Local cheeses pull top awards

WEYAUWEGA – A number of production lines at Agropur’s Weyauwega cheese-making facility won multiple awards in the World Championship Cheese Contest. It is the world’s premier technical cheese, butter, and yogurt competition. The World Contest has been hosted by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association biennially since 1957. This year it was held at the Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison.
Entries are evaluated by a team of skilled technical judges from all over the world. Starting from a maximum possible 100 points, deductions are made for various defects found by each judge. Defects are noted in the areas of flavor, body and texture, salt, color, finish, packaging, and other appropriate attributes. A Gold medal, Silver medal and Bronze medal are awarded to the three highest-scoring entries in each class.
• Supervisor Michael Schroeder won third place in the Cheddar, Medium (3 to 6 months) category.
• Supervisor Charles Henn won Best of Class in the Cheddar, Aged One to Two Years catergory.
• Supervisor Steve Monacelli won third place in the Feta Cheese category.
• Supervisor Ariel Graveen won second place with fat-free feta cheese in the Low-Fat Cheese category. She also took third place in the open-class crumbled cheese category with crumbled feta cheese.
• Supervisor Drew Simonson won third place in the open-class Shredded Italian Style Cheese category with low-moisture shredded mozzarella.