The cheese of Spain, valued worldwide

Every year the World Cheese Awards is held, an event that allows us to know which are the best cheeses in the world.

This 2020, however, the situation we are going through has prevented these from being held, so we will have to wait until November 2021 to know the new ranking.

However, reviewing last year’s list, we find how 18 Spanish cheeses received the “Super Gold” rating as proof of their quality. Now, how is this event celebrated? What Spanish cheeses received this distinction? We answer both questions, below:

Last edition of the World Cheese Awards

Last year the event was held in Bergamo, traveling for the first time to Italy, and coinciding with the FORME cheese festival. The jury was made up of about 250 experts and more than 3500 cheeses from all over the world participated, specifically, from 40 countries.

To value each cheese, the jury has to divide into small groups of various awards. Then, each team proposes an exceptional cheese, which receives the rating of “Super Gold” that we have already mentioned.

Y, Finally, a 16-member jury selects and determines the final ranking of the best cheeses in the world, among which the cheese from Spain stands out, valued worldwide.

In short, a global event that brings together cheesemakers, retailers, buyers, consumers and commentators from around the world.

Spanish cheeses that received the “Super Gold” rating

In the last edition, 18 Spanish cheeses received the “Super Gold” rating, 3 more than in the previous edition:

1. Semi-cured goat cheese (Quesos Sierra Sur)
2. Goat Sarró (Montbrú Cheeses)
3. Torta del Casar PDO Virgen Del Prado (Doña Francisca Cheese Factory)
4. Cured Cheese Mahón Menorca (Son Vives)
5. Francisco Selección Cheese (Francisco Moran and Sons)
6. Ecological Inanna (Parra Jiménez)
7. The Old Manchego Atrium (Queserías Entrepinares)
8. Tetilla Cheese (Sarrian Cheeses)
9. Los Gameros cured sheep cheese (Lácteos Martinez)
10. Oveja Winery (Finca De Uga)
11. Idiazábal Azkarra
12. Artisan sheep cheese cured in butter and thyme “Villarejo” (Quesos Artesanos Villarejo)
13. Sheep’s cheese in olive oil and aged rum (El Bosqueño)
14. Artisan Manchego cheese Gran Reserva “Nuestra Señora de Fuentes” (Artisan Villarejo Cheeses)
15. Mahón Menorca Quintana Cured Cheese (Quintana Cheese)
16. Rosemary aged sheep cheese (Quesos Vega Sotuélamos)
17. Torta Del Casar PDO Gran Tajo Selection (Iberqués Extremadura)
18. Subaida Aged Cheese (Subaida Cheeses)

In addition, we remember that the next edition will be held in Oviedo, as part of Asturias International Cheese Festival Paraíso Natural, from November 3 to 6, 2021.

And, if you have a brand of cheese that deserves to receive the “Super Gold” rating, you can participate by filling out a form that appears at the bottom of the World Cheese Awards website.

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