US cheeses win 131 medals and top honor at World Cheese Awards
This year’s competition included a bigger and more diverse lineup than ever before.
A panel of 260 judges from 25 countries ranked a U.S. cheese — Rogue Creamery’s Rogue River Blue — the best in the world at the 2019 World Cheese Awards (WCA) in Bergamo, Italy. This year’s competition included a bigger and more diverse lineup than ever before, said the Arlington, Va.-based USA Cheese Guild, featuring cheeses from around the globe.
A record-breaking 3,804 cheeses from 42 different nations were judged in a single day. While the rind and the body of the cheese, its color, texture and consistency were all considered, the ultimate judging criterion was taste.