The winning cheese, called Olavidia, from an artisan cheesemaker using the commercial name Quesos y Besos (Cheeses and Kisses), got 103 votes, besting the second-place finisher, a soft cheese from France’s Fromagerie Berthaut washed with the spirit Marc de Bourgogne, with 98 votes, that had been ahead until the very last minute.
A soft Spanish goat’s cheese has done enough to seduce this year’s judges at the World Cheese Awards, with Olavidia being crowned the best cheese in the world and beating more than 4000 entries from over 40 countries on five continents.
Popular throughout Sweden—particularly during Midsummer and Christmas—demand for the cheese often exceeds supply. Cotherstone cheese is a semi-hard cheese made from unpasteurized full fat cow’s milk. There are two versions – white and blue-veined, although the white is much more prevalent.
For these, sirene is the most common cheese used and is one of the national foods of Bulgaria. Sirene is commonly thought of as a version of feta, but it’s sweeter than Greek feta.
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