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World Cheese Awards Oviedo

World Cheese Awards Oviedo

Updated on 4 October 2023
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World Cheese Awards Oviedo
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    A soft goat cheese is the winner of the World Cheese Awards 2021. It was the best of 4.079 cheeses from a total of 40 countries.

    The award-winning cheese, named Olavidia, is made in a small cheese factory called Quesos y Besos. It won first place after obtaining 103 votes and beating the second place, a soft French cheese, Fromagerie Berthaut, washed with Marc de Bourgogne liqueur. Olavidia is made with slowly pasteurized goat's milk; The type of coagulation is lactic, matured with molds and charcoal.



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    The World Cheese Awards will be held from November 3 to 6, 2021 in the city of Oviedo. The World Cheese Awards is the most recognized international cheese competition on the continent. Organized by The Guild of Fine Food, the World Cheese Awards have brought together cheese professionals for decades.

    Best cheeses in the world

    4.000 cheeses from 5 continents will participate in the most recognized international cheese competition in the world and will be valued by 250 international judges.

    Paradise Foods

    The quality brand «Alimentos del Paraíso» has a showcase within the festival of its products and its local producers, for its projection, sale and promotion.

    Cheese market

    Visitors will be able to enjoy the experiences and purchase of all kinds of cheese-related products from different regions of Europe.
    Cheeses from Menorca, Galicia, Basque Country, Cantabria, Extremadura, Girona, Aragon...; Asturian cheeses de Cabrales, Afuegal'Pitu, los Beyos, Casín…; also cheeses from Portugal, Romania or Japan.

    Origin Space

    Tasting
    Stands with products of different denominations of origin (PDO), protected geographical indications (PGI), international products and Food from Natural Paradise.
    1 HAZI // 2 IGP Spanish Cheese // 3 CICAP - Technological Center // 4 FROMAGO - Cheese Experience // 5 Cheese from Castilla y León // 6 Spanish Network of Country and Artisan Cheese Factories // 7 100% Native Breed // 8 PDO Manchego Cheese // 9 Canarian Institute of Agrifood Quality // 10 Foods from Cantabria // 11 Foods from Paradise // 12 PDO Casín // 13 PDO Gamoneu + Virtual Reality Experience // 14 PDO Cabrales // 15 PDO Afuega'l Pitu.

    Tastings of the Origin Space
    Free activity under registration

    10.00 - 10.30 Nov 4. IGP LOS BEYOS // Nov 5 CHEESES FROM ECUADOR
    11.00 - 11.45 Nov 4. CHEESE OF A 100% AUTOCHTHONIAN BREED // 5 nov. ORIGINAL PICOS DE EUROPA · LICOR CABRALES
    12.15 - 13.00 Nov 4 ICCA - CHEESES OF THE CANARY ISLANDS // 5 nov. ICCA CHEESES FROM THE CANARY ISLANDS
    13.30 - 14.15 Nov 4 HAZI - EUSKADI BASQUE COUNTRY // Nov 5 MORE AND MORE
    16.00 - 16.45 Nov 4. TGT // Nov 5 ICCA - CHEESES OF THE CANARY ISLANDS
    17.15 - 18.00 Nov 4. CHEESES FROM CASTILLA Y LEÓN // 5 nov. IGP CASTILIAN CHEESE
    18.30 - 19.15 Nov 4 FROMAGO CHEESE EXPERIENCE // 5 nov. GUARA CHEESE WITH SOMONTANO WINE

    November 3th
    WORLD CHEESE AWARDS 2021: ASSESSMENT OF THE JUDGES

    4-6 for November
    WORLD CHEESE AWARDS 2021: TASTING