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WINNERS, SCORES, HIGHLIGHTS

March 7-9, 2017 LAMBEAU FIELD ATRIUM GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN U.S. Cheese Contest CHAMPIONS

MIKE MATUCHESKI RANDY KRAHENBUHL GIANNI TOFFOLON Sartori Company Fair Oaks Dairy Products Belgioioso Cheese Antigo, Wisconsin Fair Oaks, Indiana Denmark, Wisconsin 2017 2005 1991 TEAM GUGGISBERG MICHAEL GINGRICH LARRY MARTEN Guggisberg Cheese Uplands Cheese Company Cloverleaf Cheese Company Millersburg, Ohio Dodgeville, Wisconsin Stanley, Wisconsin 2015 2003 1989 HOLLAND’S FAMILY CHEESE TEAM CHRISTINE FARRELL TODD JAKOBI Holland’s Family Cheese Old Chatham Sheepherding Co. Sorrento Lactalis Thorp, Wisconsin Old Chatham, New York Arpin, Wisconsin 2013 2001 1987 KATIE HEDRICH MILFRED SEVERSON FRITZ KOPP LaClare Farms Specialties Klondike Cheese Company Deppeler Cheese Factory Chilton, Wisconsin Monroe, Wisconsin Monroe, Wisconsin 2011 1999 1985 JOHN GRIFFITHS RICK RUFER JAMES MEIVES Sartori Foods Kolb Lena Bresse Bleu Valley View Cheese Factory Antigo, Wisconsin Watertown, Wisconsin South Wayne, Wisconsin 2009 1997 1983 KEN ROOT CHARLES MALKASSIAN LOUIS LUYKX McCadam Cheese Company Vella Cheese Company of California Land O’ Lakes Chateaugay, New York Sonoma, California Kiel, Wisconsin 2007 1995 1981 MIKE BRENNENSTUHL Land O’ Lakes Denmark, Wisconsin 1993

2 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST We needed 50 of the nation’s finest cheese evaluators, hailing from 19 states, to take on explosive growth in the 2017 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest. And they performed perfectly, Winning Results finding the finest cheese, butter and yogurt among 2,303 entries from 33 states, in two exciting days of judging at Lambeau Field. 2017 UNITED STATES

Any cheesemaker can attest to the fact that it’s no small feat to Wisconsin GRAND CHAMPION Cheese Makers Association offers its heartiest congratulations to Grand Mike Matucheski Champion Mike Matucheski of Sartori Company, named Grand Champion for his best-of-show Sartori Reserve Black Pepper BellaVitano. First earning Sartori a gold medal in the flavored hard cheese class, the BellaVitano went on to Antigo, WI reach an impressive score of 99.02 in the Championship round. We also congratulate First Runner-Up Terry Lensmire of Agropur for a near- Reserve Black perfect aged Cheddar, and Second Runner-Up Marieke Penterman of Marieke Pepper BellaVitano Gouda – someone who’s becoming a familiar face in the winners’ circle - for her Marieke Gouda Belegen. Champion Round Score: 99.018 Wisconsin earns special mention for sweeping the three trophy spots and topping the medal count among gold, silver and bronze winners. Yet cheesemakers, buttermakers and yogurt-makers in 23 states took home medals in this the largest dairy competition ever held in the United States. 2017 FIRST RUNNER UP We salute all those who sent in their best products for evaluation. Your effort, Terry Lensmire in pursuit of excellence, builds a better dairy industry. Agropur To pull off an event of this scale and size, we rely on the time and talent of hundreds of industry volunteers - our famous “B-Team” - led by Brian Weyauwega, WI Eggebrecht of Welcome Dairy in Colby, Wis. Our partners at WOW Logistics Aged Cheddar and Wisconsin Aging & Grading Cheese Inc. are also vital to the contest’s success, and we are grateful for their help. Champion Round Score: 98.813 We are fortunate to have the leadership of our Chief Judge Robert Aschebrock, Chief Judge Emeritus Bill Schlinsog, and Assistant Chief Judges Tim Czmowski of Agropur, Stan Dietsche of Oshkosh Cold Storage & Cheese Sales, industry consultant Jim Mueller, and Sandy Toney of Masters Gallery 2017 SECOND RUNNER UP Foods. Marieke Gouda Team And, special thanks go to WCMA’s own Event Manager Kirsten Henning. With 22 percent growth in the number of Contest entries, Marieke Gouda her organization was key to our seamless event. Thorp, WI Finally, we want to express our gratitude for the generosity of our Contest Marieke Gouda Belegen competitors, who this year donated $50,000 worth of cheese, yogurt, and butter to Paul’s Pantry of Green Bay. Champion Round Score: 98.593 WCMA is honored to host the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest and we encourage you to share your suggestions to make our event even better, year after year. Planning for the 2019 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest is already underway! Complete Contest results JOHN UMHOEFER are available at: WCMA Executive Director WWW.USCHAMPIONCHEESE.ORG.

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 1 CONTEST RESULTS

Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Mild Dutt Zack, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, CLASS 1: CHEDDAR, MILD (0 TO 3 MONTHS) Colored Cheddar Cheddar Mild Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Aguilar Antonio, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, BEST OF CLASS cheese, cut from 640 Cheddar Mild Shawn Sadler, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, White Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods, Blackfoot, ID, Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Cheddar...... 99.4 0217 Mild Organic WC cheese, cut from 640 SECOND AWARD Harold Peters, Associated Milk Producers, Inc, Arellano Adrian, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Sanborn, IA, Mild Cheddar Cut from 640 Cheddar Mild Andy Follen, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Mild Cheddar...... 98.65 Fred Hart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Tony Ignaczak, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Cheddar, Vermont Mild Cheddar, New York Mild THIRD AWARD Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Kewaunee, Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery cheese, cut from 640 WI, Ponderosa Farmstead Snow Cheddar Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Mild...... 98.6 Kim Heiman, NASONVILLE DAIRY INC., Marshfield, Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery WI, Mild Cheddar Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Maurice Labombard, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, Mild Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, NY, Cheddar, New York Mild Rochester Team 1, AMPI-Rochester, Rochester, MN, Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Cheddar cut from 640 CA, Mild Cheddar...... 98.55 Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Team 1, Agropur, Le Sueur, MN, White cheddar Ken Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, Mild Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Nasonville Dairy, Inc, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Mild...... 98.55 Team A, Middlefield Original Cheese, Middlefield, OH, Marshfield, WI, Mild Cheddar David Lindgren, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, 01/02/17 vat b Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods, Blackfoot, ID, Mild Mild Cheddar...... 98.5 Team Joseph Farms, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Organic Cheddar Wilma Stefanowicz, McCadam Cheese, Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Mild Cheddar Rochester Team 2, AMPI-Rochester, Rochester, MN, Chateaugay, NY, Cheddar, New York Mild...... 98.4 Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Cheddar cut from 640 Dennis Dwinell, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, cheese, cut from 640 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Cabot, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Mild...... 98.25 Bongards Perham, Bongards Creameries, Perham, Cheddar Mild AMPI-Blair, AMPI-Blair, Blair, WI, Mild Cheddar.98.25 MN, Cheddar Block Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Jerry Coolbeth, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar Mild Cabot, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Mild...... 97.9 Colored Cheddar Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods, Blackfoot, ID, Mild Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Organic Cheddar Mild Colored Cheddar...... 97.9 Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Dairy Farmers of America, Utah, Dairy Farmers of JCC-Team 3, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Mild Cheddar Mild America, Beaver, UT, 1

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2 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar Mld Medium Colored Cheddar CLASS 3: CHEDDAR, SHARP (6 David Burch, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Bongards Perham2, Bongards Creameries, Perham, MONTHS TO 1 YEAR) Longhorn Cheddar 01133 MN, Block Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, BEST OF CLASS Pennsylvania White Cheddar Cheddar Medium Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Team 1, Agropur, Le Sueur, MN, Colored Cheddar Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, WI, Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 99.05 Bongards Perham2, Bongards Creameries, Perham, Medium Cheddar SECOND AWARD MN, Cheddar Block Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont AMPI-Blair, AMPI-Blair, Blair, WI, Sharp Medium Cheddar...... 99 CLASS 2: CHEDDAR, MEDIUM (3 TO 6 MONTHS) Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery THIRD AWARD Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Medium Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, BEST OF CLASS Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, English Hollow Cheddar...... 98.95 Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, Cheddar Medium WI, Medium Cheddar...... 99.25 Eddie Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, SECOND AWARD Cheddar, Vermont Medium Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 98.6 Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Maker MARK STAHL, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Kiel, WI, Medium Cheddar...... 99.05 of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, CA, Medium Adams, NY, CHEDDAR...... 98.45 Cheddar THIRD AWARD Ken Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, CHARLES VANDYKE, Great Lakes Cheese of Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar VT, Cheddar, Vermont Sharp...... 98.4 NY, Adams, NY, CHEDDAR...... 98.75 cheese, cut from 640 Brian Brown, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, NY, Cheddar, New York Sharp...... 98.4 Medium Colored Cheddar Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Gary Shutz, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Medium Cheddar Bongards Perham, Bongards Creameries, Perham, Cheddar, New York Sharp...... 98.35 MN, Block White...... 98.7 Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County 1ST SHIFT PRODUCTION, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Shar Cheddar Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Yellow Cheddar Adams, NY, CHEDDAR White...... 98.25 Medium...... 98.65 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Jerry Coolbeth, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Alan Russell, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, Cheddar Medium Cabot, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Sharp...... 98.15 NY, Cheddar, New York Medium...... 98.6 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, 2ND SHIFT PRODUCTION, Great Lakes Cheese Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Medium Colored Cheddar of NY, Adams, NY, CHEDDAR...... 98.15 Blackfoot, ID, Medium Colored Cheddar...... 98.55 Andy Kaskie, Agropur, Hull, IA, Medium Cheddar (cut Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, WI, Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery 640) Sharp Cheddar Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Jim Grant, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Chris Farrell, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Vermont Medium...... 98.5 Cheddar, Vermont Medium Cheddar, New York Sharp Terry Chase, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Catlin Creamery, Smith’s Country Cheese, DAN SMITH, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, NY, Cabot, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Medium...... 98.3 Winchendon, MA, Medium Cheddar CHEDDAR Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Dane Huebner, Hunt Cheese Cellar, Mequon, WI, Raw Taylor Gerhart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 98.2 Milk Cheddar 103116 VT, Cheddar, Vermont Sharp Jon Lepage, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Aaron Herbel/Benji Wiebe, Jason Wiebe Dairy, Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Sharp Cheddar, New York Medium Durham, KS, Medium Raw Milk Cheddar, batch Cheddar #1289 Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery cheese, cut from 640 Gomez Santiago, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Cheddar Medium Sharp Medium Colored Cheddar Kovacic Ajnizar, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, John McCarthy, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Cheddar Sharp Cheddar, New York Medium Entered by Masters Gallery Foods Manufactured by Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Land O’Lakes Kiel, Masters Gallery Foods, Inc, cheese, cut from 640 Plymouth, WI, Land O’Lakes Sharp Cheddar Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Fred Hart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Cheddar, Vermont Sharp Medium Bongards Perham, Bongards Creameries, Perham, TRACY STUCKEY, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, MN, Block NY, CHEDDAR Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar AMPI-Blair, AMPI-Blair, Blair, WI, Medium Cheddar cheese, cut from 640 Taylor Gerhart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, WI, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Medium Sharp Cheddar Bill Schaetzel, Agropur, Hull, IA, Medium Cheddar Oliver Spikes, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Sharp (cut 640) Cheddar 7.15.16 V6

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Oshkosh Cheese Sales 1-800-458-0146 www.oshkoshcheese.com [email protected] Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Tony Ignaczak, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Cheddar, New York Vintage CLASS 5: CHEDDAR, AGED TWO Sharp Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County YEARS OR LONGER Pam Hodgson, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Aged Cheddar 1-2yr Sartori Aged Farmhouse White Cheddar White BEST OF CLASS Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf ROB BLOUNT, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, NY, Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Sharp Cheddar CHEDDAR Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 99.45 Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont SECOND AWARD Sharp Seriously Sharp Entered by Masters Gallery Foods Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Terry Chase, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Manufactured by Land O’Lakes Kiel, MontAmore Cheddar VT Cheddar, Farmhouse Reserve Masters Gallery Foods, Inc, Plymouth, WI, Land O’Lakes Aged Cheddar...... 99.3 Huremovic Senada, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, PATTY BEATTIE, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, ID, Cheddar Sharp NY, CHEDDAR THIRD AWARD Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Maurice Labombard, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont NY, Cheddar, New York Vintage Kiel, WI, Aged Cheddar - Over 2 Years...... 99.05 Sharp Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Aaron Herbel/Benji Wiebe, Jason Wiebe Dairy, Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Aged Cheddar 1-2yr Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, Durham, KS, Sharp Farmhouse Cheddar, batch Yellow WI, Aged Cheddar - Over 2 Years...... 98.85 #1240 Rivera David, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, TIM ELMER, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, Cheddar Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR, Cheddar Aged NY, CHEDDAR...... 98.65 Organic Jefferson Cheddar Dennis Dwinell, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Higgins Shawnie, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, VT, VT Cheddar, Farmhouse Reserve Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 98.45 Cheddar Sharp Prcic Izudin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Cheddar Aged Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Plain, WI, organic white Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Vermont Three Year...... 98.4 Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Entered by Masters Gallery Foods Extra-Sharp Manufactured by Land O’Lakes Kiel, CLASS 4: CHEDDAR, AGED ONE TO TWO YEARS Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Masters Gallery Foods, Plymouth, WI, Land Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont O’Lakes Aged Cheddar...... 98.3 BEST OF CLASS Farmhouse Reserve Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Pam Hodgson, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Three Year...... 98.15 Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 99.3 Sartori Extra-Aged Farmhouse White Cheddar Terry Chase, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, SECOND AWARD VT Cheddar, Farmhouse Reserve Brattleboro, VT, 2 year Cheddar...... 98.05 Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Kiel, WI, Aged Cheddar - 1-2 Years...... 99.25 Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Theresa, WI, One Year Old Aged Cheddar Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 98.05 THIRD AWARD Martinez David, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Ken Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Daniel Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Aged Cheddar, Vermont Vintage Choice Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 99.15 Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Seriously Sharp Three Year Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 99.1 Jim Grant, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, VT 3RD SHIFT PRODUCTION, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Entered by Masters Gallery Foods Cheddar, Farmhouse Reserve Adams, NY, CHEDDAR Manufactured by Land O’Lakes Kiel, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Heber Valley Artisan Cheese, Heber Valley Artisan Masters Gallery Foods, Inc, Plymouth, WI, Brattleboro, VT, 1 year Cheddar Cheese, Midway, UT, Extra Sharp Cheddar Land O’Lakes Aged Cheddar...... 98.9 Team Black Creek on behalf of Saputo, Saputo JOE BURNHAM, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Adams, Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, 2 year Cheddar NY, CHEDDAR WI, Aged Cheddar - 1-2 Years...... 98.85 Cheese Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Cheddar Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf cheese, cut from 640 Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, English Fred Hart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, VT Hollow...... 98.75 Vintage Cheddar Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Middlebury Cheese Team, Cabot Creamery Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Cape Meares Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Cheddar, Vermont Cheddar...... 98.65 Three Year Timothy Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Justin McCormack, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Aged 2+ Cheddar cheese, cut from 640...... 98.5 years Cheddar Tony Ignaczak, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, Eddie Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, NY, Cheddar, New York Vintage...... 98.3 Cheddar, Vermont Vintage Choice Chris Holmes, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, Schaeffer Max, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, NY, Cheddar, Cabot NY Adirondack...... 98.3 Cheddar Aged 2+ NATHAN PISTNER, Great Lakes Cheese of NY, Alic Suljo, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Adams, NY, CHEDDAR...... 98.3 Cheddar Aged 2+

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 5 Jim Grant, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Cheddar, Vermont Vintage Choice CLASS 6: BANDAGED CHEDDAR, Appleton, WI, 60184...... 98.65 GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, MILD TO MEDIUM Cesar Luis, Cesar’s Cheese, Random Lake, WI, Brattleboro, VT, 3 Year Cheddar Rind Bandaged Cheddar...... 98.5 Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Wayne Hintz, Springside Cheese Corp, Oconto BEST OF CLASS Plain, WI, 3 year cheddar Falls, WI, Cheddar Black Wax Favorite...... 98.2 Saxon Cheese LLC, Saxon Cheese LLC, Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Cleveland, WI, Old English Style Cheddar, Kevin Rachu, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Aged Cheddar 2+ yr aged 5mon...... 99.1 WI, Medium Bandaged Cheddar...... 98.05 Yellow Luke Everhart, Ashe County Cheese, West Jefferson, SECOND AWARD Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, NC, Black Wax Cheddar Midget Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Theresa, WI, Four Year Old Aged Cheddar Deitch Stephanie, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Appleton, WI, ...... 99.05 Team Black Creek on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Bandaged Medium Cheddar Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, 3 year Cheddar THIRD AWARD Hidanovic Haris, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Aged Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Company, Bandaged Medium Cheddar Shullsburg, WI, Roelli Haus Select Mild...... 98.9 Silva Joe, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Aged 2+ Inc., Algoma, WI, Traditional Red Waxed Bandage Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Eric Steltenpohl, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, Style Daisy Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Aged Cheddar 2+ yr WI, Old English Style Cheddar, aged 4mon.. 98.85 Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Yellow Kerry Henning, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Inc., Algoma, WI, Traditional Cheddar Midget Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf White Cheddar Midget...... 98.85 Hernandez Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, 10 Year Cheddar Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Bandaged Medium Cheddar Appleton, WI, 59228...... 98.65

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6 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Shatto Milk Company, Shatto Milk Company, Osborn, Felimon Aguirre, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Team Union Star, Union Star Corp, Fremont, WI, MO, 2 Month Bandaged Cheddar Old English Farmhouse Style Cheddar Aged 24 Traditional Colby Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, months Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Colby Inc., Algoma, WI, Heritage Cheddar Saxon Creamery, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Longhorn Old English Farmhouse Style Cheddar Aged 23 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Colby months Longhorn CLASS 7: BANDAGED CHEDDAR, SHARP TO AGED Colby Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Colby Deli-Horn BEST OF CLASS CLASS 8: COLBY Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Colby Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Longhorn Appleton, WI, 45826 vat 3...... 99.15 BEST OF CLASS Colby Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Colby LaGrander’s Cheese Team #2, LaGrander’s Deli-Horn SECOND AWARD Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Colby Team 3 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Deli GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Longhorn...... 98.75 Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Queen of Quality Longhorn Clothbound Cheddar Reserve...... 98.7 SECOND AWARD Team 4 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Deli Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Longhorn THIRD AWARD Cheese, Kiel, WI, Colby Midget...... 98.6 GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Queen of Quality THIRD AWARD Clothbound Cheddar...... 98.65 Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy CLASS 9: MONTEREY JACK Cooperative, Wilson, WI, Colby #1...... 98.45

Murray’s Cheese, Murray’s Cheese, Long Island BEST OF CLASS City, NY, Murray’s Clothbound Cheddar...... 98.6 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Monterey Jack...... 99.4 GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Colby Southwest...... 98.1 Brattleboro, VT, Vermont Clothbound LaGrander’s Cheese Team #3, LaGrander’s SECOND AWARD Cheddar...... 98.35 Hillside Dairy, Stanley, WI, Colby Longhorn... 98.05 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Simic Aleksandar, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin NM, Monterey Jack...... 99.35 Brattleboro, VT, Vermont Clothbound Falls, ID, Colby...... 97.95 THIRD AWARD Cheddar Reserve...... 98.1 LaGrander’s Cheese Team #1, LaGrander’s Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook Kerry Henning, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Colby County Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Monterey Bandaged Cheddar...... 98 Longhorn...... 97.9 Jack...... 99.15 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Team Alto on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Cave Aged Cheddar...... 97.85 Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Colby Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Saxon Creamery, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cheese...... 97.75 Monterey Jack...... 99 Cleveland, WI, Old English Farmhouse Style Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Cheddar Aged 28 months...... 97.8 Deli Longhorn...... 97.6 Monterey Jack...... 98.85 Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Slone Kevin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Kiel, WI, Cheddar Daisy...... 97.8 ID, Colby...... 97.55 Monterey Jack...... 98.5 Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Burnett Dairy- Cheese, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Cheddar Wilson, WI, Colby #2 Zukic Sejad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Monterey Jack...... 98.4 Alise Sjostrom, Redhead Creamery, Brooten, MN, Wayne Hintz, Springside Cheese, Oconto Falls, WI, Lucky Linda Clothbound Cheddar Colby Longhorn Zuko Mirsad, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Monterey Jack...... 98.35 Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Colby Inc., Algoma, WI, Traditional Black Waxed White Southwest Ken Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont Monterey Jack...... 98.35 Cheddar Flat Rochester Team 4, AMPI-Rochester, Rochester, MN, Felimon Aguirre, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Colby cut from 640 Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Monterey Jack...... 98.35 Old English Farmhouse Style Cheddar Aged 20 Dairy Farmers of America, Utah, Dairy Farmers of months America, Beaver, UT, 2 Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, CA, Monterey Jack Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Appleton, WI, Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Deli 34289 vat 3 Longhorn LaGrander’s Cheese Team #3, LaGrander’s Hillside Dairy, Stanley, WI, Monterey Jack Longhorn Kulasevic Jadranka, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, ID, Bandaged Sharp Cheddar Theresa, WI, Traditional Colby John Fagundes, Fagundes Old-World Cheese, Hanford, CA, Hanford Jack Wayne Hintz, Springside Cheese Corp, Oconto Falls, Sant Laura, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Colby WI, Cheddar Black Wax Favorite Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Colby Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Colby Wilson, WI, Monterey Jack #1 Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Company, Shullsburg, WI, Longhorn Roelli Haus Select Aged Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Leaf Clock Shadow Creamery Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, Monterey Jack Parlov Benko, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Plain, WI, Double Cream Colby Bandaged Sharp Cheddar Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Colby Wilson, WI, Monterey Jack #2 Hobson Lief, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Southwest Bandaged Sharp Cheddar Rick Lehr, Agropur, Hull, IA, Monterey Jack (cut 640) Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Cheese Inc, Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Appleton, WI, Plain, WI, Colby Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, 33654 vat 3 Monterey Jack

