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Awards and Honors:

Another Cheese Win for Split Creek Farm

In February, we crossed our fingers. hoped for the best, and entered our feta cheese in the 2010 World Championship Cheese Contest held in Madison, Wisconsin. In March, we were notified that we had won a Gold Medal in our class! This year's contest had the highest number of cheese and butter entries ever judged in this contest - over 2300 entries divided into 79 classes. Twenty nations were represented in the contest. Split Creek Farm feta in oil won gold over several European cheese makers.

Evin Evans, owner of Split Creek says, “We’ve known our cheese is wonderful, but it is nice to have this type of affirmation from international judges. We are thrilled to be able to offer our winning cheeses to our community at a time when customers are seeking local foods”.

Other winners in the goat cheese categories are as follows:

Soft Goat's Milk Cheeses

Adeline Druart and Team	Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery	Websterville, VT	USA	99.35	Best of Class	Fresh crottin
Ray Smith and Team	Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery	Websterville, VT	USA	989	Second Award	Chevre classic
Juani Reoli	Central Quesera Montesinos, S.L.	Jumilla, Murcia	Spain	98.7	Third Award	Capricho de Cabra Natural

Flavored Soft Goat's Milk Cheeses

Evin Evans	Splilt Creek Farm, LLC	Anderson, SC	USA	99.2	Best of Class	Split Creek Farm Farmstead Goat Feta
Miquel Vives Vinyals	Quesos De Cati	Cati, Castellon	Spain	99.1	Second Award	Cati Panoleta rosemary
Jose Rojas	Central Quesera Montesinos, S.L.	Jumilla, Murcia	Spain	99	Third Award	Cabra al Romero

Hard Goat's Milk Cheeses

Cypress Grove Chevre	Cypress Grove Chevre	Arcata, CA	USA	99.15	Best of Class	Midnight Moon
Team Dronrijp	Friesland Campina Cheese	Wolvega, Friesland	Netherlands	98.95	Second Award	Frans Hals goat
Team Tumalo	Tumalo Farms	Bend, OR	USA	98.7	Third Award	Classico

For more information on the competition please go to the World Champion Cheese Competition website

Cheese Publications:

Check out the new cheese magazine "Culture"

Goat Cheese Info:

http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/cheese/cheese2/whey/2005-11.asp

http://www.monkeydish.com/2008021623347/ingredients/goat-cheese.html

The History of Goat Cheese Pyramids