Global Cheese Awards picks Canadian as Supreme Champion

The Global Cheese Awards, held in Frome, UK, selected the Canadian cheese maker Glengarry Cheesemaking’s Lankaaster loaf as its Supreme Champion. The UK supreme champion was Keen’s Raw Milk Cheddar. “We are absolutely thrilled to be awarded the ‘Supreme Champion’ designation at the 2013 Global Cheese Awards,” says Margaret Peters, president of Glengarry Cheesemaking & Glengarry Fine Cheese. “We are also equally thrilled to have achieved a bronze placing for our Celtic blue cheese. We are however, disappointed that we did not come to join everyone at the ceremony and we send our best wishes to all the winners at this year’s competition. We had not anticipated these results, as we have never competed outside the boundaries of North America.”

The Lankaaster is is a hard cheese with a slightly open texture, the company says. The cheese is shaped as a loaf to express the fact that it is meant to be sliced and eaten directly on bread as the Dutch farmers do. The profile is given by the specific starter culture used and makes it typical of cheeses made on Dutch farms earlier in the century. It is aged two to four months.