4 Cheeses That Can’t Be Beat

To inventory your cheese board it’d pay to notice this 12 months’s high picks within the annual judging by the American Cheese Society. They have been introduced final week on the group’s convention in Portland, Ore. There are scores of classes for cheeses, butters and cultured dairy merchandise, with winners in every. However solely 4 have been named Greatest in Present. In first place was Whitney, a Raclette-style cheese from Jasper Hill Farm in Greensboro Bend, Vt. Second place went to 2 cheeses: Flagsheep, a semihard mix of cow and sheep milks by Beecher’s Handmade Cheese in Seattle; and Bamboozle, a washed-rind mix of goat and cow milks from Rodeo Farm & Dairy in Allison Park, Pa. In third place was one other Jasper Hill Farm cheese, Greensward, a soft-ripened washed rind magnificence made in collaboration with Murray’s Cheese in New York.

American Cheese Society, cheesesociety.org.

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