Source: NCDA&CS, 10/10/11

Chapel Hill Creamery took top honors in the first-ever N.C. State Fair Cheese Competition. The dairy’s Calavander asiago cheese won Best of North Carolina and Best of Show, in addition to winning a gold medal for best hard cheese. Chapel Hill Creamery also won gold medals in the Swiss Styles, Mozzarella, Flavored Soft Cheese and Semi-Soft Cheese categories.

Judging took place Oct. 6. A team of four judges rated the cheeses on technical and aesthetic merits using the American Cheese Society’s point system: gold medal, 93-100 points; silver, 86-92; and bronze, 80-85.
Following is a list of honorees by category:

Swiss Styles
• Gold medal, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill
Mozzarella
• Gold medal, Chapel Hill Creamery
Feta
• Silver medal, Bonnie Blue Farm, Waynesboro, Tenn.
Flavored Soft Cheese
• Gold medal, Chapel Hill Creamery
• Silver medal, Prodigal Farm, Rougemont
Open Class for Semi-Soft Cheese
• Gold medal, Chapel Hill Creamery
• Silver medal, Bonnie Blue Farm, Waynesboro, Tenn.
Open Class for Hard Cheese
• Gold medal, Chapel Hill Creamery
Goat’s Milk Fresh Chevre Cheese (Flavored)
• Gold and silver medals, Bonnie Blue Farm, Waynesboro, Tenn.
• Bronze medal, Holly Grove Farms, Goldsboro
Goat’s Milk Fresh Chevre Cheese (Unflavored)
• Gold medal, Holly Grove Farms, Goldsboro
• Silver medal, Prodigal Farm, Rougemont
• Bronze medal, Bonnie Blue Farm, Waynesboro, Tenn.
Goat’s Milk Aged Cheese
• Gold medal, Prodigal Farm, Rougemont
• Silver and bronze medals, Bonnie Blue Farm, Waynesboro, Tenn.

All cheeses in the contest will be available for purchase at the Dairy Artisan Tent during the State Fair, Oct. 13-23. The tent is located in front of the Jim