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Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, 640) Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Colby Low Moisture Mozzarella, Whole Milk...... 97.55 Wayne Hintz, Red Barn Family Farms, Appleton, WI, Jack 58601 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Colby- THIRD AWARD Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, JCC-Team 2, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Monterey Jack Jack Longhorn Lake Norden, sd, LMWM Mozzarella...... 97.45 JCC-Team 3, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Monterey Jack Burnett Dairy, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Wilson, WI, Gold’N Jack #2 LaGranders Cheese Team #2, LaGrander’s Hillside Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Monterey Jack Longhorn Cedar Grove Cheese, Cedar Grove Cheese, Plain, WI, Marble Colby Lake Norden, SD, LMWM Mozzarella...... 96.3 Ken Heiman, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Monterey Jack Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Colby Jack Buffalo, NY, Sorrento Whole Milk Low Team Alto on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Moisture Mozzarella...... 96.15 Cheese, Richfield, WI, Monterey Jack Cheese Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Jack Deli Longhorn Tony’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, WM Mozz...... 96.05 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Leaf Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Monterey Jack Moisture Mozzarella, Whole Milk...... 95.6 CLASS 11: SWISS STYLE CHEESE Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Moisture Mozzarella, Whole Milk...... 95.35 CLASS 10: MARBLED CURD CHEESE BEST OF CLASS C.V. 2nd shift Team, Cedar Valley Cheese, Inc., Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Begium, WI, Whole Milk Mozzarella...... 95.3 BEST OF CLASS Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 200lb Aged Chilton Team, Foremost Farms USA, Chilton, Sam Metzger, Agropur, Hull, IA, Colby Jack Emmental block...... 99.75 WI, Low Moisture Whole Milk Mozzarella...... 95.25 (cut 640)...... 98.6 SECOND AWARD Arturo’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, WM Mozz SECOND AWARD Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, JCC-Team 3, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Low Moisture Whole Hernandez Jesse, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin oH, Swiss Cheese...... 99.1 Milk Mozzarella Falls, ID, Colby Jack...... 98.5 Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Moisture THIRD AWARD Mozzarella, Whole Milk THIRD AWARD Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Roger Schmith, Agropur, Hull, IA, Colby Jack Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 200lb Swiss Block98.9. Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Whole Milk (cut 640)...... 98.3 Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, NY, Galbani Whole Milk Low Moisture Mozzarella Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Craig Schelling, Foremost Farms USA, Athens, WI, Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 200lb Swiss Block98.7. Maker of Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, WM Mozzarella Silvan Blum, Chalet Cheese/ Deppeler Factory, CA, Marbled Jack Cheese...... 98.25 Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Whole Monroe, WI, 20# Swiss wheel...... 98.35 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Milk Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Colby Jack...... 98.1 Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 200lb Aged Nampa Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Fehratovic Sabahudin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Nampa, ID, Galbani Whole Milk Low Moisture Emmental block...... 97.35 Twin Falls, ID, Colby Jack...... 97.9 Mozzarella Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Kim Heiman, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, JCC-Team 1, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Low Moisture Whole Swiss Cheese...... 97.15 WI, Colby Jack...... 97.9 Milk Mozzarella Team Guggisberg Sugarcreek, Guggisberg Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Colby Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Whole Milk Cheese, Millersburg, OH, 200lb Swiss Wheel97. Jack Deli Longhorn...... 97.75 Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Mark Gustafson, Lanco Pennland, Hancock, MD, Bongards Perham, Bongards Creameries, Whole Milk Vona Mozzarella Swiss Cheese...... 96.75 Perham, MN, Block...... 97.55 Casey Petak, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Team Appleton, Foremost Farms USA, Appleton, WI, Shawn Sadler, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Colby/Jack.97.5 6# LMWM Middlefield, OH, Swiss cheese...... 95.9 Bongards Perham2, Bongards Creameries, Perham, Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, KEITH BABLER, Cascade Cheese Co, Cascade, WI, MN, Block WMMOZZ17 Swiss Cheese...... 95.9 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Colby Connor Bowman, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Jack Middlefield, OH, Swiss cheese

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 9 Fresh Mozzarella Team-John Peck, Maplebrook Farm, CLASS 13: MOZZARELLA, PART SKIM CLASS 14: FRESH MOZZARELLA Bennington, VT, Ciliegene Belfiore, Belfiore Cheese Company, Berkeley, CA, BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Burrata Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella...... 98.85 Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Fresh Mozzaerlla...... 99.5 SECOND AWARD CLASS 15: PROVOLONE, MILD Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, SECOND AWARD Part Skim...... 98.8 Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers BEST OF CLASS Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, THIRD AWARD Fresh Mozzarella...... 99.45 Provolone cheese...... 98.95 Terry Lenmsire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella...... 98.75 THIRD AWARD SECOND AWARD Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Arturo’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, Mild Prov.98.8 Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Ernesto’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, LMPS Mozz.. 98.7 Fresh Mozzarella...... 99.4 THIRD AWARD Roger L. Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Mild...... 98.75 Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella...... 98.65 Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Farmstead Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Fresh Lake Norden, SD, LMPS Mozzarella...... 98.65 Mozzaeralla...... 99.2 Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Provolone cheese...... 98.7 Anselmo’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, LMPS Mozz98.5. Phil Frater, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, Nampa Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella Ciliegine..... 99.2 Anselmo’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, Mild Prov..... 98.55 Group, Nampa, ID, Galbani Low Moisture Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, IL, Chilton Team, Foremost Farms USA, Chilton, Part Skim Mozzarella...... 98.45 Burrata...... 99.2 WI, Provolone...... 98.45 Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Andy Gerrits, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Buffalo, NY, Galbani Low Moisture Part Bay, WI, BelGioioso Burrata - 4 oz. Ball...... 99.1 Lake Norden, SD, Lipase Provolone...... 98.4 Skim Mozzarella...... 98.4 Burrata Team-John Peck, Maplebrook Farm, Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Provolone Ben Miller, Foremost Farms USA, Richland Bennington, VT, Burrata 2 piece...... 99.05 cheese...... 98.3 Center, WI, LMPS...... 98.35 Jared Ruechel, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, Craig Schelling, Foremost Farms USA, Athens, WI, PS Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella...... 99.05 WI, Mild Provolone...... 98.1 Mozzarella Team Reedsburg on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Roger L. Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, KEITH BABLER, Cascade Cheese Co, Cascade, WI, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Fresh Provolone cheese...... 98 LMPSMOZZ17 Mozzarella...... 99 Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Mild Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Lake Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, IL, Team Clayton A, Foremost Farms, USA, Clayton, WI, Norden, SD, LMPS Mozzarella Nodini Knots...... 99 Provolone natural Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Low Moisture Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, IL, 1oz Candido’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, Mild Prov Part Skim Mozzarella Fresh Mozz Slice Tub Mark Gustafson, Lanco Pennland, Hancock, MD, Tony’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, LMPS Mozz Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Secaucus, Vona Provolone Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Part Skim NJ, Fresh Mozzarella Ciliegine Team A, Dairy Farmers of America - New Wilmington, JCC-Team 1, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Low Moisture Part Belfiore, Belfiore Cheese Company, Berkeley, CA, Fior New Wilmington, PA, Mild Provolone Skim Mozzarella Di Latte Fresh Mozzarella 8 oz Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Lake C.V. 1st shift Team, Cedar Valley Cheese, Inc., Miceli Specialty Team, Miceli Dairy Products, Norden, SD, Provolone Begium, WI, Part Skim Mozzarella Cleveland, OH, Log Team Clayton B, Foremost Farms, USA, Clayton, WI, Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Creamery, Provolone Natural NY, Sorrento Low Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Providence, RI, Ovolini Mozzarella in Water C. V. 2nd shift team, Cedar Valley Cheese, Inc., Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Part Skim Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Secaucus, Begium, WI, Provolone NJ, Fresh Mozzarella Bocconcino Mark Gustafson, Lanco Pennland, Hancock, MD, Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, LMPS Vona Mozzarella Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Group, Nampa, NY, Sorrento Provolone ID, Galbani Fresh Mozzarella Bocconcini JCC-Team 3, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Low Moisture Part Team Appleton, Foremost Farms USA, Appleton, WI, Skim Mozzarella Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Group, Nampa, Mild Provolone ID, Galbani Fresh Mozzarella Soft Pouch Team Appleton, Foremost Farms USA, Appleton, WI, Team 1, Dairy Farmers of America - New Wilmington, 6# LMPS Team Aguas, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, IL, New Wilmington, PA, Provolone Ovoline Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, KEITH BABLER, Cascade Cheese Co, Cascade, WI, LMPS Mozzarella Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Group, Nampa, PR17 ID, Galbani Fresh Mozzarella sliced log Team 1, Dairy Farmers of America - New Wilmington, Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Mild New Wilmington, PA, Low Moisture Part Skim Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Fresh Mozzarella Team A, Dairy Farmers Of America - New NY, Sorrento Mild Provolone Wilmington, New Wilmington, PA, LMPS Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, Mozzarella Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Bocconcini Mild Provolone Miceli Specialty Team, Miceli Dairy Products, Dan Holmes, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, Cleveland, OH, Ovolini BelGioioso Mild Provolone 12# Salame

10 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Maker of Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Smoked Team Rizo Lopez, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Modesto, Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, CA, Provolone Provolone CA, unknown Chilton Team, Foremost Farms USA, Chilton, WI, Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC, Rosemont, IL, Smoked Provolone 10lb Bucket of Ricotta from Nuestro Queso CLASS 16: PROVOLONE, AGED Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, Losurdo Foods Ricotta crew, Losurdo foods Inc, Smoked Provolone Heuvelton, NY, BC 3 lb Ricotta BEST OF CLASS Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, Team Clayton B, Foremost Farms,USA, NY, Sorrento Smoked Provolone Clayton, WI, Provolone aged...... 99.15 Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, CLASS 19: PARMESAN NY, Sorrento Smoked Mild Provolone SECOND AWARD Team Clayton A, Foremost Farms, USA, KIETH BABLER, Cascade Cheese Co, Cascade, WI, BEST OF CLASS Clayton, WI, Provolone aged...... 99 SMPR17 Dan Szczepanski, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Parmesan...... 99.75 THIRD AWARD Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, SECOND AWARD Aged...... 98.75 CLASS 18: RICOTTA Steve Bierhals, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso American Grana.99.5 BEST OF CLASS THIRD AWARD Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Aged98.7. Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Ernesto’s Team, DFA, Turlock, CA, Aged Prov...... 98.55 Petaluma, CA, Whole Milk Jersey Basket Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Cello Copper Kettle Ricotta...... 99.5 Kevin Benzel, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Parmesan Wheel...... 99.45 Bay, WI, BelGioioso Aged Provolone SECOND AWARD Mandarini...... 98 Tomas Robles, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Erin Radtke, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Ricotta con Sartori Classic Parmesan...... 99.35 Lake Norden, SD, Sharp Provolone...... 97.85 Latte Whole Milk...... 99.3 Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, THIRD AWARD Fairfield, NJ, Cello Copper Kettle Parmesan.98.9 Aged...... 97.85 Joe Taranto, Montena Taranto Foods, Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Ridgefield, NJ, Traditional Italian...... 98.9 Fairfield, NJ, Cello Artisan Parmesan Wheel.98.75 CLASS 17: SMOKED PROVOLONE Eau Galle Cheeese Factory Team, Eau Galle Ricotta Team, Lactalis American Group, Cheese Factory, Durand, WI, Parmesan...... 98.7 Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Milk Based Ricotta.98.65 BEST OF CLASS Team Almena on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Team Salazar, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, IL, Ricotta Red...... 98.65 Parmesan Cheese...... 98.7 Lake Norden, sd, Smoked Provolone...... 98.75 Team Salazar, Caputo Cheese, Melrose Park, Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, SECOND AWARD IL, Ricotta Red 16oz...... 98.5 Fairfield, NJ, Cello Organic Copper Kettle Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Team Rizo Lopez, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Parmesan Wheel...... 98.55 Smoked...... 98.7 Modesto, CA, unknown...... 98.35 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, THIRD AWARD Ricotta Team, Lactalis American Group, Blackfoot, ID, Parm...... 98.45 C. V. 2nd shift team, Cedar Valley Cheese, Buffalo, NY, Whole Milk Whey Ricotta...... 98.3 Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Inc., BELGIUM, WI, Smoked Provolone...... 98.65 Paul Torres, BelGioioso Cheese Inc, Green Bay, Fairfield, NJ, Cello Artisan Reserve Parmesan Wheel WI, BelGioioso Ricotta...... 98.3 Larry Steckbauer, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Team Appleton, Foremost Farms USA, Saputo Lena 1st, Saputo Cheese USA, Lena, Sartori Reserve SarVecchio Parmesan Appleton, WI, Smoked Provolone...... 98.55 WI, Impasta...... 98.1 Team- AMPI, AMPI- Hoven, Hoven, SD, Parmesan Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, Team Rizo Lopez, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Modesto, Cheese Wheel Smoked...... 98.5 CA, unknown Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Ricotta Team-John Peck, Maplebrook Farm, ID, Parmesan Smoked Provolone...... 98.35 Bennington, VT, Ricotta Alta Eau Galle Cheeese Factory Team, Eau Galle Cheese Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Smoked Ricotta Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, NY, Factory, Durand, WI, Aged Parmesan Provolone...... 98.25 Part Skim Whey Ricotta Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Ricotta Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, NY, Fairfield, NJ, Cello Organic Parmesan Wheel Lake Norden, SD, Smoked Lipase Provolone98. Whole Milk Ricotta Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Team Clayton D, Foremost Farms, USA, Joe Taranto, Montena Taranto Foods, Ridgefield, NJ, Sartori Farmhouse-Style Cheddar Clayton, WI, Smoked Provolone...... 97.75 Old Fashion Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Lake Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, ny, Team Rizo Lopez, Rizo Lopez Foods, Inc., Modesto, Norden, SD, Dry Salted Parmesan Smoked...... 97.65 CA, unkown Team Clayton C, Foremost Farms, USA, Clayton, WI, Joe Taranto, Montena Taranto Foods, Ridgefield, NJ, Smoked Provolone Classic Italian Team Clayton B, Foremost Farms, USA, Clayton, WI, Saputo Lena 3rd, Saputo Cheese USA, Lena, WI, Provolone Smoked Whole Milk Ricotta Team Clayton A, Foremost Farms, USA, Clayton, WI, Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Creamery, Smoked Provolone Providence, RI, Whole Milk Ricotta

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 11 Eau Galle Cheese Factory Team, Eau Galle Luana Swiss Cheese Team, Swiss Valley Farms, CLASS 20: FRESH ASIAGO Cheese Factory, Durand, WI, Aged Asiago...... 98.4 Monona, IA, Baby Swiss Block Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Team BHC, Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc., Millersburg, BEST OF CLASS Fairfield, NJ, CelloHand Crafted Asiago Wheel98.4. OH, Aged Sweeta Swiss Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team KS Selection, Costco Wholesale, NM, Southwest Asiago...... 99.3 Issaquah, WA, Kirkland Signature Asiago Cheese...... 98.25 SECOND AWARD CLASS 23: FETA Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Randy Krahenbuhl, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Asiago Viejo...... 98 Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Asiago...... 99.1 BEST OF CLASS Felimon Aguirre, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., THIRD AWARD Whole Milk Aged Asiago Aged 13mon Monroe, WI, Odyssey Feta...... 99.1 Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, SECOND AWARD Cleveland, WI, Whole Milk Asiago (Fresh Asiago Viejo Style) Aged 4mon...... 98.75 Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta Bruce Workman, Fair oaks Farms, Fair Oaks, IN, cheese...... 98.85 Asiago Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, M. Comotto/Team R&D, DairiConcepts, L.P., THIRD AWARD Southwest Asiago...... 98.7 Springfield, MO, Black Waxed Wheel Randy Timm, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta cheese...... 98.55 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Southwest Asiago...... 98.65 Asiago Viejo Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Feta Production-John Peck, Maplebrook Farm, Cleveland, WI, Whole Milk Asiago (Fresh Cleveland, WI, Whole Milk Aged Asiago Aged Bennington, VT, Whole Milk Block Feta...... 98.3 Style) aged 3mon...... 98.55 16mon Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Websterville, VT, Feta...... 98.25 Fresh Whole Milk Asiago...... 98.5 Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, CLASS 22: BABY SWISS STYLE cheese...... 98.1 Fresh Whole Milk Asiago...... 98.45 Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Eau Galle Cheese Factory Team, Eau Galle BEST OF CLASS WI, Odyssey Feta...... 97.95 Cheese Factory, Durand, WI, Fresh Asiago.... 98.4 Casey Petak, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Charles J Krause, Tucumcari Mountain Cheese Maksic Mirjana, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Middlefield, OH, Baby Swiss cheese...... 99.4 Factory, INC., Tucumcari, NM, Feta...... 97.85 Falls, ID, Asiago...... 98.3 SECOND AWARD Nathan Forseth, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta Kevin Rachu, NASONVILLE DAIRY INC., Marshfield, cheese...... 97.55 WI, Asiago Team Guggisberg Doughty Valley, Guggisberg Cheese, Millersburg, OH, Baby Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Shobe Steven, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Swiss Wheel...... 99.1 Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Asiago Phetamias...... 97.35 THIRD AWARD Sanchez Francisco, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Jim Demeter, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, ID, Asiago Odyssey Feta Full Cream Baby Swiss Deli Style Loaf...... 98.7 Laurie Neal, Laurel’s Crown LLC, Wenatchee, WA, Belfiore, Belfiore Cheese Company, Berkeley, CA, Feta Bebe in Brine Gary Sloan Jr., Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Middlefield, OH, Baby Swiss cheese...... 98.55 American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, Feta - CLASS 21: AGED ASIAGO (OVER 6 MONTHS) Mike Nelson, Chalet Cheese Co-op, Monroe, 1.25 lb WI, 40# Block Baby Swiss...... 98.4 Team Nasonville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo BEST OF CLASS Joey Jaeggi, Chalet Cheese Co-op, Monroe, WI, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Nikos Traditional Team Almena on behalf of Saputo, Saputo 40# Block Baby Swiss...... 98.25 Feta Cheese Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Full Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Aged Asiago...... 99.3 Cream Baby Swiss Deli Style Loaf...... 98 American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, Crumbled Feta - 6 oz. SECOND AWARD Ryan Shaheen, Rothenbuhler Cheesemakers, Middlefield, oh, Baby Swiss cheese...... 97.85 Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Odyssey Feta WI, Sartori Reserve Extra-Aged Asiago...... 99.1 Mark Grossen, White Hill Cheese, Shullsburg, WI, Grassfed Baby Swiss Reserve...... 97.4 Geovany Chavez, Tucumcari Mountain Cheese THIRD AWARD Shullsburg Team, Swiss Valley Farms, Monona, Factory, INC,., Tucumcari, NM, Feta Erin Radtke, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, IA, Baby Swiss Wheel...... 97.15 Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Creamery, Sartori Classic Asiago...... 98.95 Swiss Team, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Baby Providence, RI, Feta Cheese Swiss Loaf Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Lake Country Dairy Team, Arthur Schuman Team Guggisberg Doughty Valley, Guggisberg Cheese, American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, Inc, Fairfield, NJ, Cello Hand Crafted Asiago Millersburg, OH, Baby Swiss Wheel Crumbled Feta - 24 oz. Wheel...... 98.9 Lindsey Mendes, Central Coast Creamery, Paso Mike Schultz, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Lake Country Dairy Team, Arthur Schuman Robles, CA, Holey Cow Feta Inc, Fairfield, NJ, Cello Extra Aged Asiago Neal Schwartz, Chalet Cheese/ Deppeler Factory, Charles J Krause, Tucumcari Mountain Cheese Wheel...... 98.85 Monroe, WI, 20# Baby Swiss wheel Factory, INC,., Tucumcari, NM, Feta Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Aged Team BHC, Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc., Millersburg, David Lindgren, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, WI, Feta Asiago Batch# 5...... 98.5 OH, Mild Sweeta Swiss Loaf Rick Lechner, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Feta Loaf 12 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST

Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, CLASS 24: FETA, FLAVORED Havarti...... 98.65 Havarti Dill Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Jeff Gundlach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti BEST OF CLASS WI, Havarti...... 98.6 with a Hint of Dill Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello, WI, Monroe, WI, Odyssey Mediterranean Feta.....99.35 WI, Havarti...... 98.35 Dill Havarti SECOND AWARD Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farms, Fair Oaks, IN, WI, Havarti...... 98.35 Onion Havarti Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta with Peppercorn...... 99.3 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Havarti...... 98.25 Dill Havarti THIRD AWARD Ken Henningson, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti Jim Demeter, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Havarti...... 98.2 with a Hint of Dill WI, Odyssey Peppercorn Feta...... 99.05 Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Havarti...... 98.15 Dill Havarti Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta Shatto Milk Company, Shatto Milk Company, Osborn, Zack Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti with Peppercorn...... 99 MO, Havarti- Shelf Ripened Wheel caraway Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Duane Petersen, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, creamy Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks FArms, Fair oaks, IN, Dill WI, Odyssey Peppercorn Feta...... 99 Havarti Havarti Matt Erdley, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Nathan Borst, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Creamy Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Odyssey Tomato & Basil Feta...... 98.95 Havarti Roth Horseradish Havarti Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Valley Viewcheese team, Valley View, South Wayne, WI, Odyssey Peppercorn Feta...... 98.9 Havarti WI, Dill Havarti Klinedinst Family, J2K CAPRAIO, Walkerton, IN, Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Feta marinated with Mediterranean Herbs Havarti & Condiments in EVOO Blend...... 98.85 Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, CLASS 27: STRING CHEESE Jim Demeter, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Havarti WI, Odyssey Mediterranean Feta...... 98.75 Zack Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, creamy BEST OF CLASS Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Havarti Cesar & Heydi, Cesar’s Cheese, Random WI, Odyssey Tomato & Basil Feta...... 98.65 Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Creamy Lake, WI, Hand Stretched String Cheese. Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Havarti Batch 2...... 99.5 Odyssey Mediterranean Feta SECOND AWARD Jim Demeter, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Tomato & Basil Feta Mark Boelk, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V CLASS 26: HAVARTI, FLAVORED Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Mexican Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta with String Cheese...... 99.3 Basil & Tomato BEST OF CLASS Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta with Basil THIRD AWARD Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy Inc., & Tomato Little Cesar & Damaris, Cesar’s Cheese, Brodhead, WI, Havarti Mediterranean Herb.99.25 Random Lake, WI, Hand Stretched String Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta with CheeseBatch 3...... 99.2 Garlic & Herb SECOND AWARD Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Feta with Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Garlic & Herb Monroe, WI, Dill Havarti...... 99.1 Team Two, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, String Cheese...... 99.05 Team Nasonville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo THIRD AWARD Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Nikos Valerie Arechiga, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Dan Schwind, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St Cloud, WI, Low Moisture part-skim Mediterranean Feta Cheese Falls, ID, Havarti/Garlic...... 99 mozzarella string cheese...... 98.85 Charles J Krause, Tucumcari MOuntain Cheese Factory, INC,., Tucumcari, NM, Feta Larry Brown, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, St Cloud, WI, Low Moisture Part-skim Havarti caraway...... 98.95 mozzarella string cheese...... 98.8 Strbac Nikola, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Cesar Luis, Cesar’s Cheese, Random Lake, WI, ID, Havarti/Dill...... 98.95 CLASS 25: HAVARTI Cesar’s String Cheese 1st batch...... 98.8 Villagomez Jose, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Tim Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, BEST OF CLASS Falls, ID, Havarti/Sweet Onion...... 98.95 St Cloud, WI, Low Moisture Part-skim Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Ken Henningson, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, mozzarella string cheese...... 98.7 Fitchburg, WI, Whole Milk Havarti...... 99.15 WI, Havarti Dill...... 98.9 C.V. 1st shift Team, Cedar Valley Cheese, Inc., SECOND AWARD Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Belgium, WI, String Cheese...... 98.7 Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farms, Fair Havarti with a hint of Dill...... 98.8 Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Oaks, IN, Havarti...... 99 Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Havarti with a Hint of Dill...... 98.7 String Cheese Skinny Sticks...... 98.65 THIRD AWARD Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Brian Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St Cloud, WI, Low moisture part-skim moaazrella string Monticello, WI, Havarti...... 98.7 Havarti Dill cheese Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Dill Havarti

14 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Farmstead Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, Matt Sautner, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Kewaunee, Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, String Cheese Sticks String Cheese WI, Ponderosa Farmstead String Cheese Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Farmstead Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Farmers Rope String Inc., Algoma, WI, Handcut String Cheese Cheese String Cheese Team, Lactalis American Group, CLASS 28: FLAVORED STRING CHEESE Team Baker # 1, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, Nampa, ID, Galbani Low Moisture Part Skim La Farge, WI, Organic String Cheese Mozzarella String BEST OF CLASS Tom Dahmen, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Gary Cherney, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Kewaunee, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Foods, Browntown, WI, Mexican String Cheese WI, Ponderosa Farmstead String Cheese Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Strings Team Three, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, String Team Baker # 2, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, of Cheese TRUFFLE OIL & BASIL...... 98.7 Cheese La Farge, WI, Organic String Cheese SECOND AWARD Andy Rufener, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Francisco Ochoa, Ochoa’s Queseria, Albany, OR, Don Kevin Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, Foods, Browntown, WI, Mexican String Cheese Froylan Liliana’s String Cheese St Cloud, WI, Jalapeno peppers...... 98.55 Team One, Empire Cheese, Inc., Cuba, NY, String Lena, Saputo USA, Lena, WI, Part Skim String Cheese Cheese THIRD AWARD Nampa String Team, Lactalis American Group, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Tim Pehl, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Nampa, ID, Galbani Provolone String Cheese Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Strings Foods, Browntown, WI, Mexican String Cheese Bryon Schroeder, Schroeder Kase LLC, Rewey, WI, of Cheese MARINATED...... 98.5 String Cheese Team, Lactalis American Group, Hand Stretched Nampa, ID, Galbani Organic Low Moisture Part Ben Shibler, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Kewaunee, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Skim Mozzarella String Cheese WI, Ponderosa Farmstead String Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Strings of Cheese EVERYTHING BAGEL...... 98.25

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UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 15 Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, Sequatchie Cove Creamery, Sequatchie Cove WI, Smoked String Cheese...... 97.9 CLASS 30: GORGONZOLA Creamery, Sequatchie, TN, Bellamy Blue Shawn Brown, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St batch 299...... 97.7 Cloud, WI, Jalapeno peppers...... 97.85 BEST OF CLASS Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes Products Team, Ponderosa Dairy Products, Team Salemville on behalf of Saputo, Farmstead Cheese Company, Point Reyes, CA, Point Reyes Bay Blue...... 97.2 Kewaunee, WI, Fiesta String Cheese...... 97.7 Saputo Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, Salemville Gorgonzola Cheese...... 99.65 Peter Messmer, Lively Run Dairy, Interlaken, NY, Lively Run Blue Yonder...... 97.2 WI, Hot Pepper String Cheese...... 97.7 SECOND AWARD Jasper Hill, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro Larry Brown, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St Team KS selection, Costco Wholesale, Bend, VT, Bayley Hazen Blue...... 97 Cloud, WI, Jalapeno peppers...... 97.65 Issaquah, WA, Kirkland Signature American Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, Blue...... 99.35 Blue Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR, Organic Tolman Blue...... 96.8 WI, Horseradish Chive String Cheese...... 97.25 THIRD AWARD Meadowood Farms, Meadowood Farms, Saputo USA Lena, Saputo USA, Lena, WI, PS Team Seymour, Great Lakes Cheese Cazenovia, NY, Lincklaen...... 96.4 ...... Pepper Jack String 97.25 Seymour, Inc., Seymour, WI, Gorgonzola...... 99.3 Tim Entringer, Baker Cheese Factory Inc, St Cloud, Rogue River Blue, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, WI, Jalapeno peppers with Habanero peppers OR, Rogue River Blue Imperia Foods Montfort WI team 1, Schuman Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Montforte Gorgonzola Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Strings of Cheese DILL Wheel...... 98.95 CLASS 32: BLUE VEINED CHEESES Joe Taranto, Montena Taranto Foods, Ridgefield, NJ, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Marinated String Sartori Reserve Dolcina Gorgonzola...... 98.6 BEST OF CLASS Joe Taranto, Montena Taranto Foods, Ridgefield, NJ, Team Seymour, Great Lakes Cheese Seymour, Nigella Seed Imperia Foods Montfort WI team, Schuman Inc., Seymour, WI, Gorgonzola...... 98.55 Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Montforte Bleu Wheel98.95. Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, Team KS Selection, Costco Wholesale, Chipotle Garlic String Cheese Issaquah, WA, Kirkland Signature American SECOND AWARD Blue...... 98.4 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Imperia Foods Montfort WI team 2, Schuman Fitchburg, WI, Roth Buttermilk Blue...... 98.45 CLASS 29: COTTAGE CHEESE Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Montforte Gorgonzola THIRD AWARD Wheel...... 98.1 Blue Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, BEST OF CLASS Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, OR, Organic Oregon Blue...... 97.7 Cottage Team, Westby Coop Creamery, WI, Roth Buttermilk Gorgonzola...... 98 Westby, WI, 4% Small Curd Cottage Cheese95. Simply Artisan Reserve, LITEHOUSE, Imperia Foods Montfort WI team, Schuman SANDPOINT, ID, Smooth Gorg...... 97.7 SECOND AWARD Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Montforte Bleu Wheel97.65. Simply Artisan Reserve, LITEHOUSE, SANDPOINT, ID, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Team Salemville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Gorgonzola Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 5% Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Salemville Fat Cottage Cheese...... 94.75 Mark Ruttner, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, Reserve Blue Cheese...... 97.6 BelGioioso CreamyGorg THIRD AWARD Team Salemville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Gillis Richards, Cabot Creamery Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Salemville Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont Style Inc., LaValle, WI, Glacier Point Gorgonzola Blue Cheese...... 97.45 Cottage Cheese...... 94.35 Caves of Faribault Tema, Caves of Faribault, Team Seymour, Great Lakes Cheese Seymour, Faribault, MN, Amagorg Cave Aged Gorgonzola Inc., Seymour, WI, Blue Cheese...... 97.3 Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Mineral crystal creamery, crystal creamery, modesto, Caves of Faribault Team, Caves of Faribault, Point, WI, Gorgonzola Dolce Faribault, MN, St. Pete’s Select Cave Aged CA, 4% cottage cheese...... 94.2 Blue Cheese...... 97.15 Cottage Team, Westby Coop Creamery, Westby, Team Salemville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo WI, 4% Large Curd Cottage Cheese...... 94 Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Salemville Cottage Team, Westby Coop Creamery, Westby, CLASS 31: BLUE VEINED CHEESES Vintage Blue Cheese...... 97.05 WI, 2% Small Curd Cottage Cheese...... 93.75 WITH EXTERIOR MOLDING Bryon Schroeder, Schroeder Kase LLC, Rewey, Gillis Richards, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, WI, Blue Cheese...... 97 Cabot, VT, Vermont Style Cottage Cheese...... 93.5 BEST OF CLASS Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes Farmstead von Trapp Farmstead, von Trapp Farmstead, Westby Team, Westby Cooperative Creamery, Cheese Company, Point Reyes, CA, Point Reyes Waitsfield, VT, Mad River Blue...... 99.3 Westby, WI, Good Culture Strawberry...... 93.25 Original Blue West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate SECOND AWARD Simply Artisan Reserve, LITEHOUSE, SANDPOINT, ID, Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 4% Blue Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, Creamy Blue Minimum Cottage Cheese...... 92.5 OR, Organic Caveman Blue...... 99.15 Simply Artisan Reserve, Litehouse, Sandpoint, ID, Westby Team, Westby Cooperative Creamery, THIRD AWARD Deep Blue, Lee Batrack Westby, WI, Good Culture Classic...... 92.25 Murray’s Cheese & Consider Bardwell, Great Hill Blue Cheese, Great Hill Dairy, Inc., Marion, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Niagara Murray’s Cheese, Long Island City, NY, MA, Great Hill Blue Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 4% Pineapple Barden Blue...... 98.45 Cottage Cheese Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Glacier Point Blue West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, 1% Cottage Cheese von Trapp Farmstead, von Trapp Farmstead, Blue Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR, Waitsfield, VT, Mad River Blue...... 98.4 Organic Crater Lake Blue

16 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Amick’s Choice, Clemson Blue Cheese, Clemson, SC, Bill Schaetzel, Agropur, Hull, IA, Muenster (cut 640) Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Blue Lot #7 Zimmerman Cheese AM Team, Zimmerman Cheese, American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, 3 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. South Wayne, WI, Brick kg. Brie...... 98.7 Inc., LaValle, WI, Glacier Penta Creme Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead Wi, WI, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Mineral Brick American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, 8 oz. Brie...... 98.65 Point, WI, Original Blue Zimmerman Cheese Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese, Team Seymour, Great Lakes Cheese Seymour, Inc., South Wayne, WI, Brick Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Traditional Brie...... 98.6 Seymour, WI, Extra Aged Blue Cheese Tri-State Dairy Team, Tri-State Dairy, Hicksville, OH, Rusty Figgins, Blue Mountain Affinage Company, Muenster Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Triple Creme Brie...... 98.5 Dayton, WA, Blue Mountain Blue Zimmerman Cheese Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese, South Wayne, WI, Brick Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Petite Camembert...... 98.5 Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farm, Fair Oaks, IN, CLASS 33: BRICK & MUENSTER Muenster MTC, Mt Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, WA, Cirrus- Pacific Northwest Camembert.... 98.5 Hansi Lehner, Valley View cheese, South Wayne, WI, BEST OF CLASS Muenster Jean Manuel Renard, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg Triple Cream Brie Luke Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Zimmerman Cheese Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese, Team Old Europe on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Monroe, WI, Brick...... 99.7 South Wayne, WI, Muenster Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Camembert SECOND AWARD Comstock Team, Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, Cheese Comstock, WI, Red Rind Muenster Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Team Old Europe on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Monroe, WI, Brick...... 99.6 Zimmerman Cheese AM Team, Zimmerman Cheese, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Double Creme South Wayne, WI, Muenster THIRD AWARD Brie Cheese Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Teresa Sandberg, Agropur, Hull, IA, Muenster (cut Jose Sanchez, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton 640) Monroe, WI, Brick...... 99.55 Harbor, MI, 8oz Slicing Brie Zimmerman Cheese PM Team, Zimmerman Cheese, Israel Gil, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, MI, South Wayne, WI, Muenster Camembert Traditionnel Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Zimmerman Cheese Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese, WI, Muenster...... 99.45 Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, South Wayne, WI, Muenster CA, Petite Creme John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, Comstock Team, Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, WI, Muenster...... 99.4 MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Company, Comstock, WI, Wisconsin Brick Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Camembert Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Valley View Cheese Team, valley view Cheese, South WI, Brick...... 99.2 chris Fellows, Haystack Mountain goat dairy, Wayne, WI, Brick longmont, CO, Cashmere Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Brick...... 99.2 Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Theresa, WI, Mild Brick Cheese American Group, Belmont, WI, 16 oz. Traditional Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, JCC-Team 1, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Muenster Brie Brick...... 99.15 Chris Holmes, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Team Old Europe on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Ken Henningson, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, Muenster, New York Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Triple Creme Brie WI, Brick...... 99.15 Cheese Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Muenster Torkelson Cheese Co., Torkelson Cheese Co., Dan Posselt, Kickaas LLC, Green Bay, WI, Ashed Brie Lena, IL, 6# Brick Cheese...... 99.1 Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, 01242017A Muenster Torkelson Cheese Co., Torkelson Cheese Co., Lena, Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, New IL, Muenster Holland, PA, Alouette Brie Ken Henningson, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Muenster CLASS 34: BRIE & CAMEMBERT Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Muenster BEST OF CLASS CLASS 35: OPEN CLASS: SOFT Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Jasper Hill, Cellars at Jasper Hill, RIPENED CHEESES Muenster Greensboro Bend, VT, Moses Sleeper...... 99.4 Matt Erdley, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, SECOND AWARD BEST OF CLASS Muenster Israel Gil, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Jasper Hill, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro Bend, VT, Harbison...... 99.75 Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Harbor, MI, 3 Kg Double Cream Brie...... 99.05 Muenster THIRD AWARD SECOND AWARD John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Green Hill, Sweet Grass Dairy, Thomasville, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Brick American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, 1 GA, Green Hill...... 99 kg. Triple Cream...... 99.55 Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, muenster THIRD AWARD Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Zimmerman Cheese PM Team, Zimmerman Cheese, American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, South Wayne, WI, Brick Websterville, VT, St. Albans...... 99.5 19.6 oz Brie...... 98.85 Gary Grossen, Babcock Dairy Plant, Madison, WI, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Brick American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, 8 Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Ron Bechtolt, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, oz. Camembert...... 98.75 Petaluma, CA, Petite Supreme...... 99.35 Muenster

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 17 Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, 8 CLASS 36: EDAM & GOUDA ID, Gouda oz. Triple Cream...... 99.25 Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Gouda MTC, Mt. Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, BEST OF CLASS Wheel WA, Seastack: Pacific Northwest Original...... 99.1 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Gouda Deli Rick Woods Team, Vermont Farmstead Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Belegen...... 99.55 Horn Cheese Company, So. Woodstock, VT, Lillé SECOND AWARD Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Coulommiers...... 98.9 Gouda Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Murray’s Cheese & Four Fat Fowl, Murray’s Gouda wheel...... 99.5 Nijaz Heric, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Mild Cheese, Long Island City, NY, The Other Gouda Stephen...... 98.85 THIRD AWARD Marieke Gouda Team, Holland’s Family Cheese, Fons Smits, Tulip Tree Creamery, indianapolis, Marieke Gouda Team, Holland’s Family Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Belegen (4-6 month) IN, trillium...... 98.6 Cheese, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Belegen (4-6 month)...... 99.45 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, Colin McGrath, McGrath Cheese Company, ID, Gouda Poughkeepsie, NY, 5-7 weeks, bloomy rind pasteurized cows’ milk cheese with hints of Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Gouda orange hues...... 98.6 WI, Marieke Gouda Young...... 99.4 Wiggins Austin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, 3 kg. Mild Gouda Gouda Wheel...... 99.35 Triple Cream Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, Zach Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Team Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, ID, Gouda Gouda Loaf...... 99.2 Petaluma, CA, Petite Cendree Cesar Luis, Cesar’s Cheese, Random Lake, wi, Young Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Gouda 4/13/16 MTC, Mt. Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, WA, Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Twin Off Kilter Grove Gouda...... 99.2 Four Fat Fowl, Four Fat Fowl, Stephentown, NY, St. Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, Stephen soft-ripened triple cream Monticello, WI, Grass Gouda...... 99.2 CLASS 37: GOUDA, AGED von Trapp Farmstead, von Trapp Farmstead, Roger Pedat, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Waitsfield, VT, Mt. Alice, Harbor, MI, Gouda Wheel...... 99.15 BEST OF CLASS Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, Roger Pedat, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton CA, Supreme Brie Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Aged...... 99.65 Harbor, MI, 4 lb Edam Ball...... 98.75 Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Duane Petersen, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, SECOND AWARD Cheese, Connersville, IN, JQ Edam Loaf...... 98.75 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Gary Grossen, Babcock Dairy Plant, Madison, WI, Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Aged...... 99.6 Nicasio, CA, Tomino batch Gouda THIRD AWARD von Trapp Farmstead, von Trapp Farmstead, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Waitsfield, VT, Mt. Alice, Cleveland, WI, Gouda made 9-20-16 Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Mature...... 99.25 Nicasio Valley cheese, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Jacob & Sylvia Stolzfus, Jake’s Cheese, Deansboro, Nicasio, CA, Locarno Batch NY, Mild Gouda, artisanally crafted Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Gouda Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Gouda99.2. Cheese, Connersville, IN, Adair #341 Wheel Eric Steltenpohl, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, Rick Woods Team, Vermont Farmstead Cheese Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, WI, Gouda Aged 8mon...... 99.15 Company, South Woodstock, VT, Lillé Petite Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 3 mon Coulommiers Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Felimon Aquirre, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Rick Woods Team, Vermont Farmstead Cheese Gouda Aged 4mon Gouda...... 99.05 Company, South Woodstock, VT, Lillé Bébé Coulommiers Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Leaf John Dirk Bulk, Oakdale Cheese, Oakdale, CA, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Twin Grove Aged Gouda...... 99 Scholten Family Farm, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Gouda Greensboro, VT, Weybridge Jeff Gundlach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Eric Steltenpohl, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Gouda Wheel...... 98.95 Gouda Aged 2mon Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Leaf Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 10mon...... 98.95 Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Gouda Wheel Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Young Gouda Wheel...... 98.95 Gouda Batch Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello, WI, Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Edam Loaf Grass Based Aged Gouda Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Gouda Deli Gary Grossen, Babcock Dairy Plant, Madison, WI, Horn Aged Gouda Dave Perry, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Edam Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Leaf Marieke Gouda Mature Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Gouda Wheel Duane Petersen, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Gouda Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Edam Loaf Wheel

