Five champion and medal winning cheese products have been selected for inclusions in the 'perfect cheese board' at this year's Sydney Royal Cheese & Dairy Produce Awards.
The competition saw a spike in entries from 708 catalogued entries recorded in 2018 to 869 catalogued entries in 2019, judged across 99 classes, and judges noted an increase in overall quality in spite of the dairy industry battling one of the toughest seasons it has ever experienced.
“Nothing can be made without good quality milk – so a big thank you to our farmers. It has been a difficult season and our dairy farmers need to be congratulated for high quality product at this time,” Sydney Royal Cheese & Dairy Produce Show chair of judges Mark Livermore said.
The Australian Cheeseboard Perpetual Trophy includes the following medal-winning products:
- Bega Cheese, Bega Rindless Cheddar Vintage
- Blackall Country Cheese PTY LTD (T/A Woombye Cheese Company), Woombye Ash Brie
- Berry’s Creek Gourmet Cheese, Oak Blue
- Meredith Dairy, Meredith Dairy Goats Cheese Original Chevre
- Berry’s Creek Gourmet Cheese, Sunrise Plains
Winners in other categories included Pure Gelato which took home Champion Gelato for its Salted Pistachio Gelato and Champion Novel Ice cream or Gelato for its Pure Gelato Cannoli.
Champion Butter went to Fonterra Australia, Duck River Premium Butter while Brownes Food Operations took home Champion White Milk.
Bulla Dairy Foods won Champion Cream for the Aldi Farmdale Light Thickened Cream and Champion Sheep, Goat, Buffalo & Camel Milk Product, and The Simon Johnson Perpetual Trophy went to Berrys Creek Gourmet Cheese for Sunrise Plains.
