On April 14th, the winners of the Canadian Cheese Awards were announced at a gala held held in Montreal and this year's grand prize was awarded to Avonlea Clothbound Cheddar by Cows Creamery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. We have carried this cheese since C'est Cheese Please! opened....we loved it then, we love it today! It is a thermalized milk cheese (the milk is heated but not completely pasteurized) made in a typically British fashion of binding the wheels of cheese with cloth. This keeps the moisture in the cheese resulting in a creamier aged cheddar. The unique feature of Avonlea Cheddar is that the cloth that is used to bind the cheese is potato sacking which gives the cheese an earthy taste...the taste of PEI. This cheese has won many awards internationally and now adds this honour to its pedigree.
There were 31 categories in the 2016 Canadian Cheese Awards. The Regional Awards were as follows:
Best B.C Cheese - Traditional Clothbound Cheddar, The Farm House Natural Cheeses, BC
Best West Cheese - Natural Smoked Gouda Medium - Sylvan Star Cheese, Alberta
Best Ontario Cheese - Tania (Sheep's Milk) - Lenberg Farms Classic Reserve, Mariposa Dairy, ON
Best Quebec Cheese - Le Pionnier - Fromagerie Nouvelle France, PQ
Best Atlantic Cheese - Cows Creamery Appletree Smoked Cheddar - Cows Creamery, PEI
Currently, there are a number of the cheeses which were on the short list for the awards in stock at C'est Cheese Please! including L'Hercule de Charlevoix, Tania, Lindsay Bandaged Goat Cheddar, Avonlea and Alfred le Fermier to name just a few. So celebrate our fabulous artisanal cheese makers this weekend!
Bon Appetit!
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