18 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Johannes Wakker, Wakker Cheese LLC, Kewaunee, Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Gouda Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, WI, Raw milk farmstead Gouda Wheel Smoked Gouda Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cvijetic Vlado, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 15mon Gouda/Black Olives & Garlic Inc., LaValle, WI, Smoked Gouda Jacob & Sylvia Stoltzfus, Jake’s Cheese, Deansboro, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Team 3 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Smoked NY, Gouda, aged, artisanally crafted Marieke Gouda Cumin Gouda Deli Horn Johannes Wakker, Wakker Cheese, Kewaunee, WI, Zach Schneider, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Gouda Jeff Gundlack, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Gouda Raw milk farmstead Gouda Wheel Wheel Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Scott Ness, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, Inc., LaValle, WI, Aged Gouda Marieke Gouda Onion Garlic MI, Natural Smoked Gouda Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Aged Gouda Marieke Gouda Team, Holland’s Family Cheese, Saric Zlatan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Batch Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Pesto Basil Smoked Gouda Tom Torkelson, NASONVILLE DAIRY INC., Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Vega Javier, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, MARSHFIELD, WI, Aged Gouda Marieke Gouda Mustard Melange Smoked Gouda AlAwad Adieb, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Team 4 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Smoked Aged Gouda Marieke Gouda Clove Gouda Deli Horn Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Leaf Roth Vintage Van Gogh Gouda Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 16mon with Roasted Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Smoked Gouda Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Aged Gouda Garlic & Sweet Pimento Catlin Creamery, Smith’s Country Cheese, Deli Horn Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Winchendon, MA, Smoked Gouda AlSudani Hayder, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Marieke Gouda Foenegreek Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Aged Gouda Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Espresso Smoked Gouda Anaya Juan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Aged Gouda Batch Umarov Mikail, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Gouda Mark Mosco, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Gouda with Smoked Gouda Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Jalapenos Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farms, FAir Oaks, IN, Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 24mon Hickory Smoked Gouda Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Aged Gouda Deli Horn CLASS 39: SMOKED GOUDA Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Gouda CLASS 40: FRESH HISPANIC Wheel BEST OF CLASS CHEESES (QUESOS FRESCOS) Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Smoked Gouda Aged 7mon...99.55 BEST OF CLASS CLASS 38: GOUDA, FLAVORED SECOND AWARD Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Eric Steltenpohl, Saxon Cheese LLC, Interantional, Hanford, CA, Queso Panela...... 99.85 BEST OF CLASS Cleveland, WI, Smoked Gouda Aged 8 mon. 99.15 SECOND AWARD Gonzales Christopher, Glanbia Nutritionals, THIRD AWARD Twin Falls, ID, Gouda/Green Olives & Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Cremoso.....99.8 Pimento...... 99.05 Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked Cumin....98.95 SECOND AWARD THIRD AWARD Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Gerardo Adame, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, WI, Queso Blanco...... 99.65 Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Truffle...... 98.5 WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked...... 98.8 THIRD AWARD Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, John(Randy) Pirtman, Mill Creek Cheese, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked...... 98.6 Arena, WI, Queso Blanco...... 99.6 Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda Bacon...... 98.1 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers WI, Marieke Gouda Smoked Cumin...... 98.55 International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Panela...... 99.6 Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, Cleveland, WI, Gouda Aged 14mon with Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, WI, Para Frier...... 99.6 Italian Spices...... 98.05 Smoked Gouda...... 98.5 Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., John Dirk Bulk, Oakdale Cheese, Oakdale, CA, Team 1 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco...... 99.6 Cumin Gouda...... 97.9 Smoked Gouda Deli Horn...... 98.45 W&W Dairy, W&W Dairy, Monroe, WI, 2 Kilo Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, Wi, Team 2 Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Queso Fresco...... 99.6 Gouda Wheel...... 97.9 Smoked Gouda Deli Horn...... 98.45 WCG Team, Wisconsin Cheese Group, Monroe, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Cesar Luis, Cesar’s Cheese, Random Lake, WI, WI, Panela...... 99.55 WI, Marieke Gouda Burning Melange...... 97.55 Applewood Smoked 9/7/16...... 98.45 MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Inc Ondriezek Aaron, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, (Bar-S), Darlington, WI, Queso Cremoso Falls, ID, Gouda/Chives...... 97.5 Gouda Wheel...... 98.45 (Double Crema)...... 99.5 Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Kyle Schwobe, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Industries, WI, Marieke Gouda Black Pepper Mix...... 97.5 Gouda Wheel...... 98.45 Inc., Perth Amboy, NJ, Panela Jeff Gundlach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Nathan Borst, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Gouda WCG Team, Wisconsin Cheese Group, Monroe, WI, Gouda Wheel Chipotle Pepper...... 97.4 Wheel Fresco

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 19 Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC {30679}, Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers International, Rosemont, IL, Queso Fresco from Nuestro Queso CLASS 41: HISPANIC MELTING Inc., Hanford, CA, Manchego MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Inc. (Bar-S), CHEESES(QUESO PARA FUNDIR) Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Interantional, Darlington, WI, Queso Panela (Basket) Hanford, CA, Quesadilla Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Interantional, Jeff Mattes, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo BEST OF CLASS Hanford, CA, Queso Cremoso Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese Casey Berget, Chula Vista Cheese Kirk Hansen, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Co./V&V Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Queso Blanco B Oaxaca Cheese Ball...... 99.35 Queso Quesadilla Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Industries, Zimmerman Cheese Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese, SECOND AWARD Inc., Perth Amboy, NJ, Queso Blanco South Wayne, WI, Asadero Wheel Tom Dahmen, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Tom Torkelson, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Oaxaca Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Interantional, Queso Blanco A Hanford, CA, Asadero Cheese Ball...... 99 MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Inc. (Bar-S), Zimmerman Cheese Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese, Darlington, WI, Queso Fresco Wheel THIRD AWARD South Wayne, WI, Baby Jack Wheel Torkelson Cheese Co., Torkelson Cheese Team V&V Supremo Foods, V&V Supremo Foods, Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Co., Lena, IL, Quesadilla...... 98.95 Inc.2, Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Queso Para Fundir Rodrigo Rodriquez, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Zimmerman Cheese Team, Zimmerman Cheese, Para Frier Tim Pehl, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V South Wayne, WI, Asadero Wheel Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Oaxaca Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Interantional, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Cheese Ball...... 98.85 Hanford, CA, Queso Casero Queso Para Fundir Francisco Ochoa, Ochoa’s Queseria, Albany, W&W Dairy, W&W Dairy, Monroe, WI, 5 Pound Licon Dairy, Licon Dairy Inc., San Elizario, Tx, Azadero OR, Don Froylan Queso Oaxaca...... 98.85 Fresco Loaf Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC, Rosemont, IL, Jon Jay Lewis, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Para Fundir cheese from Nuestro Queso Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Oaxaca Chicago, IL, Queso Caribe Cheese Ball...... 98.75 Lauro Castillo, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Para Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Frier Interantional, Hanford, CA, Queso Oaxaca.... 98.5 CLASS 42: HARD HISPANIC Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC {30679}, Chicago, IL, Queso Caribe CHEESES (QUESO DURO) Rosemont, IL, Nuestro Queso Oaxaca La Vaquita, Dairy Farmers of America, Houston, TX, Cheese...... 98.45 Queso Fresco Mexicano BEST OF CLASS Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Rick Lehr, Agropur, Hull, IA, Quesos Frescos (cut 640) Queso Quesadilla...... 98.45 Inc., Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC, Rosemont, IL, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, SECOND AWARD Blanco Cheese from Nuestro Queso WI, Asadero...... 98.4 MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Roberto Encarnación, Tropical Cheese Industries, Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Secaucus, Inc. (Bar-S), Darlington, WI, Cotija Wheel AF Inc., Perth Amboy, NJ, Queso Fresco NJ, Oaxaca Cheese MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Inc. (Bar-S), David Yanke, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Queso THIRD AWARD Darlington, WI, Queso Fresco N Wheel Para Fundir MCP Team, Mexican Cheese Producers, Inc. (Bar-S), Darlington, WI, Queso Cotija Wheel La Vaquita, Dairy Farmers of America, Houston, TX, Dan Reed, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Panela Fresca Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Queso Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Blanco Queso Quesadilla Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel Team V&V Supremo Foods, V&V Supremo Foods, Juan Herrera, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Asadero Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Inc., Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Farmstead Francisco Ochoa, Ochoa’s Queseria, Albany, OR, Don Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Oaxaca Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Froylan Queso Panela Queso Para Enchilada Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Interantional, Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC, Rosemont, IL, Hanford, CA, Queso Oaxaca W&W Dairy, W&W Dairy, Monroe, WI, Queso Cotija Panela Cheese from Nuestro Queso Micheal McGraw, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Queso Quesadilla Queso Para Enchilada Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC, Rosemont, IL, CannonBelles Cheese, CannonBelles Cheese, Queso Quesadilla Cotija cheese from Nuestro Queso Northfield, MN, Queso Fresco Nick Siedschlag, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Francisco Ochoa, Ochoa’s Queseria, Albany, OR, Don Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Chicago, IL, Cotija Wheel Froylan Queso Fresco Cheese Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Sam Metzger, Agropur, Hull, IA, Quesos Frescos (cut Nick Hanson, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Queso Queso Para Enchilada 640) Quesadilla John Fagundes, Fagundes Old-World Cheese, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Hanford, CA, Panela Queso Quesadilla WCG Team, Wisconsin Cheese Group, Monroe, WI, Zimmerman Cheese Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese, Queso Blanco South Wayne, WI, Asadero Wheel Sam Sweeney, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese

20 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Consider Bardwell Farm, Consider Bardwell Farm, CLASS 43: OPEN CLASS: SMEAR West Pawlet, VT, Dorset Washed-Rind Raw Cow’s CLASS 44: OPEN CLASS: SMEAR RIPENED RIPENED SOFT CHEESES milk cheese SEMI-SOFT (SEMI-HARD) CHEESES Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, CA, Schloss BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Jasper Hill, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Cheese, Connersville, IN, Ameribella Greensboro Bend, VT, Willoughby Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, Meadowood Farms, Meadowood Farms, Cazenovia, Everton Premium Reserve...... 99.55 SECOND AWARD NY, Juvindale SECOND AWARD Murray’s Cheese & Jasper Hill, Murray’s Rick Woods Team, Vermont Farmstead Cheese Cheese, Long Island City, NY, Greensward Company, South Woodstock, VT, Angeline Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Cheese, Connersville, IN, THIRD AWARD Willow Creek Creamery, Union Star Corp, Fremont, Everton #190...... 99.45 von Trapp Farmstead, Cellars at Jasper Hill, WI, Red Willow, a Wiscosin original soft washed Greensboro Bend, VT, Oma rind cheese THIRD AWARD Fons Smits, Tulip Tree Creamery, indianapolis, IN, Team Chalet on behalf of Saputo, foxglove Saputo Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Jasper Hill, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro Bend, Liederkranz Cheese...... 99.35 VT, Winnimere Alise Sjostrom, Redhead Creamery, Brooten, MN, North Fork Whiskey Washed Munster Joey Jaeggi, Chalet Cheese Co-op, Monroe, WI, 6 oz. Limburger Cheese Consider Bardwell Farm, Consider Bardwell Farm, Murray’s Cheese & Point Reyes, Murray’s West Pawlet, VT, Experience -- pasteurized Cheese, Long Island City, NY, Cornelia...... 99.1 MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Company, washed-rind cow milk cheese Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo ColoRouge Team Alpine - Lake Country Dairy, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Yellow Door Creamery Valis...... 99.05

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 21 Sequatchie Cove Creamery, Sequatchie Cove Consider Bardwell Farm, Consider Bardwell Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Creamery, Sequatchie, TN, Nickajack batch Farm, West Pawlet, VT, Rupert Raw cow Pepper Jack 331...... 99 milk Alpine style...... 98.25 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team Alpine - Lake Country Dairy, Schuman Andy Hatch, Uplands Cheese, Dodgeville, WI, Pepper Jack Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Yellow Door Creamery Extra-Aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve...... 98.2 Comstock Team, Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, Bambino...... 98.9 Murray’s Cheese & Spring Brook Farm, Comstock, WI, Hot Pepper Jack Spring Brook Farm, Farms For City Kids Murray’s Cheese, Long Island City, NY, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Leaf Foundation, Reading, VT, Reading--Semi-soft Project X...... 98 Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, Chipotle Jack Vermont Artisan Raclette...... 98.85 Jasper Hill, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro, VT, Daniel Clayton, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, leelanau cheese / John Hoyt, leelanau cheese, Alpha Tolman Hatch Pepper MJ suttons bay, MI, swiss style raclette, nutty, Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Jerry Fredrick, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Pepper buttery flavor, cellar aged, wash rind...... 98.8 Roth Pavino Jack Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, David Meyer, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, WI, Pepper WI, Roth Mezzaluna Fontina...... 98.65 Cleveland, WI, Alpine Style-Aged 8mon Jack Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Spring Brook Farm, Farms For City Kids Foundation, Cheese, Connersville, IN, Briana #212 Heber Valley Artisan Cheese, Heber Valley Artisan Reading, VT, Tarentaise Reserve Cheese, Midway, UT, Salsa Pepper Jack Consider Bardwell Farm, Consider Bardwell Farm, Cowgirl Creamery, Cowgirl Creamery, Petaluma, CA, Kim Heiman, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, West Pawlet, VT, Pawlet Raw Cow Milk semi-soft Wagon Wheel toma Pepper Jack Team Alpine - Lake Country Dairy, Schuman Cheese, Spring Brook Farm, Farms For City Kids Foundation, Fairfield, NJ, Yellow Door Creamery Altu Reading, VT, Ashbrook--Semi-soft Raw Milk Vermont Artisan Cheese Meadow Creek Dairy, Meadow Creek Dairy, Galax, CLASS 47: PEPPER FLAVORED VA, Mountaineer Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. MONTEREY JACK, MEDIUM HEAT Inc., LaValle, WI, Red Abbot Team Alpine - Lake Country Dairy, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Yellow Door Creamery Monteau Willow Creek Creamery, Union Star Corp, Fremontq, Sequatchie Cove Creamery, Sequatchie Cove BEST OF CLASS WI, St. Jeanne, a Wisconsin Original Trappist Style Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Cheese Creamery, Sequatchie, TN, Coppinger batch 312 NM, Pepper Jack...... 99.3 Matt Sorenson, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, MDC team, East Hill Creamery, LLC, Perry, NY, WI, BelGioioso Italico Underpass-raw milk alpine style SECOND AWARD Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, NM, Pepper Jack...... 99.25 Theresa, WI, Traditional Washed Rind Aged Brick Cheese CLASS 46: PEPPER FLAVORED THIRD AWARD Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Mineral MONTEREY JACK, MILD HEAT Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Point, WI, Tilston Point- 101621A NM, Pepper Jack...... 99.1 Nicasio Valley Cheese, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., BEST OF CLASS Nicasio, CA, San Geronimo Team Alto on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Pepper Pepper Jack...... 99 Jack Cheese...... 99.55 Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, CLASS 45: OPEN CLASS: SMEAR SECOND AWARD Fresno, OH, Pepper Jack Deli-Horn...... 98.35 RIPENED HARD CHEESES Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Taylor Gerhart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, NM, Pepper Jack...... 99.5 Cabot, VT, Vermont PepperJack...... 98.1 Ankrom Alejandra, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin BEST OF CLASS THIRD AWARD Falls, ID, Pepper Jack...... 97.95 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Shawn Sadler, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, ...... Fitchburg, WI, Roth Grand Cru Reserve 99.35 Monterey Jack with Jalapeno Peppers...... 99.45 Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Pepper Jack- SECOND AWARD Medium...... 97.75 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Yusupov Bakhritdin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Bampa Natasa, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin ...... Fitchburg, WI, Roth’s Private Reserve 99.3 Falls, ID, Pepper Jack...... 99.4 Falls, ID, Pepper Jack...... 97.65 THIRD AWARD LaGrander’s Cheese Team #1, LaGrander’s LaGrander’s Cheese Team #1, LaGrander’e Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Pepper Jack Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Pepper Jack Longhorn...... 99.3 Fitchburg, WI, Roth Grand Cru Original...... 99.2 Longhorn...... 97.6 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Shawn Sadler, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Monterey Jack Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Spring Brook Farm, Farms For City Kids with Jalapeno and Habanero Peppers Chipotle Jack...... 99.25 Foundation, Reading, VT, Tarentaise--Semi- Team Arena, Arena Cheese Inc, Arena, WI, Monterey Westcott TyAnna, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin hard Raw Milk Vermont Alpine Cheese...... 99.05 Jack with Jalapeno Peppers Falls, ID, Pepper Jack...... 99.2 Andy Hatch, Uplands Cheese, Dodgeville, WI, Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Fresno, OH, Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Pleasant Ridge Reserve...... 98.7 Jumpin Jack Deli Horn Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Pepper Jack-Mild.99.15 Chris Roelli, Roelli Cheese Company, Bampa Vjekoslav, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Shullsburg, WI, Little Mountain...... 98.7 Red Habanero MJ Pepper Jack...... 99.15 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, John Fagundes, Fagundes Old-World Cheese, LaGrander’s Cheese Team #2, LaGrander’s WI, Roth Grand Cru Surchoix...... 98.65 Hanford, CA, Jalepenos & Bell Peppers Hillside Dairy, Inc., Stanley, WI, Pepper Jack Longhorn...... 99.15

22 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Team BHC, Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc., Millersburg, Swinney MaryAnn, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Sriracha Monterey Jack OH, Ghost Pepper Cheese ID, Color Cheddar/Pepper Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Team Hennings on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Sriracha Monterey Jack Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Salsa Fresca Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Leaf CLASS 49: OPEN CLASS: PEPPER Cheddar Cheese Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jalapeno Jack FLAVORED CHEESE, MILD HEAT Shawn Sadler, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Colored Cheddar Kim Heiman, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, 3 with Chipotle Peppers Pepper Marble Sam Sweeney, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo BEST OF CLASS Joseph Farms Cheese, Joseph Gallo Farms, Maker of Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese with John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Jalapeno Peppers Joseph Farms Cheese, Atwater, CA, Pepper Jack Arena, WI, Mild Chile Pepper Queso Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Tom Torkelson, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Quesadilla...... 99.6 Habanero Jack Southwest Reserve SECOND AWARD Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Leaf Spring Brook Farm, Farms For City Kids Foundation, MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Reading, VT, Pepper Reading--Raclette Style Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jalapeno Jack Company, Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Chipotle PepBert...... 99.55 Pepper Gouda Batch CLASS 48: PEPPER FLAVORED THIRD AWARD Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farms, Fair oaks, IN, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Pepper Havarti Arena, WI, Mild Chile Pepper Muenster...... 99.5 MONTEREY JACK, HIGH HEAT Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Chipotle BEST OF CLASS Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Cheddar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, NM, Ghost Pepper Jack...... 99.8 Chipotle Cheddar Wheel...... 99.45 Southwest Reserve SECOND AWARD Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple WI, Marieke Jalapeno...... 99.4 Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Andy Rufener, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V CLASS 50: OPEN CLASS: PEPPER Habanero Jack...... 99.7 Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers...... 99.35 FLAVORED CHEESE, MEDIUM HEAT THIRD AWARD John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple BEST OF CLASS Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, WI, Mild Chile Pepper Brick...... 99.3 Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Habanero Jack...... 99.35 Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Cleveland, WI, Gouda w/Serrano Peppers Orland, CA, Queso Fresco with Jalapeno...... 99.25 Aged 9mon...... 99.25 Simic Adelita, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Bill Sikorski, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Peperoncino...... 99.25 SECOND AWARD ID, Ghost Pepper MJ...... 99.05 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Cranberry Mild Chile Pepper Muenster...... 99.2 Ghost Pepper Jack...... 98.95 Chipotle Cheddar...... 98.6 Hamlett Kelly, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Tri-State Dairy Team, Tri-State Dairy LLC, Hicksville, OH, Jalapeno Muenster 0103417 THIRD AWARD ID, Red Habanero MJ...... 98.95 Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Team Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Pimento Colby Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Brodhead, WI, havarti pepper...... 98.45 Deli Horn Habanero Jack...... 98.8 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Nick Siedschlag, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jack the Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Felimon Aquirre, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers WI, Gouda w/Serrano Peppers 8 mon...... 98.4 Reaper...... 98.75 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello, WI, Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Jalapeno Muenster Cooperative, Wilson, WI, Triple Pepper Sweet Fire Mango MJ...... 98.75 Gold’N Jack #1...... 98.25 Ken Heiman, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, Atkins Colby, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Pepper Team Hennings on behalf of Saputo, Saputo WI, Smoked Ghost Pepper...... 98.75 Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Hatch Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Team Black Creek on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Pepper Cheddar...... 98.2 Habanero Jack Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Chipotle Pepper Cheddar Cheese Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Cooperative, Wilson, WI, Triple Pepper Sweet Fire Mango MJ Zahirovic Samir, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Pepper Gold’N Jack #2...... 97.8 Tom Torkelson, Nasonville Dairy, Inc., Marshfield, WI, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Carolina Reaper Monterey Jack Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Southwest Reserve Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase with Red Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Chili Peppers...... 97.7 Plain, WI, Superhot Pepper Jack Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Roth Jalapeno Havarti Matt Henze, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Havarti Pepper...... 97.7 Mark Boelk, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Slap Yo Mama Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Jack Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese with Jalapeno Peppers WI, Marieke Jalapeno...... 97.55 Heric Nadezda, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Annie Milard, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Red Habanero MJ Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Southwest Reserve Color Cheddar/Chipotle Pepper

