We are Supreme Champion Winners!
We are so proud to announce that have won Supreme Champion at the International Cheese & Dairy Awards for our Shropshire Blue Cheese. There were over 4000 entrants to the awards this year, so it’s fantastic that our blue cheese has been recognised as the best! It was their 125 year anniversary of the awards, and over 4000 cheeses were entered and judged by hundreds of judges, including retailers, specialist delis and cheese experts.
Our Shropshire Blue has a very similar recipe to our Blue Stilton, traditionally made and matured by our Master Cheesemakers, and is a full-bodied cheese with a creamy texture, rich flavour and distinctive blue veins.
These are prestigious awards and we always enter into a number of categories. This year we exhibited at the show too, for our trade customers, retailers and consumers to try our delicious cheese.
We also won a number of Golds and Silvers for our Blue Stilton, White Stilton, Rutland Red and blended cheese too, placing gold, silver or bronze in a total of 9 classes.
These awards are for everyone at Clawson and the farmer members, and credits the hard work and years of expertise that have gone into making all of our cheese the best it can be. What a fantastic return to our first show.
We won the following trophies:
| Trophy | Winning Cheese |
| Nantwich Agricultural Society 1897 Supreme Champion cheese Trophy | Shropshire Blue |
| The Frances Pawlett Trophy | Two Halves Standard Blue Stilton |
| The Cooper Thornhill Trophy | Two Halves Mature Blue Stilton |
| Cathedral City Crown Stilton Trophy | Whole Blue Stilton |
| The Long Clawson Trophy for the Champion Blue Stilton cheese | Two Halves Blue Stilton |
| Chr Hansen Perpetual Challenge Cup | Shropshire Blue |
| The Champion UK Trophy | Shropshire Blue |
And then our results in the classes:
| Class Description | Award |
| Traditional Red Leicester Cheese | Silver – Rutland Red |
| Whole Blue Stilton | Gold – Blue Stilton |
| Whole Blue Stilton | Silver – Blue Stilton |
| Two Halves Standard Blue Stilton | Gold – Blue Stilton |
| Two Halves Standard Blue Stilton | Bronze – Blue Stilton |
| Two Halves Mature Blue Stilton | Gold – Mature Blue Stilton |
| Two Halves Mature Blue Stilton | Bronze – Mature Blue Stilton |
| Plain White Stilton | Gold – White Stilton |
| Shropshire Blue | Gold – Shropshire Blue |
| Blue Vein Cheese | Gold – Shropshire Blue |
| Blue Vein Cheese | Silver – Blue Stilton |
| Blended | Gold – Caribbean Twist – cheddar, chilli, mango cream cheese |
| Blended | Silver – Wensleydale with Cranberry Cream Cheese Whirl |
