The 2010 World Cheese Awards were announced at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham last week. A full list of the major award winners is available here. Here are some highlights.
The Best Traditional Cheddar award was, of course, won by Montgomery.
The Best American Cheese award was won by Tarentaise, an Alpine style cheese from Spring Brook Farm in Vermont.
The Best Welsh Cheese award went to the lovely people at Trethowan’s Dairy for Gorwydd Caerphilly. They have a stall in St.Nicholas Market in Bristol. I shop there a lot.
And the awards for Best English Cheese, Best British Cheese and World Champion all went to Cornish Blue, which I was lucky enough to come across earlier this year.
I’m delighted to see that my little part of the world is once again being acknowledged for what it does best.
Yum, Cheese. Nothing wrong with a good piece of cheese. Now I have to go see if I can find some of these. 🙂
The Montgomery, Gorwydd and Tarentaise should all be available from Cowgirl Creamery in the Ferry Building (though they don’t always have them in stock). Pester them about the Cornish Blue. They are good people and happy to get recommendations for new things to stock.
That looks like the Caerphilly I’ve been buying at Durham market (when they have it). In which case it’s certainly my cheese of the year!
And don’t forget the Best New Cheese winner, PaÅ¡ki Sir from Sirana Gligora on the Island of Pag in Croatia. Winning 3 Super Golds along with the trophy…
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