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 23 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Jalapeno Cheddar Chipotle Cheddar Creamery, Providence, RI, Fresh Burrata...... 99.25 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co., Mascarpone team 3 - Lake Country Dairy, Roth 3 Chile Pepper Gouda Inc., La Valle, WI, Wildfire Blue Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, CELLO RICH Matt Erdley, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, AND CREAMY MASCARPONE...... 99.15 Odyssey Sweet Heat Feta Mascarpone team 3 - Lake Country Dairy, Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, CLASS 51: OPEN CLASS: PEPPER Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, CELLO Medium Chile Pepper Muenster FLAVORED CHEESE, HIGH HEAT MASCARPONE...... 99.1 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Miceli Specialty Crew, Miceli Dairy Products, Muscoda Mayham Cleveland, OH, Mascarpone...... 99.05 BEST OF CLASS Bill Codr, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Chipotle Cheddar WI, BelGioioso Mascarpone...... 99.05 NM, Habanero Cheddar...... 98.35 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Chipotle Cheddar SECOND AWARD Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Mascarpone...... 99.05 Duane Petersen, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti NM, Habanero Chddar...... 98.15 with Jalapeno pepper Mascarpone team 3 - Lake Country Dairy, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, CELLO Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, THIRD AWARD Traditional Mascarpone...... 99.05 Roth Chipotle Havarti Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Habanero Cheddar...... 98.1 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Banjac Alex, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Color Roth Fontina Chedar/Habnero Pepper Jeff Allen, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, BelGioioso Crescenza-Stracchino CA, Petite Jalapeno Habanero Cheddar...... 98.05 Narragansett Creamery, Narragansett Creamery, Jeff Gundlach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti Jim Grant, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Providence, RI, Crescendo Stracchino di with Jalapeno Pepper Cabot, VT, Vermont Habenero Cheddar...... 97.95 Crescenza Cucic Haris, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, White Naber Dean, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers International, Cheddar/Habanero Pepper ID, White Cheddar/Ghost Pepper...... 97.85 Inc., Hanford, CA, Casero Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Navarrete Abel, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Roth Sriracha Gouda Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Habanero Pepper.. 97.8 VT, Crème Fraîche John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Paxton Joshua, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, BHC Feta Team, Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc., Medium Chile Pepper Muenster ID, Color Cheddar/Ghost Pepper...... 97.3 Millersburg, OH, Ezra’s Dairy Spreadable Feta Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Kirk Romesser, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Secaucus, Jalapeno Cheddar Ghost Pepper Cheddar...... 97.1 NJ, Fresh Burrata Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Tri-State Dairy Team, Tri-State Dairy LLC, Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Secaucus, Jalapeno Cheddar Hicksville, OH, Habanero Muenster NJ, Crescenza 0623316...... 97.05 Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Theresa, WI, Jalapeno Pepper Cheddar Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Roth Natural Melt Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Twin Grove Ed Giamarino, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti Reaper Cheddar Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, with Jalpeno Pepper VT, Quark Licon Dairy, Licon Dairy Inc., San Elizario, Tx, Queso John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Habanero Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, WI, Medium Chile Pepper Brick Roth Butterkase Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Ghost Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Pepper CJ Nicasio Valley cheese, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Jalapeno Cheddar Nicasio, CA, Foggy Morning batch Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Lil’ Moo, Sweet Grass Dairy, Thomasville, GA, Lil’ Moo Medium Chile Pepper Brick CLASS 52: OPEN CLASS: SOFT CHEESES Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Smooth John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, and creamy, curd defined with kid/lamb lipase Medium Chile Pepper Quesao Quesadilla BEST OF CLASS Belfiore, Belfiore Cheese Company, Berkeley, CA, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Russian Style Farmers Cheese Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Twin Grove Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Reaper Cheddar Websterville, VT, Crème Fraîche MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Company, Madagascar Vanilla...... 99.75 Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Ashley Dennis Dwinell, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont Chipotle Cheddar SECOND AWARD Kirk Baldwin, Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc., Nampa Mascarpone Team, Lactalis Milbank, SD, Cheddar with Red and Green American Group, Nampa, ID, Galbani Jalapenos - Cut cheese Mascarpone...... 99.7 Nathan Borst, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Havarti with THIRD AWARD Jalapeno Pepper Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese Team Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, USA, New Holland, PA, Alouette Creme Petaluma, CA, Jalapeno Brie Fraiche...... 99.4 Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Tequila/Habanero w/ medium aged cheddar Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, 11/28/16 Websterville, VT, Mascarpone...... 99.25

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SQF Certified  KOF-K Kosher Certified  Independent Laboratory Tested Landaff Creamery, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, CLASS 53: OPEN CLASS: SEMI-SOFT CHEESES VT, Kinsman Ridge Cleveland, WI, Kefla Greek Cheese Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, Tim Dudek, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, BEST OF CLASS CA, Petite Breakfast Cheese BelGioioso Romano John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Kuba Hemmerling & Team, Point Reyes Farmstead Trent Hendricks, Cabriejo LLC, Koshkonong, MO, Arena, WI, Farmer...... 99.6 Cheese Company, Point Reyes, CA, Point Reyes Ozark Tomme Toma SECOND AWARD Terry Chase, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Alpine VT Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Fontina Thorp, WI, Marieke Golden...... 99.5 Justin McCormack, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Chastinet THIRD AWARD Inc., LaValle, WI, Creama Kasa Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Team Alto on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Cheddar Daisy w/ butter, caramel notes Thorp, WI, Marieke Golden...... 99.4 Cheese, Richfield, WI, Colby Jack Cheese Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Team Almena on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Fairfield, NJ, Cello Traditional Romano Wheel Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Thorp, Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Fontinella Cheese Noble Brothers, Noble View Cheese Company, Inc, WI, Marieke Golden...... 99.25 MTC, Mt Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, WA, Adell, WI, Dover Fields Alpine Cheddar 021816 Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, New Moon- Washinton Jack Noble Brothers, Noble View Cheese Company, Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase 28 mon...... 99.2 Cedar Grove Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Plain, WI, Inc, Adell, WI, Dover Fields Extra Aged Reserve John Stender, BelGioioso Cheese Inc, Green Butterkaese 061815 Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fontina...... 99.15 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf M Comotto/Team R&D, DairiConcepts, L.P., Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, Cultured Way Springfield, MO, Black Waxed Romano Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase 16 mon...... 99.1 Yogurt Cheese Team BHC, Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc., Millersburg, Deaven Halbach, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co., OH, Jersey Fresh Fontina Wheel...... 99.1 Inc., La Valle, WI, Fontina Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Creamery, Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, LLC, Albany, WI, Tallgrass Reserve Monticello, WI, Butterkase...... 99.05 Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, CLASS 54: OPEN CLASS: HARD CHEESES Complex, tangy Sharp Cheddar with nutty notes WI, Roth Prairie Sunset...... 99.05 - 4/10/14 Hansi Lehner, Valley View, South Wayne, WI, BEST OF CLASS Team Black Creek on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Butterkase Sequatchie Cove Creamery, Sequatchie Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Cheddar Gruyere Lynn Dolan, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Harbor, Cove Creamery, Sequatchie, TN, Cheese MI, Fontina Cumberland batch 323...... 99.25 Eau Galle Cheeese Factory Team, Eau Galle Cheese Factory, Durand, WI, Romano Nathan Borst, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Fontina SECOND AWARD Wheel Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Team Black Creek on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Cheddar Tom Schmidt, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Fontina Cleveland, WI, Alpine Style 22 mon...... 99.15 Wheel Parmesan THIRD AWARD Team - AMPI, AMPI- Hoven, Hoven, SD, Romano Eric Steltenpohl, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Aged Butterkase 12 months Wheel Cleveland, WI, Alpine Style 12mon...... 99 Caves of Faribault Team, Caves of Faribault, Peter Messmer, Lively Run Dairy, Interlaken, NY, Faribault, MN, St. Mary’s Grass Fed Gouda Lively Run Willow Hedge Rumiano Cheese, Rumiano Cheese, Willows, Landaff Creamery, Cellars at Jasper Hill, Greensboro, CA, Dry Monterey Jack...... 98.95 VT, Landaff Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf CLASS 55: OPEN CLASS: Cleveland, WI, Alpine Style 24 mon...... 98.95 Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Red Wax Fontina FLAVORED SOFT CHEESES Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Petaluma, CA, Cleveland, WI, Alpine Style 14 mon...... 98.9 Carmody - A Bellwether Farms Original BEST OF CLASS Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Bryan Springborn, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Laurie Neal, Laurel’s Crown LLC, Wenatchee, WA, WI, Sartori Reserve BellaVitano Gold; Sweet Summer, washed curd cheese Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Burrata with 36221342255...... 98.75 Black Truffles...... 99.55 Dave Newman, Arla Foods, Kaukauna, WI, Fontina Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Wheel Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Mabel...... 98.75 SECOND AWARD Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Gary Grossen, Babcock Dairy Plant, Madison, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Fontina Lactalis American Group - Belmont, WI, Romano...... 98.7 Belmont, WI, 3 kg. Brie with Herbs...... 99.25 Aron Seedfeldt, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Bergenost Caves of Faribault Team, Caves of Faribault, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Faribault, MN, Jeffs’ Select Cave Aged Gouda98.7. THIRD AWARD Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase 24mon Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Luis Vazquez, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Petaluma, CA, Sartori Alpine Style; 37410442404 Green Bay, WI, Zesty Marinated Hand Braided Fresh Mozzarella...... 99.2 Fromage Blanc Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple Leaf Lindsey Mendes, Central Coast Creamery, Paso Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Fontina Robles, CA, Bishops Peak Aaron Herbel/Benji Wiebe, Jason Wiebe Dairy, Jean Manuel Renard, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Glenn Goss, Schnabeltier, Rochester, IN, Rochester Durham, KS, Cottonwood River Cheddar Reserve, Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg Brie with Herbs...... 99.15 Semi-soft 36 % moisture, Raw Milk New Age Cheddar

26 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Fresh Secaucus, NJ, Armenian String Cheese...... 97.8 CLASS 57: OPEN CLASS: Mozzarella & Grilled Vegetables...... 99.05 Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, FLAVORED HARD CHEESES Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Ginseng Garlic MJ...... 97.8 Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Billiard Michael, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Marinated Fresh Mozzarella...... 98.85 BEST OF CLASS Falls, ID, MJ/Green Olives & Pimento...... 97.55 Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Alberto Almora, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Antigo, WI, Sartori Reserve Black Pepper Benton Harbor, MI, Slicing Brie with Herbs Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jimmy the Greek BellaVitano; 40371542761...... 99.45 8oz...... 98.8 Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, SECOND AWARD Scott Ness, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Theresa, WI, Traditional Caraway Colby Harbor, MI, 8oz Brie Layered With Herbs...... 98.75 Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Antigo, WI, Sartori Reserve Citrus Ginger Luis Vazquez, BelGioioso Cheese Inc, Green Bruschetta MJ Bay, WI, BelGioioso Pesto Marinated Hand BellaVitano; 38122042495...... 99.4 Felimon Aquirre, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Braided Fresh Mozzarella...... 98.65 Asiago Fresca with Rosemary THIRD AWARD Losurdo Foods Fresh Mozzarella Crew, Losurdo Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Foods Inc., Heuvelton, NY, 3lb Fresh Team Arena, Arena Cheese, Arena, WI, Sriracha Jack WI, Sartori Reserve Herbs de Provence Mozzarella Log with Seasonings...... 98.6 Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, BellaVitano; 39404542648...... 99.35 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese CA, Pesto Brie Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Marinated Fresh Craigg James, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Mozzarella Cracked Pepper MJ WI, Sartori Reserve Chipotle BellaVitano; Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Group, Nampa, Cowgirl Creamery, Cowgirl Creamery, Petaluma, CA, 37029744235...... 99.3 ID, Galbani Fresh Mozzarella Marinated St Pat Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Team Marin French Cheese, Marin French Cheese, Blackfoot, ID, Black Pepper Cheddar...... 99.25 Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Sun Dried Tomatoes Petaluma, CA, Petite Truffle Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, & Fresh Basil Team Marin French, Marin French Cheese, Petaluma, WI, Alphas Morning Sun with Truffle...... 99.2 Jean Manuel Renard, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., CA, Triple Creme Brie with Black Truffles Kranjc Igor, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Benton Harbor, MI, 3 Kg With Pepper Cotroneo Matt, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, White Cheddar/Black Olives & Garlic...... 99 Losurdo Foods Fresh Mozzarella Crew, Losurdo foods MJ/Chives & Garlic Zachary Henning, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Inc, Heuvelton, NY, Fresh Mozzarella w/Fresh Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Cheddar with Fenugreek - 9/20/16...... 98.95 Basil, Sundried Tomato Wilson, WI, Monterey Jack and Dill Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, MouCo Cheese Company, MouCo Cheese Company, Team Toscana, Toscana Cheese Company, Secaucus, WI, Sartori Reserve Espresso BellaVitano; Inc., Fort Collins, CO, MouCo Truffello NJ, Fresh Marinated Braid Mozzarella 38338942521...... 98.95 Nicasio Valley Cheese, Nicasio Valley Cheese Co., Matthew Brichford, Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Nicasio, CA, Foggy Morning with Garlic and Basil Cheese, Connersville, IN, Briana with Truffles WI, Sartori Reserve Basil & Olive Oil Asiago; MTC, Mt. Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, WA, #288 39062942621...... 98.95 Tufflestack: Truffle Soft Ripened Team Meiser 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Searle Justin, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Ginseng Garlic MJ White Cheddar/Green Olives & Pimento Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, CLASS 56: OPEN CLASS: FLAVORED Wilson, WI, Monterey Jack with Garlic & Chives Black Pepper Cheddar SEMI-SOFT (SEMI-HARD) CHEESES Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Wilson, WI, Monterey Jack with Scallions Sartori Reserve Rosemary & Olive Oil Asiago; BEST OF CLASS Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, 38802942579 Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Bruschetta MJ Turner Dave, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Yellow Door Creamery Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Garlic White Cheddar/Chives Harissa Rubbed Fontal Cheese...... 99.05 Herb MJ Eddie Hall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont Smoky Bacon Cheddar SECOND AWARD Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Marieke Gouda Team, Marieke Gouda, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jack the Reaper Dennis Dwinell, Cabot Creamery, Cabot, VT, Vermont Thorp, WI, Marieke Gouda HoneyClover...... 98.8 Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese, Darlington, WI, Garlic & Herb Cheddar Morel Mushroom and Onion Monterey Jack Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf THIRD AWARD Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Olive Oil Rubbed John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Burnett Dairy- Wilson, Burnett Dairy Cooperative, Wilson, WI, Monterey Jack with Kimchi Seasoning Gouda Arena, WI, Caraway Brick...... 98.75 Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Garlic Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Herb MJ Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Horseradish & Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, Chive White Cheddar Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Caraway Brick...... 98.5 Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Bold Taco Jack Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Lake Country Dairy Team, Schuman Cheese, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Horseradish Fairfield, NJ, Yellow Door Creamery Tuscan Cheddar Rubbed Fontal Cheese...... 98.45 Joshua Krause, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, La Bottega di BelGioioso Artigiano Aged WI, Caraway Muenster...... 97.95 Balsamic & Cipolline Onion Amber Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Arena, WI, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Caraway Muenster...... 97.95 Brattleboro, VT, Truffle Cheddar

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 27 Dane Huebner, Hunt Cheese Cellar, Mequon, WI, 3 Team Almena on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Onion Raw Milk Cheddar Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Rosemary Asiago CLASS 58: OPEN CLASS: FLAVORED Team Almena on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Cheese CHEESES WITH SWEET CONDIMENTS Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Black Pepper Cheddar Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR, Romano Cheese Organic La Di Da Lavender Cheddar BEST OF CLASS Heber Valley Artisan Cheese, Heber Valley Artisan Dane Huebner, Hunt Cheese Cellar, Mequon, WI, Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Cheese, Midway, UT, An aged cheddar rubbed w/ Green Peppercorn and Brandy Raw Milk Cheddar Vache...... 99.05 Mustard Herb blend Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Mango Reaper SECOND AWARD Alphas Morning Sun with Applewood Smoked Cheddar Team Hennings on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Seasalt Team Almena on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Blueberry Kolb Robert, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cheese, Richfield, WI, Stella Mediterranean Cobbler Cheddar...... 98.85 Bacon Cheddar Parmesan Cheese THIRD AWARD Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, WI, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Alphas Morning Sun with Kimchi 3546 Black Pepper Cheddar Antigo, WI, Sartori Reserve Rum Runner BellaVitano; 38320942517...... 98.55

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28 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Bampa Dalibor, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Pecans MJ...... 98.2 CLASS 59: OPEN CLASS: SMOKED CLASS 60: OPEN CLASS: Grant Kohler, Heber Valley Artisan Cheese LLC, SOFT AND SEMI-SOFT CHEESES SMOKED HARD CHEESES Midway, UT, Lavender Honey Cheddar...... 98 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Maple Zimmerman Cheese Team 2, Zimmerman Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, Harvest Cheddar...... 98 Cheese, South Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick...... 99 Fresno, OH, Smoked Natural Swiss...... 97.85 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Cranberry Cinnamon Monterey Jack...... 97.95 SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, Kiel, WI, Midum Cheddar with Madagascar Lake Norden, SD, Smoked LMWM Mozzarella98.9. WI, Smoked Colored Cheddar...... 97.1 Bourbon Vanilla Bean - 8/29/16...... 97.85 THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Zimmerman Cheese Team 1, Zimmerman Mike Nelson, Chalet Cheese Co-op, Cranberry Mango Monterey Jack...... 97.85 Cheese, South Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick...... 98.55 Monroe, WI, 2/6# Natural Smoked Baby Barringer Phil, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Swiss slabs...... 97.05 ID, Fruity MJ...... 97.4 Zimmerman Cheese AM Team, Zimmerman Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Cheese, South Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick...... 98.35 Harris Dennis, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Inc., Algoma, WI, Door County Cherry Cheddar Burnett Dairy Team, Burnett Dairy, Grantsburg, ID, Smoked Cheddar...... 96.9 Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, WI, Smoked String Cheese...... 98.3 Shawn Sadler, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Colored Cranberry Mango Monterey Jack Zimmerman Cheese PM Team, Zimmerman Cheddar with Smoke flavoring...... 96.8 Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Cheese, South Wayne, WI, Smoked Brick...... 98.25 Heat Joan, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, WI, Sartori Reserve Tequila BellaVitano; Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, Smoked Cheddar...... 96.75 36379642275 WI, Roth Moody Blue...... 98.15 Team Meiser 1, Meister Cheese, Muscoda, WI, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy Inc., Smoked Colored Cheddar...... 96.75 Sartori Reserve Kentucky Bourbon BellaVitano; Brodhead, WI, Smoked Muenster...... 98.15 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese 35965242228 Emmi Roth USA, Emmi Roth USA, Fitchburg, Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Apple Smoked Garlic Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Cheddar...... 96.5 WI, Roth Smoked Fontina...... 98 Sartori Reserve Chai BellaVitano; 40185042739 Decatur Cheesemakers, Decatur Dairy Inc., GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Brodhead, WI, Smoked Meditternean Brattleboro, VT, Maple Smoked Cheddar...... 96.45 Sartori Limited Edition Peppermint BellaVitano; Havarti...... 97.95 Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Full 39147842621 Cummins Keith, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Cream Baby Swiss Naturally Smoked with Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Hickory...... 96.3 Falls, ID, Smoked MJ...... 97.75 WI, Sartori Reserve Raspberry BellaVitano; Jean-Louis Berthier, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin 39871142706 Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Smoked Meditteranean Havarti Falls, ID, Smoked Cheddar...... 96.3 Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Smooth Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. and creamy with kid/lamb lipase w/ local sweet Coates Derrick, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Inc., LaValle, WI, Smoked Cheddar red wine Smoked MJ Contoocook Creamery, Contoocook Creamery, Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Feta Team-John Peck Manager, Maplebrook Farm, Contoocook, NH, 111716-38 WI, Sartori Reserve Merlot BellaVitano; Bennington, VT, Cherrywood Smoked Feta 40359542760 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Comstock Team, Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, Comstock, WI, Smoke Bacon Cheddar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, NM, Inc., LaValle, WI, Apple Smoked Cheddar Cranberry Cinnamon Monterey Jack Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Team Black Creek on Behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Double Smoked Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Smoked Fresh Cheddar WI, Sartori Reserve Brandy Old Fashioned Mozzarella BellaVitano; 36379842275 Team Salemville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Smokehaus Blue WI, Sartori Reserve Balsamic BellaVitano; Cheese CLASS 61: REDUCED FAT SOFT 38857642595 MTC, Mt Townsend Creamery, Port Townsend, WA, & SEMI-SOFT CHEESES Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, Campfire - Smoked Washington Jack Sartori Limited Edition Cognac BellaVitano Chocker Thomas, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, BEST OF CLASS Artisan Cheese Exchange, Henning Cheese, Kiel, WI, Smoked MJ John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Aged Cheddar pierced and cured in Chartreuse Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese, Arena, WI, Reduced Fat Muenster...... 99.65 Villa Marcos, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Willows, CA, Organic Smoked Mozzarella SECOND AWARD Walnuts MJ Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. John(Randy) Pitman, Mill Creek Cheese, Josh Krause, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, Inc., LaValle, WI, Smoked Creama Kasa Arena, WI, Reduced Fat Brick...... 99.45 La Bottega di BelGioioso Artigiano Vino Rosso Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Team Hennings on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Inc., LaValle, WI, Smoked Pepper Jack THIRD AWARD Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Mango Fire Blue Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR, Reduced Fat Feta...... 99.4 Cheddar Cheese Smokey Blue Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co., Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Apple Harvest Inc., La Valle, WI, Smoked Fontina Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lactalis Cheddar American Group - Belmont, Belmont, WI, Reduced-Fat Feta 6oz...... 99.2

