The American Cheese Society has announced the winners for the 2016 Judging and Competition! Click here for a full PDF of all of the winners, and see below for Best of Show and winners in the Farmstead Cheese category.
Best of Show
1st Place: Little Mountain
Roelli Cheese Company | Shullsburg, Wisconsin
Cheesemaker: Chris Roelli
2nd Place TIED: Buff Blue
Bleating Heart Cheese | Tomales, California
Cheesemaker: Seana Doughty
2nd Place TIED: St. Malachi Reserve
The Farm at Doe Run | Unionville, Pennsylvania
Cheesemaker: Samuel Kennedy and Matthew Hettlinger
3rd Place TIED: Jeffs’ Select Gouda
Caves of Faribault | Faribault, Minnesota
Cheesemaker: Jeff Jirik and Jeff Wideman
3rd Place TIED: Greensward
Murray’s Cheese | Greensboro, Vermont & New York, New York
Cheesemaker: Jasper Hill Farm
Farmstead Cheeses
Limited to cheeses and fermented milk products made with milk from herds on the farm where the cheeses are produced
Farmstead Cheeses Aged less than 60 Days—All Milks (MA)
1st Place: Prufrock
The Grey Barn | Chilmark, Massachusetts
Cheesemaker: Joseph Alstat
2nd Place: Arethusa Diva
Arethusa Farm Dairy| Litchfield, Connecticut
Cheesemaker: Chris Casiello and Matt Benham
3rd Place: Triple Cream
Coach Farm | Pine Plains, New York
Cheesemaker: Mark Newbold
Farmstead Cheeses Aged 60 Days or More—39% or Higher Moisture—Made from Cow’s Milk (MC)
1st Place: Winnimere
Jasper Hill Farm | Greensboro, Vermont
Cheesemaker: Mateo Kehler
2nd Place: Drunken Margie mini
Sprout Creek Farm | Poughkeepsie, New York
Cheesemaker: Colin McGrath
3rd Place: Dancing Fern
Sequatchie Cove Creamery | Sequatchie, Tennessee
Cheesemaker: Nathan Arnold
Farmstead Cheeses Aged 60 days or More—Less than 39% Moisture—Made from Cow’s Milk (ME)
1st Place: St. Malachi Reserve
The Farm at Doe Run | Unionville, Pennsylvania
Cheesemaker: Samuel Kennedy and Matthew Hettlinger
2nd Place: Tarentaise
Farms For City Kids Foundation / Spring Brook Farm | Reading, Vermont
Cheesemaker: Spring Brook Farm Team
3rd Place TIED: Tomte
Fairy Tale Farm | Bridport, Vermont
Cheesemaker: Alissa Shethar
3rd Place TIED: Alpage
Chaseholm Farm Creamery | Pine Plains, New York
Cheesemaker: Chaseholm Farm Creamery
Farmstead Cheeses Aged 60 days or More—made from Goat’s Milk (MG)
1st Place: Très Bonne
Boston Post Dairy| Enosburg Falls, Vermont
Cheesemaker: Anne Doe
2nd Place: Tomme
Country Winds Creamery | Zeeland, Michigan
Cheesemaker: John Windemuller
3rd Place TIED: Manchester
Consider Bardwell Farm | West Pawlet, Vermont
Cheesemaker: Leslie Goff
3rd Place TIED: Rawstruck
Coach Farm | Pine Plains, New York
Cheesemaker: Mark Newbold
Farmstead Cheeses Aged 60 Days or More—Made from Sheep’s | Mixed, or Other Milks (MS)
1st Place: Baserri
Barinaga Ranch | Marshall, California
Cheesemaker: Marcia Barinaga
2nd Place: Peekville Tomme
Manyfold Farm | Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia
Cheesemaker: Rebecca Williams and Drue Hocker | Affineur: Tim Gaddis
3rd Place: Friesago
Shepherd’s Way Farms | Nerstrand, Minnesota
Cheesemaker: Jodi Ohlsen Read
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