The awards will be part of Oviedo’s International Cheese Festival.
The Guild of Fine Food, Gillingham, England, said that the World Cheese Awards will be held in the Spanish principality of Asturias this year, taking place in Oviedo on Nov. 3. Having extended Oviedo’s tenure as World Cheese Capital following the event’s postponement as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, the 33rd edition of the competition will now form part of the Asturias Paraíso Natural International Cheese Festival 2021, run by the Instituto del Queso, in partnership with the principality of Asturias and the City Council of Oviedo.
An opportunity for the global cheese community to come together after a year of unprecedented challenges for cheesemakers and the industry as a whole, the World Cheese Awards will be at the heart of a four-day festival dedicated only to cheese, staged at Oviedo’s Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos. As the cheese world congregates in the city between Nov. 3 and Nov. 6 2021, the competition is set to be bigger and more international than ever before, following the record-breaking 3,804 entries from 42 different countries judged in Bergamo, Italy, in 2019, the Guild of Fine Food said.