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 29 Nathan Bass, Valley Queen Cheese Factory, Inc., Milbank, SD, Reduced Fat Cheddar - CLASS 64: REDUCED SODIUM CHEESES CLASS 65: COLD PACK CHEESE, CHEESE FOOD Cut Cheese...... 98.45 JCC-Team 2, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Reduced Fat BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS White Cheddar...... 98.35 Connor Bowman, Rothenbuhler Widmer’s Cheese Cellars, Widmer’s Cheese Teresa Sandberg, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced Cheesemakers, Middlefield, oh, Reduced Cellars, Theresa, WI, Traditional Washed Fat Cheddar (cut 640)...... 98.05 Sodium Swiss cheese...... 99.75 Rind Aged Brick Spread...... 99.45 Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD Blackfoot, ID, RF Colored Cheddar...... 98 Ryan Shaheen, Rothenbuhler TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Cheesemakers, Middlefield, oh, Reduced NEWTON, WI, Chunky Bleu Cold Pack RF Colored Cheddar Sodum Swiss cheese...... 99.5 Cheese Food...... 99.4 Josh Tangen, Agropur, Hull, IA, Reduced Fat Cheddar THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD (Cut 640) Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Nutritionals, Blackfoot, ID, Reduced Sodium Provolone...... 99.4 INC, Newton, WI, SMOKEY BACON COLD RF Colored Cheddar PACK CHEESE FOOD...... 99.3

Roger Krohn, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, CLASS 63: LOWFAT CHEESES Reduced Sodium Provolone...... 99.3 TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, Pearl Valley Cheese, Pearl Valley Cheese, NEWTON, WI, SWISS AND ALMOND COLD Fresno, OH, Lacey Swiss (Reduced Sodium PACK CHEESE FOOD...... 99 BEST OF CLASS Swiss Style with Lacey Style Eyes)...... 99.25 TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PREPACK, Steve Webster, Klondike Cheese Co., Team Lake Nordne, Agropur Lake Norden, NEWTON, WI, HORSERADISH FLAVOR COLD Monroe, WI, Odyssey Fat Free Feta in Brine99.6. Lake Nordne, sd, Reduced Sodium PACK CHEESE FOOD...... 98.75 SECOND AWARD Provolone...... 99.05 Michael Kraemer, Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese, Ricotta Team, Lactalis American Group, Zimmerman Cheese PM Team, Zimmerman Watertown, WI, Cheddar with Beer...... 98.6 Buffalo, NY, Low Fat Whey Based Ricotta...... 99.2 Cheese, South Wayne, WI, RS Muenster Loaf99. Megan Kraemer, Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese, Watertown, WI, Cheddar with Horseradish... 98.5 THIRD AWARD Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Lacey Swiss Cheese...... 98.95 TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, Lactalis American Group - Belmont, Bruce Workman, Fair Oaks Farms, Fair Oaks, NEWTON, WI, Aged Asiago Cold Pack Cheese Food...... 98.45 Belmont, WI, Fat-Free Feta 6 oz...... 99.05 IN, Lacy Swiss...... 98.9 Zimmerman Cheese AM Team, Zimmerman TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PREPACK, Cheese, South Wayne, WI, RS Muenster NEWTON, WI, GARLIC AND HERB COLD Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 1, Maple PACK CHEESE FOOD...... 98.45 Loaf...... 98.85 Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, Light Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Cheddar...... 99 Vanic Matt, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Mayville, WI, Port Wine...... 98.3 Reduced Sodium Cheddar...... 98.85 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team 2, Maple Team Pine River on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Leaf Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Light Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Lake Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Sharp Cheddar...... 98.8 Norden, SD, Reduced Sodium LMPS Mozzarella Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese Food...... 98.3 Micah Klug, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Fat Free JCC-Team 3, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Low Salt Low Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Mayville, WI, Feta...... 98.7 Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Sharp Cheddar Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Team Edelweiss, Edelweiss Creamery, Monticello, WI, Richard Kraemer, Kraemer Wisconsin Cheese, Lake Norden, SD, Lite Mozzarella...... 98.6 Lacey Swiss Watertown, WI, Cheddar Brandy Old Fashioned Fred Hart, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, Team Lake Norden, Agropur Lake Norden, Lake VT, 75% VT 75% Reduced Fat Cheddar...... 98.45 Norden, SD, Reduced Sodium LMWM Mozzarella Ricotta Team, Lactalis American Group, Pittman Joey, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, CLASS 66: COLD PACK CHEESE SPREADS Buffalo, NY, Fat Free Whey Based Ricotta..... 98.05 Reduced Sodium Cheddar Keith Turzinski, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Zimmerman Cheese Team 1, Zimmerman Cheese, WI, Rondelé Garlic & Herbs Light Gourmet South Wayne, WI, RS Muenster Loaf BEST OF CLASS Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Spreadable Cheese...... 97.75 Oberg Jeff, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, ID, Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Swiss Almond Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Fat Free Reduced Sodium Cheddar Cold Pack Spread...... 99.1 Feta Zimmerman Cheese Team 2, Zimmerman Cheese, Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, South Wayne, WI, RS Muenster Loaf SECOND AWARD Lon Riedel, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Odyssey Lowfat feta Pat Doell, Agropur, Luxemburg, WI, Reduced Sodium WI, Black Diamond Extra Sharp Cheddar Team Nasonville on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Provolone Spreadable Cheese...... 98.85 Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Nikos Fat Free Mozzarella Team, Lactalis American Group, Buffalo, Feta Cheese NY, Reduced Sodium Provolone THIRD AWARD Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, Gouda Cold Pack Cheese Spread...... 98.65

Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Chunky Blue Cold Pack Cheese Spread...... 98.6

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32 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Sugar Brook, Family Fresh Pack, Monticello, Michael B. Williams, Williams Cheese Company, WI, Vintage Cheddar Spread - Aged Linwood, MI, Original Horseradish Cold Pack CLASS 68: FLAVORED SPREADABLE Wisconsin White Cheddar Spread...... 98.45 Cheese Spread NATURAL CHEESES Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, Cleveland, WI, English Cheddar Cold Pack Cleveland, WI, Asiago Fresca Cold Pack Cheese Cheese Spread...... 98.35 Spread BEST OF CLASS Lyle Gast Jr., Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese, Darlington, WI, WI, Président Pub Cheddar Horseradish Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Aged Asiago Cold Raw Milk Cheddar Spread Spreadable Cheese...... 99.5 Pack Cheese Spread...... 98.35 Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese, Darlington, WI, Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Raw Milk Cheddar and Horseradish Cheese SECOND AWARD Chute, WI, Merkts Port Wine Cold Pack Spread Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green Cheese Spread...... 98.35 Bay, WI, Strawberry Cream Cheese Spread..99.45 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese THIRD AWARD Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Late Harvest Wine CLASS 67: SPREADABLE NATURAL CHEESES Shawn Schult, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Cold Pack Spread...... 98.3 WI, Rondelé Orgainic Garden Vegetable Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, BEST OF CLASS Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 99.35 Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase Cold Pack Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green Cheese Spread...... 98.2 Bay, WI, Whipped Plain Cream Cheese Dave Zielazowski, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Littlee Chute, Spread...... 99.25 WI, Rondelé Garlic & Herbs Gourmet WI, Merkts Sharp Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese Spreadable Cheese...... 99.15 Spread SECOND AWARD Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co., Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green ...... New Holland, PA, Alouette Garlic & Herbs Inc., La Valle, WI, Spicy Beer Cold Pack Cheese Bay, WI, Plain Cream Cheese Spread 99.2 Spreadable Cheese...... 99.15 Spread THIRD AWARD Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese, La California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, New Holland, PA, Alouette Chipotle Cheddar Valle, WI, Sharp Cheddar Spread Inc., Visalia, CA, Real Cream Cheese...... 98.75 Spreadable Cheese...... 99.15 Brian Storm, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Black Courtney Schreiner, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Diamond Chardonnay & Cheddar Spreadable Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Merrill, WI, Président Pub Cheddar & Bacon Cheese New Holland, PA, Smithfield Whipped Spreadable Cheese...... 99.05 Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Chute, Cream Cheese...... 98.55 Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green Bay, WI, Kaukauna Port Wine Spreadable Cheese Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green Bay, WI, Jalapeno Cream Cheese Spread...... 99 Sugar Brook, Family Fresh Pack, Monticello, WI, WI, Plain Cream Cheese Bar...... 98.35 Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green Bay, Barley Cheddar Spread - Wisconsin White Cheddar Tom Stubbs, Lactalis, U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, WI, Garden Vegetable Cream Cheese Spread99. and Wheat Beer Spread Président Pub Sharp Cheddar Spreadable Michael butterbrodt, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Sugar Brook, Family Fresh Pack, Monticello, WI, Cheese...... 98.35 Merrill, WI, Président Pub Cheddar & Hickory Bacon Swiss Spread - Swiss Cheese with Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Sriracha Spreadable Cheese...... 98.95 Hickory Smoked Bacon Spread New Holland, PA, Smithfield Neufchatel Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Chute, Cream Cheese...... 98 New Holland, PA, Alouette Sharp Cheddar WI, Kaukauna Sharp Spreadable Cheese Luana Cream Cheese Team, Swiss Valley Spreadable Cheese...... 98.95 Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Chute, Farms, Monona, IA, Neufchatel...... 97.45 Tony Gessler, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, WI, Merkts, Capital Supper Club Cold Pack Beer Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Rondelé Organic Garlic & Herbs Gourmet Cheese Orland, CA, House creation...... 97.3 Spreadable Cheese...... 98.95 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese, La Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Valle, WI, Horseradish Spread New Holland, PA, Smithfield Regular Cream New Holland, PA, Alouette Grilled Tomato Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Linwood, Cheese...... 97.05 Spreadable Cheese...... 98.95 MI, Original Cheddar Cold Pack Cheese Spread Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Brian Storm, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Tom Stubbs, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Black VT, Spreadable Goat Cheese Rondelé Sea Salt and Cracked Pepper Gourmet Diamond Merlot & Cheddar Spreadable Cheese Luana Cream Cheese Team, Swiss Valley Farms, Spreadable Cheese Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Littlee Chute, Monona, IA, Acid Set Cream Cheese Spread Clock Shadow Creamery Team, Cedar Grove Cheese WI, Merkts Cold Pack Beer Cheese Spread Luana Cream Cheese Team, Swiss Valley Farms, Inc, Plain, WI, Quark with S.A. Braai Chutney Michael B. Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Monona, IA, Cream Cheese Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese, Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese, Linwood, MI, Original Pinconning Cold Pack Clock Shadow Creamery team, Cedar Grove Cheese Luxemburg, WI, Spreadable Cream Cheese with Cheese Spread Inc, Plain, WI, Quark Herbs and Spices Sugar Brook, Family Fresh Pack, Monticello, WI, Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Orland, Schreiber Foods, Schreiber Foods, Green Bay, WI, Cobalt Cheddar Spread - Wisconsin Cheddar and CA, Fromage Blanc Chive and Onion Cream Cheese Spread Blue Cheese Spread Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Orland, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese CA, Tomato Pesto Fromage Blanc Torta Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Garlic Cheddar Cold Pack Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese, Ron’s Wisconsin Cheese, Cheese Spread Luxemburg, WI, Spreadable Cheese with Cheddar Saxon Creamery Team, Saxon Cheese LLC, and Garlic Cleveland, WI, Aged Butterkase with Red Chillies Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Cold Pack Cheese Spread VT, Spreadable Goat Cheese Olive & Herb

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 33 Valerie Miller, Orland Farmstead Creamery, Orland, Dan McVehil, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, OH, Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, CA, Garlic Dill Ricottage Pasteurized Process White American Cheese97.85. Linwood, MI, Smoked Cheddar Cheese...... 98.15 Team Curtis, Bunker Hill Cheese Co. Inc., Millersburg, Team Whitehall, Whitehall Specialties, Mike Delpriore, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, OH, Salted Carmel Feta Spread Whitehall, WI, Asiago...... 97.75 Tapenade Cheddar...... 97.8 Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Curd Nerds, Ornua Ingredients North America, Dairyfood USA Team, Dairyfood USA, Inc., Blue VT, Spreadable Goat Cheese Roasted Red Pepper Hilbert, WI, Pasteurized Process Sharp American Mounds, WI, Naturally Smoked Gouda...... 97.05 Cheese Land O’ Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Spencer, WI, 4 Team Whitehall, Whitehall Specialties, Whitehall, Cheese Italian Blend...... 96.75 CLASS 69: PASTEURIZED PROCESS CHEESES WI, Gouda Team Whitehall, Whitehall Specialties, Whitehall, WI, Cheddar Chipotle...... 96.75 BEST OF CLASS Michael B. Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Loaf Day Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, CLASS 70: FLAVORED PASTEURIZED Linwood, MI, Smoked Swiss Cheese Bongards, MN, American Deli Loaf...... 99.45 PROCESS CHEESES Loaf PM Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, Bongards, MN, American Deli Loaf with Peppers SECOND AWARD Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk BEST OF CLASS Mike Fox, Yancey Fancy, Corfu, NY, Wasabi Cheddar Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, Colored Old Croc Cheese, Trugman-Nash & Gilman Old Croc Cheese, Trugman-Nash & Gilman Cheese American Past Process Cheese Loaf...... 99.25 Cheese Corp, Millburn, NJ, Horseradish Corp, Millburn, NJ, Chipotle & Onion Pasteurized Pasteurized Process Cheddar made with Old Process Cheddar made with Old Croc THIRD AWARD Croc...... 98.9 Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk Producers, Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, White SECOND AWARD Inc, Portage, WI, PP Monterey Jack & American American Past Process Easy Melt Cheese Old Croc Cheese, Trugman-Nash & Gilman Cheese with Red Bell and Jalapeno Peppers Loaf...... 99.05 Cheese Corp, Millburn, NJ, Bacon & Richard Olesky, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, OH, Jalapeño Pasteurized Process Cheddar Pasteurized Process Jalapeno Bacon Cheddar made with Old Croc...... 98.4 Cheese Product Matthew Eggebrecht, Welcome Dairy, LLC, Josh Stout, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Steakhouse Colby, WI, rBGH Free White American...... 98.95 THIRD AWARD Onion Cheddar Aaron Allen, Welcome Dairy, LLC, Colby, WI, Old Croc Cheese, Trugman- Nash & Gilman Cheese Corp, Millburn, NJ, Roasted Garlic Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk Producers, Inc, RF/RS American...... 98.85 & Herb Pasteurized Process Cheddar made Portage, WI, Hot Pepper Past Process Cheese Land O’ Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Spencer, WI, with Old Croc...... 98.3 Food Loaf Yellow Sharp American Cheese-Loaf...... 98.65 Josh Stout, Yanceys Fancy, Corfu, NY, Smoked Gouda Elizabeth Tesch, Welcome Dairy, LLC, Colby, with Bacon WI, Pasteurized Process American, Swiss & Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, ..... Tim Parker, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, OH, Smoked Provolone...... 98.35 Linwood, MI, Smoked Hot Pepper Cheese 98.25 Pasteurized Process Hot Pepper Cheese Product Curd Nerds, Ornua Ingredients North America, Justin Kersey, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, Tyler Binkley, Biery Cheese Co., Louisville, OH, Hilbert, WI, Pasteurized Process Sharp OH, Hickory Smoked Pasteurized Process ...... Pasteurized Process Cherry Cheese Product Colored American Cheese...... 98.15 Cheddar Cheese Food 98.15

34 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Whitehall, Whitehall Specialties, Whitehall, WI, Process Loaf Team, Associated Milk Phoebe Parros, Central Coast Creamery, Paso Smoked Gouda Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, Past Proc Robles, CA, Fresh Chevre American Cheese Spread Loaf...... 96.65 John Windemuller, Country Winds Creamery, Lon Riedel, Lactalis U.S.A., Inc., Merrill, WI, Zeeland, MI, Fresh Chevre soft spreadable goat CLASS 71: PASTEURIZED Président Wee Brie Spreadable Cheese...... 96.35 cheese Process Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Mayville, WI, Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill PROCESS CHEESE SLICES Cheedar Dairy, Rockville, MN, Chevre Curd Nerds, Ornua Ingredients North America, Katie Fuhrmann and Team LaClare, LaClare Farms BEST OF CLASS Hilbert, WI, Pasteurized Process Sharp American Specialties, LLC, Malone, WI, Fresh Goat Milk Process Slice Team, Associated Milk Cheese Spread Cheese, sweet, buttery and mild. Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, American Past Dairyfood USA Team, Dairyfood USA, Inc., Blue Proc Cheese Slices...... 97.65 Mounds, WI, Original Queso Style SECOND AWARD CLASS 74: FLAVORED SOFT Land O’ Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Spencer, WI,

...... GOAT’S MILK CHEESES White American/Swiss-Slice 97.5 CLASS 73: SOFT GOAT’S MILK CHEESES THIRD AWARD BEST OF CLASS Slice B Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, BEST OF CLASS Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Bongards, MN, Processed American with Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Belmont, WI, 4 oz Truffle...... 99.2 Peppers Slice on Slice...... 96.35 Chevre Log...... 99.3 SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Land O’ Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Spencer, WI, Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Belmont, WI, 8 oz Pepper...... 99.15 Yellow American-Slice...... 96.25 Ms. Natural...... 99.25 Slice A Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, THIRD AWARD Bongards, MN, Process American Slice on THIRD AWARD Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Slice...... 96.15 Manon SERVOUSE, Laura Chenel’s, Sgt. Pepper...... 98.9 Sonoma, CA, Laura Chenel’s Chef Chevre 7oz99.2. Process Slice Team, Associated Milk Producers, Inc, Portage, WI, American Swiss Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Past Proc Cheese Slices...... 96 Peter Messmer, Lively Run Dairy, Interlaken, Belmont, WI, 4 oz Four Pepper...... 98.85 NY, Lively Run Chèvre...... 99.05 Slice C Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Bongards, MN, Processed American Swiss Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Laura Chenel’s Spicy Cabecou 3.5lb...... 98.85 ...... Slice on Slice 95.25 Websterville, VT, Fresh Goat Cheese...... 99 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, WI, 4 oz Jalapeno...... 98.8 Belmont, WI, 4 oz Plain...... 98.9 Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, dill CLASS 72: PASTEURIZED Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll pollen fresh goat cheese...... 98.75 Pastures-Soft,slightly tangy goat cheese...... 98.7 PROCESS CHEESE SPREAD Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Manon SERVOUSE, Laura Chenel, Sonoma, CA, Fennel pollen and lavender fresh goat BEST OF CLASS Laura Chenel’s Original log 8oz...... 98.65 cheese...... 98.7 Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, USA, New Holland, PA, Alouette Original Belmont, WI, 8 oz Plain...... 98.65 Fresh goat cheese with Herbs de Provence98.65. Creme de Brie...... 99.45 Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Woolwich on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Websterville, VT, Crumble Goat Cheese SECOND AWARD Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Bruschetta Classic...... 98.5 Dairyfood USA Team, Dairyfood USA, Inc., Chevre...... 98.65 Blue Mounds, WI, Naturally Smoked Gouda Team Woolwich on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures Spread...... 99.05 Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Original with fennel Pollen-Flavored fresh goats cheese Chevre...... 98.5 THIRD AWARD Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures- with fennel Pollen-Flavored fresh goats cheese Team Whitehall, Whitehall Specialties, Soft,slightly tangy goat cheese Whitehall, WI, White Cheddar Ranch...... 98.9 Peter Messmer, Lively Run Dairy, Interlaken, NY, Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Lively Run Za’atar Chèvre VT, Fresh Crottin Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura Land O’ Lakes, Land O’ Lakes, Spencer, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Spreadable Chenel’s Pimento & Garlic log 8oz WI, Queso Bravo-White Cheese Dip with Idyll Pastures- 5oz fresh chevre tub Jalapeno & Red Peppers...... 98.35 Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Spreadable Chenel’s Marinated Cabecou 3.5lb Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Idyll pastures- 5oz fresh chevre tub New Holland, PA, Alouette Garlic & Herbs Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, lightly Creme de Brie...... 98 with Garlic and Herbs-flavored fresh goat cheese salted fresh goat milk cheese Team Whitehall, Whitehall Specialties, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Whitehall, WI, Cheddar Horseradish...... 97.85 with Garlic and Herbs-flavored fresh goat cheese WI, 10.5 oz Plain Dairyfood USA Team, Dairyfood USA, Inc., Blue Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Cedar Grove Cheese Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Mounds, WI, Jalapeno Queso Style...... 97.3 WI, 10.5 oz Garlic & Herb Plain, WI, Fresh Chèvre Loaf AM Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, India Loevner, Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy, Alison Park, Bongards, MN, Cheese Spread...... 96.85 WI, 4 oz Garlic & Herb PA, Fresh Chèvre

