Entry Call For NZ Champions Of Cheese Awards 2023
Entry is open for the 2023 NZ Champions of Cheese
Awards, which will celebrate 20 years recognising
and promoting NZ Cheese next year.
The 2023 NZ
Champions of Cheese Awards will be judged at Wintec
Rotokauri Campus on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 March 2023.
Medal winners will be named on Tuesday 28 March 2023 with
Champions announced at the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards
Gala Dinner – celebrating 20 years – in Hamilton on
Thursday 4 May 2023.
Calling for entries for 2023,
Chair of the New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association
(NZSCA) Simon Lamb said, “celebrating 20 years of the NZ
Champions of Cheese Awards is a wonderful
milestone.”
While Kiwis’ palates have evolved over
the past two decades and we are more adventurous with
flavour, many things remain the same. The inaugural 2004 NZ
Champions of Cheese Champion of Champions Supreme Award was
Mainland Ferndale Raclette. Twenty years on, Mainland
remains a staple of the local cheese industry. However,
it’s been joined by a number of boutique cheesemakers
specialising in crafting artisan cheese from goat, buffalo,
sheep and deer milk as well as the widely used cow
milk.”
The NZ Champions of Cheese has evolved over
time and reflects our changing industry. For example last
year we added the Countdown Sustainability
Award to encourage the industry to continue to find
new opportunities for ethical and sustainable
business.
Simon Lamb is encouraging all NZ
cheesemakers, whether they are members of the Association or
not, to enter this special anniversary of the NZ Champions
of Cheese Awards.
Master Judge, Jason Tarrant will
again preside over the panel of 30 judges. Over the past
couple of months Jason has hosted a judges’ training
session and another will be held before the Awards judging .
“The NZSCA is working on building the skills of judges to
ensure we have talented,…
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