 23rd November, farmhouse producer Fromagerie Agour won the top cheese award for its Ossau Iraty AOP cheese.
The producer has already won the same award for the same cheese back in 2006 and it is now being imported to the UK by QST/Cheese de France.
Frédéric Gayral from QST, who submitted the World Champion cheese and was at the show to collect the award commented, “This is amazing! I have judged at the awards for eight years now and to have a cheese win twice is unbelievable. I called the father and son who make the cheese to tell them the good news and they started to cry on the phone, it was overwhelming.”
Other prizes on the night included Belton Cheese winning two Gold awards for its Wensleydale and Mature Cheddar as well as a Bronze for its Red Leicester.
And, the Best British Cheese was declared as Cornish Blue from the Cornish Cheese Company.
Other award winners included:
Best Irish: Killeen Farmhouse Cheese for its Killeen Goat
Best Mature Cheddar: Mature Farmhouse Cheddar from A.J. & R.G Barber Ltd.
Best Unpasteurised: Cornish Blue from the Cornish Cheese Company
Best Welsh: Llandyrnog Creamery’s Medium Creamery Cheddar
Best Gruyere: Kaltbach Le Gruyere from the Dairy 4397 Peney Le Jorat