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 35 Charuth Van Beuzekom, Shadow Brook Farm’s Dutch Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Girl Creamery, Lincoln, NE, Garden Herb Chevre Websterville, VT, Fresh Goat Cheese Websterville, VT, Coupole...... 99.55 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Cranberry Orange & Cinnamon...... 98.6 Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, WI, 8 oz Garlic & Herb Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Laura Chenel’s Taupinière 9oz...... 99.45 Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Belmont, WI, 4 oz Honey...... 98.5 Team Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, VT, Crumbled Goat Cheese Cranberry & Tarragon Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura NY, Rawstruck is Coach Farm’s first ever raw Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Chenel’s Summer Fig log 5.4oz milk aged goat cheese...... 99.4 WI, 4 oz Tomato & Basil Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Lancaster on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Chenel’s Honey log 5.4oz Websterville, VT, Bonne Bouche...... 99.4 Cheese, Richfield, WI, Fine Herb Chevre Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Spreadable Idyll Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Klinedinst Family, J2K CAPRAIO, Walkerton, IN, Feta Pastures with Honey and Lavender Laura Chenel’s Ash-rinded Buchette 4.5oz... 99.4 Marinated with French Herbs & Condiments in Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, EVOO VT, Crumbled Goat Cheese Apricot & Thyme VT, Bijou Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures India Loevner, Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy, Alison Park, with Garlic and Herbs-flavored fresh goat cheese with Cherry Preserves PA, Soft Ripen Lactic set Goat milk cheese Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Gris-soft with Garlic and Herbs-flavored fresh goat cheese WI, 4 oz Fig & Olive ripened,ash dusted goat cheese Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Pastures FireFly Farms, Firefly Farms, Accident, MD, Merry Goat Dairy, Rockville, MN, Garlic Herb Chevre with Cherry Preserves Round Spruce Reserve Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Savory Fresh Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Gris-soft chevre-flavored fresh goat cheese WI, 4 oz Peppadew ripened , ash dusted goat cheese Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill Team Woolwich on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Mont Idyll Dairy, Rockville, MN, Peppercorn Chevre Cheese, Richfield, WI, Wild Blueberry Vanilla Chevre Team Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, John Windemuller, Country Winds Creamery, Zeeland, Team Lancaster on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Specialty bloomy rind MI, Sun Dried Tomato flavored chevre Cheese, Richfield, WI, Pumpkin Spice Chevre Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura Fresh Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, Montchevre Team, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Chenel’s Original Buchette 4.5oz VT, Fresh Goat Cheese Herb WI, 4 oz Lemon Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Spreadable Idyll Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, WI, Chevre Fleurie Pastures-Garlic and Herbs WI, 8 oz Blueberry Vanilla Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Spreadable Idyll WI, 2.8 Bucheron Chenel’s Garlic & Chives log 8oz Pastures with Cherry Preserves Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Spreadable Idyll WI, Cabrie Dairy, Rockville, MN, Tomato Basil Chevre Pastures with Cherry Preserves Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill WI, Chevriotte Dairy, Rockville, MN, Fiesta Chevre Dairy, Rockville, MN, Pumpkin Spice Chevre Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Camembert Stickney Hill Chevre Production Team, Stickney Hill Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Dairy, Rockville, MN, Cranberry Cinnamon Chevre WI, 2.2 Bucheron CLASS 75: FLAVORED SOFT GOAT’S MILK Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura CHEESES WITH SWEET CONDIMENTS Chenel’s Crottin 3oz CLASS 76: SURFACE (MOLD) Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, BEST OF CLASS RIPENED GOAT’S MILK CHEESES WI, Bucheron Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Belmont, WI, 4 oz Blueberry Vanilla...... 99.5 BEST OF CLASS WI, Mini Bucheron SECOND AWARD Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Humboldt Fog...... 99.85 Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, WI, Oh La La HIRAM, OH, Apricot Ginger Chevre...... 99.3 SECOND AWARD Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, WI, Mini Cabrie THIRD AWARD Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Truffle Tremor...... 99.8 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, WI, Tricycle Geotrichum Hiram, OH, Cognac Fig Chevre...... 99.1 THIRD AWARD Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co., Jackie Chang, Haystack Mountain Goat Inc., La Valle, WI, Bandaged Billy Dairy, Longmont, CO, Goat Camembert...... 99.75 Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Idyll Team Coach Farm, Coach Farm, Pine Plains, NY, Aged Pastures with Honey and Lavender...... 99 a few weeks Team Mackenzie, Mackenzie Creamery, HIRAM, Aged Cheese Team, Vermont Creamery, Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Camembert OH, Sour Cherry Bourbon Chevre...... 98.95 Websterville, VT, Cremont...... 99.7 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese, La Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Fresh Valle, WI, Snow White Goat Cheddar Belmont, WI, 8 oz Cranberry Cinnamon...... 98.85 goat cheese with a bloomy rind...... 99.7

Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Mont Idyll99.65. Belmont, WI, 4 oz Cranberry Cinnamon...... 98.7 Cypress Grove, Cypress Grove, Arcata, CA, Team Woolwich on behalf of Saputo, Saputo Bermuda Triangle...... 99.65 Specialty Cheese, Richfield, WI, Honey Vanilla Chevre...... 98.6

36 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Anne Doe, Boston Post Dairy, LLC, Enosburg CLASS 77: SEMI-SOFT GOAT’S MILK CHEESES CLASS 78: FLAVORED SEMI-SOFT Falls, VT, Tres Bonne, aged 5 months, Nutty, GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Fruity, flavorful goat milk cheese...... 98.9 BEST OF CLASS jackie chang, haystack mountain goat dairy, Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., longmont, CO, Queso De Mano: raw goat BEST OF CLASS milk aged over 60 days...... 98.8 Belmont, WI, 2# Crumble Tray...... 99.65 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., India Loevner, Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy, Belmont, WI, 4 oz Crumble Apricot & Sage..99.55 SECOND AWARD Alison Park, PA, Goats Milk Gouda...... 98.8 Katie Fuhrmann and Team LaClare Farms, SECOND AWARD John Windemuller, Country Winds Creamery, LaClare Farms Specialties, LLC, Malone, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Zeeland, MI, Aged Tomme WI, Goat Milk Feta- fresh mild balanced Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Cocoa flavor...... 99.45 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Cardona...... 99.45 WI, 8 oz Cheddar THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Trent Hendricks, Cabriejo LLC, Koshkonong, Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, WI, Black Wax Cheddar MO, Queso Cabriejo...... 99.25 Inc., Belmont, WI, 4 oz Crumble Candied Pam Hodgson, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Cranberry...... 99.25 Sartori Limited Edition Extra-Aged Goat John Windemuller, Country Winds Creamery, Lindsey Mendes, Central Coast Creamery, Paso Zeeland, MI, Aged goat milk gouda...... 99.2 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Robles, CA, Goat Cheddar Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Sweet Vanilla Cardona99. Peter Messmer, Lively Run Dairy, Interlaken, NY, Belmont, WI, 2# Crumble Plain Bag...... 99.2 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Lively Run Finger Lakes Gold, batch # 16180104 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Smoked Billy Blue...... 99 Katie Fuhrmann and Team LaClare, LaClare Farms Belmont, WI, Feta...... 99.15 Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Specialties, Malone, WI, Evalon Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Temptation...... 98.9 Consider Bardwell Farm, Consider Bardwell Farm, Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Cardona...... 99.15 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese West Pawlet, VT, Manchester -- raw Goat milk Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Billy Blue...... 98.75 tomme Belmont, WI, 4 oz Crumble Plain...... 99.05 Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, INc., Charuth Van Beuzekom, Shadow Brook Farm’s Dutch Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Belmont, WI, 4 oz crumble Pomegranate & Girl Creamery, Lincoln, NE, Rosa Maria-Batch Mineral Point, WI, Barneveld Blue...... 98.85 Orange...... 98.65 Trent Hendricks, Cabriejo LLC, Koshkonong, MO, Central Coast Creamery, Central Coast Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Organic Goat Cheddar Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Goat Gouda...... 98.8 Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Black Goat Truffle...... 98.65 todd jaskolski, caprine supreme llc, Black Creek, WI, Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Team Chevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, cheddar parm WI, 4 oz Crumbled Feta WI, 4 oz Crumble Onion & Basil...... 98.45 Team Cream - Door County Creamery, Door County Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Bjorn Unseth, Mt. Sterling Creamery, Mt. Sterling, WI, Creamery, Sister Bay, WI, Falltum WI, Fromage Blanc Jalapeno Jack Consider Bardwell Farm, Consider Bardwell Farm, Manon Servouse, Laura Chenel’s, Sonoma, CA, Laura West Pawlet, VT, Danby -- raw goat milk Chenel’s Goat Brie 5oz Bjorn Unseth, Mt. Sterling Creamery, Mt. Sterling, WI, todd jaskolski, caprine supreme llc, Black Creek, WI, CLASS 79: HARD GOAT’S MILK CHEESES Raw Milk Sharp Cheddar feta lot 71311 Katherine Wiste, Capra Nera Creamery LLC, Altura, Erika McKenzie-Chapter, Pennyroyal Farm, Boonville, BEST OF CLASS MN, Contadina: Farmstead Goat Cheese with CA, Natural rind, blue-veined, goat milk Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Natural Rind Team Montchevre, Montchevre-Betin, Inc., Belmont, Belmont, WI, Trivium...... 99.45 team B, Middlefield Original Cheese, Middlefield, OH, WI, Chevre In Blue mild cheddar SECOND AWARD Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Temptation India Loevner, Goat rodeo Farm & Dairy, Alison Park, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley PA, Washed Rind cheese Cheese Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Cave Aged Peter Messmer, Lively Run Dairy, Interlaken, NY, Cardona...... 99.4 Lively Run Cayuga Blue, batch # 17003103 THIRD AWARD CLASS 80: SOFT & SEMI-SOFT Jesse Johnson - Team Cream, Door County Creamery, Katie Fuhrmann and Team LaClare Farms, Sister Bay, WI, Aged Feta SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES LaClare Farms Specialties, LLC, Malone, Erika McKenzie-Chapter, Pennyroyal Farm, Boonville, WI, Grevalon...... 99.35 BEST OF CLASS CA, Natural rind, raw milk tomme Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark FireFly Farms, Firefly Farms, Accident, MD, Black & Erika McKenzie-Chapter, Pennyroyal Farm, Creamery, Albany, WI, Petit Nuage...... 99.75 Blue Batch Boonville, CA, Natural rind, raw milk tomme99.1. Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, westby, WI, Mountain SECOND AWARD jackie chang, haystack mountain goat dairy, Jack Ryan Randell & Peter Baldino, Old Chatham longmont, CO, Gold Hill.pasterized goats Sheepherding Company, Old Chatham, NY, Bjorn Unseth, Mt. Sterling Creamery, Mt. Sterling, WI, milk aged over 60 days...... 99.05 Mini Kinderhook Creek...... 99.6 Mozzarella TrentHendricks, Cabriejo LLC, Koshkonong, THIRD AWARD MO, Organic Goat Cheddar...... 99.05 Ryan Randell & Peter Baldino, Old Chatham Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Sheepherding Company, Old Chatham, NY, ...... Co., Inc., La Valle, WI, Goat Cheddar 99 Kinderhook Creek...... 99.4

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 37 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, westby, WI, Westby, WI, Driftless natural...... 99.05 CLASS 83: HARD SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES Capriko...... 98.65 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Marisa...... 98.5 BEST OF CLASS Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Benedictine...... 98.5 Meadowood Farms, Meadowood Farms, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Cazenovia, NY, Lorenzo...... 98.5 Cheese, Brattleboro, VT, Bear Hill...... 99.7 Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Shepherd’s Blend...... 98.45 Aaron Peper, Cedar Grove Cheese, Plain, WI, SECOND AWARD Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Ovella...... 98.3 Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Bessie’s Blend...... 98.45 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, WI, Ocooch Reserve...... 99.65 Echo Mountain Blue, Rogue Creamery, Central Westby, WI, Farmstead Feta...... 97.9 Point, OR, Echo Mountain Blue...... 98.35 THIRD AWARD Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Cedar Grove Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Creamery, Albany, WI, Pipit...... 97.55 Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Canaria...... 98.25 Plain, WI, Donatello...... 99.6 Hidden Springs Creamery, Hidden Springs Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Creamery, WESTBY, WI, sweet cheddar...... 96.5 Mineral Point, WI, EWE CALF to be KIDding Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Mineral Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Blue...... 98.25 Point, WI, Little Boy Blue Westby, WI, Ocooch Grande...... 99.3 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, westby, WI, Sheep Milk Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Airco...... 98.25 Cheddar Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Aged Marisa...... 99 Cheddar Team, Rogue Creamery, Central Point, OR, Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Mount Mazama Cheddar Creamery, Albany, WI, Pecora Nocciola...... 98.9 CLASS 81: FLAVORED SOFT & SEMI- Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, SOFT SHEEP’S MILK CHEESES Westby, WI, Ocooch Grande Reserve...... 98.85 CLASS 85: SURFACE (MOLD) Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese RIPENED MIXED MILK CHEESES Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Big Mutton Button...... 98.8 BEST OF CLASS Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Murray’s Cheese & Old Chatham BEST OF CLASS Westby, WI, Manchego...... 98.4 Sheepherding Co., Murray’s Cheese, Long Sheila Flanagan, Lumazu LLC dba Nettle Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Island City, NY, Hudson Flower...... 98.4 Meadow, Warrensburg, NY, Briar Summit...... 98.9 Westby, WI, Ocooch...... 98.25 SECOND AWARD Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, SECOND AWARD Eric Anderson & Gregory Bankes, Old Sheila Flanagan, Lumazu LLC dba Nettle Westby, WI, Timber Coulee...... 98.25 Chatham Sheepherding Company, Old Meadow, Warrensburg, NY, Sappy Ewe...... 98.7 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, Chatham, NY, Shaker Blue...... 98.35 WI, Manchego Reserve THIRD AWARD THIRD AWARD WORLD CLASS SHEEP CHEESE OF WI, ECKERMAN Ryan Randell & Peter Baldino, Old Chatham Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, SHEEP COMPANY, ANTIGO, WI, DELICATE, MILD Sheepherding Company, Old Chatham, NY, Westby, WI, Driftless- Cranberry Cinnamon. 98.15 CONTINENTAL FLAVOR Hudson Valley Camembert...... 98.45 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, WI, Timber Coulee Grande Katie Fuhrmann and Team LaClare, LaClare westby, WI, Driftless - Honey/Lavender...... 98.1 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, Farms, Malone, WI, Martone...... 98.2 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, WI, Timber Coulee Reserve Sheila Flanagan, Lumazu LLC dba Nettle Westby, WI, Driftless- Maple...... 97.85 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, Meadow, Warrensburg, NY, Three Sisters...... 98.1 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, WI, Timber Coulee Grande Reserve Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Westby, WI, Driftless - Basil/Olive Oil...... 97.65 Idyllweiss-rich, creamy, goat/cows milk Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese cheese...... 97.8 Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Black Sheep Truffle...... 97.6 CLASS 84: SOFT & SEMI-SOFT Team Idyll, Idyll Farms, Northport, MI, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Idyllweiss-rich, creamy, soft ripened goat/ MIXED MILK CHEESES cows milk cheese...... 97.1 Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Porto Duet...... 97.2 Ryan Randell & Peter Baldino, Old Chatham Eric Anderson & Gregory Bankes, Old BEST OF CLASS Chatham Sheepherding Company, Old Sheepherding Company, Old Chatham, NY, Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Nancy’s Hudson Valley Camembert...... 95.95 Chatham, NY, Ewe’s Blue...... 97.05 Petaluma, CA, Blackstone - A Bellwether Charuth van Beuzekom, Shadow Brook Farm’s Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Farms Original...... 99.35 Creamery, Albany, WI, Landmark Creamery Dutch Girl Creamery, Lincoln, NE, Graydon Blue...... 95.25 Brebi--Sweet...... 96.7 SECOND AWARD Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Landmark Creamery Team, Landmark Creamery, Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Mobay...... 99.05 Albany, WI, Landmark Creamery Brebis--Savory THIRD AWARD Anthony Ellis, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Bay, WI, BelGioioso Crumbly Gorgonzola with Sheep’s Milk...... 98.85

Lorraine Lambiase, Lumazu LLC dba Nettle Meadow, Warrensburg, ny, Habanero Peach Fromage Frais...... 98.8

38 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Graf, Graf Creamery, Bonduel, WI, Salted Len Dion, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, West CLASS 86: HARD MIXED MILK CHEESES Butter...... 99.3 Springfield, MA, Unsalted Creamery Butter Grassland Dairy Products, Grassland Dairy Solids...... 98.3 BEST OF CLASS Products, Greenwood, WI, Salted Butter...... 99.25 AMPI Team 1, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, Creamery Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, 3rd Shift, Foremost Farms USA, Reedsburg, butter, unsalted...... 98.2 WI, Sartori Tre Donnes...... 99.8 WI, Salted Butter...... 99.2 Team Graf, Graf Creamery Inc., Bonduel, WI, Unsalted Butter...... 98.2 SECOND AWARD AMPI Team 2, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, Creamery butter, salted...... 99.1 AMPI Team 2, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, Creamery Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, butter, unsalted...... 97.95 WI, Sartori Limited Edition Pastorale Blend99.6. Len Dion, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, West Springfield, MA, Creamery Butter...... 98.7 California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., THIRD AWARD California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., Visalia, CA, Unsalted Butter...... 97.8 Central Coast Creamery, Central Coast Visalia, CA, Salted Butter...... 98.65 Len Dion, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, West Creamery, Paso Robles, CA, Seascape...... 99.5 Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Springfield, MA, Unsalted Creamery Butter Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Pasture (Salted Solids...... 97.7 Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, & Cultured) Butter...... 98.65 Team 3, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, Batavia, NY, Westby, WI, Meadow Melody...... 99.45 AMPI Team 1, AMPI, New Ulm, MN, Creamery butter, Unsalted Butter Mike Matucheski, Sartori Company, Antigo, WI, salted Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, VT, Sartori Tre Donnes (Basket Weave)...... 99.45 Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese, Cultured Butter Unsalted Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Willows, CA, Organic Sweet Cream Salted Butter Team 4, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, Batavia, NY, Westby, WI, Meadow Melody Grande Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, VT, Unsalted Butter Reserve...... 98.95 Cultured Butter Lightly Salted Michigan Milk Producers Association - Ovid, MI, GVC Cheesemakers, Grafton Village Cheese, Len Dion, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, West Michigan Milk Producers Association, Ovid, MI, Brattleboro, VT, Shepsog...... 98.65 Springfield, Ma, Creamery Butter CMF 80% Lot Code to be determined Cedar Grove Team, Cedar Grove Cheese, Plain, 1st Shift, Foremost Farms USA, Reedsburg, WI, Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, WI, Montague...... 98.6 Salted Butter La Farge, WI, Organic European Style (Cultured) Butter Standard Market, Standard Market, Westmont, Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, Websterville, VT, IL, Standard Market Cave Aged Chandoka.... 98.45 Cultured Butter with Sea Salt Crystals Rumiano Cheese Company, Rumiano Cheese, Willows, CA, Organic Unsalted Butter India Loevner, Goat Rodeo Farm & Dairy, West Point Dairy, West Point Dairy, West Point, NE, Alison Park, PA, Stirred curd cheese with a European-Style Salted Butter Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley, rubbed coffee rind...... 98.4 La Farge, WI, Organic Cultured Butter 2nd Shift, Foremost Farms USA, Reedsburg, WI, Erika McKenzie-Chapter, Pennyroyal Farm, Boonville, Salted Butter Smith, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, pure golden CA, Natural rind, raw milk tomme butter Michigan Milk Producers Association - Ovid, MI, Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Ovid, MI, WI, Meadow Melody Grande 2% salted Butter - Lot code to be determined Brenda Jensen, Hidden Springs Creamery, Westby, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese, La CLASS 90: FLAVORED BUTTER WI, Meadow Melody Reserve Valle, WI, Goat Butter Anne Doe, Boston Post Dairy, LLC, Enosburg Falls, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese, La BEST OF CLASS VT, Gisele Valle, WI, Menage Butter Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, westby, WI, Cinnamon/Sugar Butter...... 98.85 Team Hook, Hook’s Cheese Company, Inc., Mineral Bjorn Unseth, Mt. Sterling Creamery, Mt. Sterling, WI, Point, WI, Triple Play-Lot 061607A Whey Cream Goat Butter Salted SECOND AWARD Katie Fuhrmann and Team LaClare, LaClare Farms, Smith, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, pure golden Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, westby, WI, Malone, WI, Chandoka butter made with Redmont Sea Salt Garlic and Basil Butter...... 98.65 THIRD AWARD Butter Team, Vermont Creamery, CLASS 88: BUTTER CLASS 89: UNSALTED BUTTER Websterville, VT, Cultured Butter with Sea Salt & Maple...... 98.45 BEST OF CLASS BEST OF CLASS Team 1, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, Al Bekkum, Nordic Creamery, westby, WI, Michigan Milk Producers Association - Ovid, Batavia, NY, Salted Butter...... 99.8 Cultured Butter...... 98.85 MI, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Ovid, MI, 80% Unsalted with Natural Flavor.98.4 SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD Team 2, OATKA Milk Products Coop, Inc, West Point Dairy Products, West Point Pine River Dairy, Pine River Dairy, Manitowoc, Batavia, NY, Salted Butter...... 99.5 Dairy Products, West Point, NE, European- WI, European Style Butter...... 98.25 THIRD AWARD Style unsalted butter...... 98.65 Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, 85% Grass Fed Orange Honey Butter...... 97.65 Team Chaseburg, CROPP Cooperative/ THIRD AWARD Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Salted Grassland Dairy Products, Grassland Dairy California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., Butter...... 99.4 Visalia, CA, Spreadable Butter with Canola Products, Greenwood, WI, Unsalted Butter.98.45 Oil...... 97.55 Penn Cheese, Penn Cheese, Winfield, PA, 85% California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., Organic Grass Fed Garlic Parmesan Butter.. 97.3 Visalia, CA, European Style Salted Super Visalia, CA, European Style Unsalted Super Premium Butter...... 99.3 Premium Butter...... 98.4

