Bix Cheese wins World Cheese Award
Image: Nettlebed Creamery
Bix Cheese from the Nettlebed Creamery has picked up a Bronze from the World Cheese Awards recently held in Oviedo in Northern Spain.
4079 cheeses were entered from 45 countries around the world and the awards are the biggest ‘cheese only’ competition in the world.
There are three winning categories of Bronze, Silver and Gold, chosen by the competitions 250 judges, of each variety/style of cheese. Each of the judging table then chooses a ‘Super Gold’. Those 88 cheeses then get whittled down to a final top sixteen cheeses, with an ultimate champion voted for by the super jury.
This year’s World Champion Cheese was Olavidia made by Quesos y Besos from from Jaén in Andalusia in Spain, a soft goats’ cheese with olive stone ash.
If you are coming to Experience Henley’s Cheese Club event tomorrow night, you will be lucky enough to taste one of the Super Gold Cheeses which was ranked 15th cheese in the world out of over four thousand cheeses, Pitchfork Vintage Cheddar, plus Silver winners Ogleshield from the Montgomery cheese making family and Bronze winners Beauvale from the Cropwell Bishop Creamery and Tunworth from the Hampshire Cheese Company.
You can check out all the World Cheese Award winners here