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 39 California Dairies, Inc., California Dairies, Inc., Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers North Country Dairy, Upstate Niagara Visalia, CA, Spreadable Butter with Olive Oil97.05. International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Plain Yogurt93.4. Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Nonfat Greek Yogurt...... 98.7 Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, CLASS 92: LOWFAT - COW’S CLASS 94: YOGURT- COW’S MILK, FLAVORED IA, Plain Greek 1% Cream-Top Farmstead MILK YOGURT, FLAVORED Yogurt...... 98.25 BEST OF CLASS Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt 0%...... 98.25 BEST OF CLASS Smith, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Organic Irish Homestead Strawberry Whole Milk Dennis Allaire, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, West Seneca Culture Division, Upstate Yogurt...... 96.75 Cabot, VT, Vermont Greek Yogurt 2%...... 98.1 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Lowfat Blended Yogurt - Vanilla Maple...... 98.2 SECOND AWARD SECOND AWARD North Country Dairry, Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc, Buffalo, NY, Organic CLASS 96: HIGH PROTEIN - COW’S West Seneca Culture Division, Upstate Whole Milk Yogurt - Vanilla...... 96.35 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, MILK YOGURT, FLAVORED Blended Lowfat Yogurt - Coffee...... 97.1 THIRD AWARD BEST OF CLASS THIRD AWARD Smith, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Organic Irish Homestead Vanilla Bean Whole Milk Ron Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Yogurt...... 95.75 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Vanilla....99.85 Hawkeye, IA, Vanilla Cream-Top Farmstead Yogurt...... 96.7 SECOND AWARD Team Saint Benoit, Saint Benoit Creamery, Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Petaluma, CA, Organic French Vanilla Whole Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt North Country Dairy, Upstate Niagara Jersey Cow’s Milk Yogurt...... 95.6 Pomegranate Acai...... 99.7 Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Lowfat Blended Yogurt - Strawberry...... 96.15 Team Saint Benoit, Saint Benoit Creamery, THIRD AWARD Petaluma, CA, Organic Strawberry Whole North Country Dairy, Upstate Niagara Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Jersey Cow’s Milk Yogurt...... 94.75 Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Blended Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Yogurt - Key Lime...... 96 Smith, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Organic Raspberry...... 99.55 Irish Homestead Peach Whole Milk Yogurt.... 94.7 Luwdig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc., Dixon, IL, Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Yogurt 5 Grain Twist - Plum & Grains...... 95.85 Westby, Westby Cooperative Creamery, Westby, International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Pina Colada94.25. Ludwig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc., Dixon, IL, WI, Smari Icelandic Yogurt Vanilla...... 99.5 Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Yogurt 5 Grain Twist - Raspberry & Grains.... 94.7 Dennis Allaire, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Strawberry.94.15 West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Cabot, VT, Vermont Coconut Greek Yogurt..... 99.15 Team Schreiber, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Dave O’Dell, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Lowfat Cupset Yogurt...... 94.6 Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Vanilla Cabot, VT, Vermont Strawberry Greek Yogurt99.15. Grassmilk Yogurt...... 94.15 West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Team Saint Benoit, Saint Benoit Creamery, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Peach...... 99.1 Organic Lowfat Yogurt...... 94.25 Petaluma, CA, Organic Meyer Lemon Whole Jersey Cow’s Milk Yogurt...... 94.15 Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers International, Pomegranate Acai...... 98.95 Inc., Hanford, CA, Guava CLASS 93: YOGURT- COW’S MILK Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Peach...... 98.95 BEST OF CLASS CLASS 95: HIGH PROTEIN - COW’S MILK YOGURT Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Team Schreiber, CROPP Cooperative/ WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lofat Blueberry.... 98.9 Organic Valley, La Farge, WI, Organic Plain Steve Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Grassmilk Yogurt...... 96.6 BEST OF CLASS WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Raspberry98.9. Westby, Westby Cooperative Creamery, SECOND AWARD Kevin Gray, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Westby, WI, Smari Icelandic Yogurt Plain...... 99.2 Narragansett Creamery, Narragansset Cabot, VT, Vermont Vanilla Bean Greek Yogurt98.9. Creamery, Providence, RI, Whole Milk Plain SECOND AWARD Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, Yogurt...... 96.45 Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt Mango...... 98.9 Monroe, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt 10%...... 99.15 THIRD AWARD Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Smith, Pure Eire Dairy, Othello, WA, Organic THIRD AWARD Odyssey Greek Yogurt Blueberry Irish Homestead Plain Whole Milk Yogurt...... 94.65 Peter Marschall, Cabot Creamery Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, WI, Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont Greek Odyssey Greek Yogurt Lowfat Mango Yogurt 10%...... 99.1 North Country Dairy, Upstate Niagara North Country Dairy, Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Organic Inc., Buffalo, NY, Nonfat GreekYogurt - Bluberry Whole Milk Yogurt - Blended...... 94.35 Adam Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Co., Monroe, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Niagara Team Saint Benoit, Saint Benoit Creamery, WI, Odyssey Greek Yogurt 2%...... 99.05 Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Nonfat Greek Yogurt Petaluma, CA, Organic Original Jersey Cow’s West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate - Vanilla Milk Yogurt...... 94.3 Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Niagara West Seneca Cultured Division, Upstate Nonfat Greek Yogurt...... 98.95 Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Nonfat Greek Niagara Cooperative, Inc., Buffalo, NY, Yogurt - Black Cherry Whole Milk Cupset Yogurt...... 94.3

40 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, IA, Alex Quiles, Tropical Cheese Industries, Inc., Casey Berget, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Vanilla 1% Cream-Top Farmstead Greek Yogurt Perth Amboy, NJ, Mango drinkable...... 99.35 Foods, Browntown, WI, Oaxaca Cheese Peter Marschall, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Cabot, Alex Quiles, Tropical Cheese Industries, Inc., Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori VT, Vermont Honey Greek Yogurt Perth Amboy, NJ, Passion Fruit drinkable...... 99.35 Classic Parmesan - Shaved Dave Rapson, Country View Dairy, Hawkeye, IA, Ken Heiman, Nasonville Dairy, Inc, Marshfield, Jon Jay Lewis, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Lemon Custard Cream-Top Farmstead 1% Greek WI, Keifer...... 99.25 Foods, Browntown, WI, Mozzarella Shred Yogurt Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers JCC-Team 4, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Low Moisture Whole International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Mango Milk Mozzarella Feather Cut Drinkable Yogurt...... 99.25 CLASS 97: YOGURT - ALL OTHER MILKS Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Strawberry CLASS 100: OPEN CLASS SHREDDED CHEESE BEST OF CLASS Drinkable...... 98.95 BLENDS, FLAVORED & UNFLAVORED George Roehrig and Team LaClare, LaClare Alex Quiles, Tropical Cheese Industries, Inc., Farms, Malone, WI, LaClare Farms Goat Perth Amboy, NJ, Pomegranate /Raspberry Milk Yogurt- Vanilla...... 99.8 drinkable...... 98.85 BEST OF CLASS Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers International, Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery SECOND AWARD Inc., Hanford, CA, Mango Smoothie Foods, Inc, Plymouth, WI, Gourmet Cheddar George Roehrig and Team LaClare, LaClare Blend...... 99.6 Farms, Malone, WI, LaClare Farms Goat Milk Yogurt- Original...... 99.55 SECOND AWARD CLASS 99: OPEN CLASS SHREDDED Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery THIRD AWARD Foods, Inc, Plymouth, WI, Cheddar, Gruyere George Roehrig and Team LaClare, LaClare CHEESE, FLAVORED & UNFLAVORED & Asiago Blend...... 99.25 Farms, Malone, WI, LaClare Farms Goat THIRD AWARD Milk Yogurt- Blueberry...... 99.5 BEST OF CLASS Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, County Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Farmstyle NJ, Cello Shredded Parmesan...... 98.35 George Roehrig and Team LaClare, LaClare Cheddar Jack Shreds...... 98.6 Farms Specialties, LLC, Malone, WI, Goat SECOND AWARD Milk Yogurt- Strawberry...... 99.45 JCC-Team 4, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Sharp Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Laura DiStefano, Old Chatham Sheepherding Cheddar Feather Cut Shred...... 98.3 Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Farmstyle Company, Old Chatham, NY, Sheep’s Milk THIRD AWARD Mexican 4 Cheese Shreds...... 97.5 Yogurt - Ginger...... 99.45 Team Appleton, Foremost Farms USA, Shred Team, Associated Milk Producers, Inc, Laura DiStefano, Old Chatham Sheepherding Appleton, WI, Shredded LMWM Mozzarella Portage, WI, Cheddar Jack Cheese Feather Company, Old Chatham, NY, Sheep’s Milk Lot...... 98.25 Shred...... 97.4 Yogurt - Mission Fig...... 99.3 Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Laura DiStefano, Old Chatham Sheepherding Inc, Plymouth, WI, Chipotle & Habanero 2 Company, Old Chatham, NY, Sheep’s Milk South Side Plymouth, Great Lakes Cheese- Cheese Blend...... 97.2 Yogurt - Plain...... 99.15 Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, Two Pound White Medium Shredded Cheese...... 98.2 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Petaluma, Sartori Triple Jack...... 97.05 CA, Blackberry Sheep Milk Yogurt...... 98.6 Dan Reed, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Liam Callahan, Bellwether Farms, Petaluma, Cheese...... 97.95 Sartori Reserve Tuscan Blend...... 97 CA, Plain Sheep Milk Yogurt...... 98.55 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Team Chula Vista/V&V Supremo, Chula Laura DiStefano, Old Chatham Sheepherding Sartori Classic Parmesan - Shred...... 97.85 Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Foods, Company, Old Chatham, NY, Sheep’s Milk Browntown, WI, Chihuahua/Oaxaca/Cotija Yogurt - Maple...... 97.9 Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Blend...... 97 Inc., Plymouth, WI, Shredded Colby Jack...... 97.5 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Nampa Shred Team, Lactalis American Group, Nampa, ID, Precious Shred Blend...... 96.95 CLASS 98: DRINKABLE CULTURED Sartori Classic Asiago - Shred...... 97.4 Jeff Matthes, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Sharp Shredders, Great Lakes Cheese-Plymouth, PRODUCTS - ALL FLAVORS/ALL MILKS Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Plymouth, WI, 50/50 Blend of White and Colored Sharp Cheese...... 97.35 BEST OF CLASS Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Mexican 5 Cheese Ludwig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc., Dixon, IL, Sartori Reserve SarVecchio Parmesan...... 97.25 Kefir - Plain, reduced fat milk...... 99.9 The Parmers, Great Lakes Cheese-Plymouth, Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Artisan Cheddar Blends SECOND AWARD Plymouth, WI, One Pound bag of Matchstick Ludwig Dairy, Ludwig Dairy, Inc, Dixon, IL, Parmesan...... 97.25 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Regal Blend Kefir - Strawberry, reduced fat milk...... 99.8 Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook County Creamery, Tillamook, OR, Farmstyle Sharp Shreds JCC-Team 4, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Cheddar/Monterey THIRD AWARD Jack V-Cut Shred Blend Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori International, Inc., Hanford, CA, Pina Reserve Rosemary & Olive Oil Asiago JCC-Team 4, Agropur, Jerome, ID, Pizza Blend Shred Colada Drinkable...... 99.75 Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Team Sartori, Sartori Company, Plymouth, WI, Sartori Reserve Merlot BellaVitano MontAmore & BellaVitano Blend Nuestro Queso, Nuestro Queso, LLC, Rosemont, IL, Tom Dahmen, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo Alex Quiles, Tropical Cheese Industries, Inc., Para Fundir Shredded cheese from Nuestro Queso Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua/Oaxaca Blend Perth Amboy, Nj, Guava Mango drinkable..... 99.4

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 41 Team Appleton, Foremost Farms USA, Appleton, WI, Jose Sanchez, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Whole Milk Mozz, Provolone and Colored Cheddar Harbor, MI, Baked Brie w/ Cranberry, Apricot and Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Jimmy the Greek Shred Blend Almonds White Cheddar Curds Marquez Brothers, Marquez Brothers International, Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Bel Brands USA - Brookings, SD, Bel Brands USA, Inc., Hanford, CA, Authentic Mexican Blend Inc., LaValle, WI, Bread Cheese Brookings, SD, Mozzarella Style Mini Babybel Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Bel Brands USA - Brookings, Bel Brands USA, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Pre-sliced chorizo and Brookings, SD, Original Flavor Mini Babybel CLASS 101: PREPARED CHEESE FOODS cilantro roll Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Farmstead Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese, Darlington, WI, Cheese,LLC, Waterloo, WI, Yellow Cheddar Cheese BEST OF CLASS Brun-uusto Baked Cheese with Garlic Curds Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Cheese Co. Inc., LaValle, WI, Garlic Bread Inc., LaValle, WI, Goat Bread Cheese Inc., Algoma, WI, Mozzarella Whip String Cheese Cheese...... 99.65 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Bel Brands USA - Brookings, SD, Bel Brands USA, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Artisan Brookings, SD, White Cheddar Style Mini Babybel SECOND AWARD Wrap Tray- Prosciutto Team Pasture Pride, Pasture Pride Cheese, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf LLC, Cashton, WI, Juustoleipa...... 99.55 Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Cheesemakers, Inc, Monroe, WI, Garlic & Dill Inc., LaValle, WI, Chipotle Bread Cheese White Cheddar Curds THIRD AWARD Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian NJ, Cello Cheddar Whisps Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, BETTA Arizona Farms Cheese Vat A Team, Arizona Farms BRIE...... 99.5 CLASS 102: NATURAL SNACK CHEESE Cheese, TEMPE, AZ, Cheddar Cheese Curds BEST OF CLASS Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Inc., Brodhead, WI, Team Brunkow, Brunkow Cheese, Darlington, Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Curds WI, Brun-uusto Baked Cheese Original...... 99.4 Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Curds...... 99.45 Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Snack Cheese Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Pre-sliced Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Sopresatta roll...... 99.35 SECOND AWARD Jose Marin, BelGioioso Cheese Inc., Green Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Snack Cheese Liliana Leyva, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Bay, WI, BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Renard’s Rosewood Dairy, Harbor, MI, Plain Baked Brie...... 99.3 Snacking Cheese...... 99 Inc., Algoma, WI, Cheese Curds Team Pasture Pride Cheese, Pasture Pride The Artisan Cheese Exchange, Alpine Slicing & Cheese, LLC, Cashton, WI, Juusto with THIRD AWARD Cheese Conversion, Monroe, WI, Apollo’s Gift Chipolte Peppers...... 99.3 Cut & Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Lactose Free Mozzarella Jack Cheese Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont Sharp...... 98.85 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Pre-sliced Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Snack Cheese Capicola & Fresh Basil Roll...... 99.2 Crave Brothers Team, Crave Brothers Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Farmstead Cheese, LLC, Waterloo, WI, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s White Cheddar Cheese Curds...... 98.8 Artisan Wrap Tray- Genoa...... 99.15 Fresh Mozz Team, Lactalis American Group, CLASS 103: NATURAL SLICED CHEESE Team Pasture Pride Cheese, Pasture Pride Nampa, ID, Galbani Mozzarella Fresca Fresh Cheese, LLC, Cashton, WI, Juustoleipa Mozzarella Snack...... 98.8 BEST OF CLASS Italiano...... 99.15 Bel Brands USA - Brookings, SD, Bel Brands Slice Samurai, Great Lakes Cheese- Howard Goens Jr., Old Europe Cheese, Inc., USA, Brookings, SD, Light Mini Babybel...... 98.8 Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, 8 ounce Havarti Shingle Slices...... 98.6 Benton Harbor, MI, Baked Brie With Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Cherries and Almonds...... 99.15 Fairfield, NJ, Cello Whisps - Parmesan...... 98.75 SECOND AWARD Liliana Leyva, Old Europe Cheese, Inc., Benton Team Pasture Pride Cheese, Pasture Pride Team Wapsie, Wapsie Valley Creamery, Harbor, MI, Baked Brie With Apples and Cheese, LLC1, Cashton, WI, Goat Milk Mild Independence, IA, Sliced Colby Jack...... 98.1 Cinnamon...... 99.15 Cheddar Snack Sticks...... 98.65 THIRD AWARD Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Cut &Wrap Team, Cabot Creamery Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Artisan Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Vermont, Extra- Wrap Tray- Applewood Smoked Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Cabot Sharp Sliced Sharp Cheddar Cracker Cut...... 98.55 Cheddar...... 98.05 Team Pasture Pride Cheese, Pasture Pride Cheese, Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf LLC, Cashton, WI, Juustoleipa with Bacon Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Colored Crumbles Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Cheddar Curd...... 98.5 Inc, Plymouth, WI, Colby Jack Slices...... 97.7 Team Pasture Pride Cheese, Pasture Pride Cheese, Team Pasture Pride Cheese, Pasture Pride Cheese, LLC, Cashton, WI, Guusto LLC, Cashton, WI, Goat Milk Colby Jack Snack Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Sticks Inc., Plymouth, WI, Red Rind Muenster Slices...... 97.45 Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Artisan Team Arthur Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, Wrap Tray- Pepperoni NJ, Cello Asiago and Pepper Jack Whisps Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Inc., Plymouth, WI, Chipotle Cheddar Slices97.4. Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Team V&V Supremo, V&V Supremo Foods, Inc., Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Formaggio’s Artisan Chicago, IL, Queso Fresco Snack Cheese Slice D Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, Wrap Tray- Soppressata Bongards, MN, Mild Cheddar Slice on Slice.97.1 Maple Leaf Cheesemaking Team, Maple Leaf Carr Valley Cheese Makers, Carr Valley Cheese Co. Cheesemakers, Inc., Monroe, WI, Bold Taco White Inc., LaValle, WI, Jalapeno Bread Cheese Cheddar Curd

42 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST North Side Rigid Slice, Great Lakes Cheese- Ciolo, Ciolo Foods, Lafayette, CO, Truffled Ricotta Cold Pack Team, Old Fashioned Foods, Mayville, WI, Plymouth, Plymouth, WI, 8 ounce package of Dip...... 98.1 Cheddar Snack Spread 3/4 ounce slices of Aged Cheddar...... 96.95 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Kim Oglesby/John Johansen, YES I FOODS, Mt. Mark Boelk, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Italian Meat Pleasant, SC, Green Chile Cheese Spread Supremo Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Stuffed Mozzarella...... 97.95 Winona Foods, Winona Foods, Green Bay, WI, Roasted Cheese Slice...... 96.95 Rising Sun Farms, Rising Sun Farms, PHOENIX, Red Pepper & Garlic Goat Cheese Spread Tim Pehl, Chula Vista Cheese Co./V&V Supremo OR, Marionberry Cheese Torta...... 97.7 Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Foods, Browntown, WI, Chihuahua Cheese Michael H. Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, Applewood Smoked Slice...... 96.6 Linwood, MI, Roasted Red Pepper & Onion Stuffed Mozzarella North Slice, Great Lakes Cheese-Plymouth, Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 97.65 Winona Foods, Winona Foods, Green Bay, WI, Three Plymouth, WI, Eight Ounce Swiss Cheese Ciolo, Ciolo Foods, Lafayette, CO, Artichoke Pepper Kick Goat Cheese Spread Shingles...... 96.6 Parmesan Spread...... 97.55 Kim Oglesby/John Johansen, YES I FOODS, Mt. Masters Gallery Foods, Masters Gallery Foods, Inc., Michael H. Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Pleasant, SC, Sriracha Cheese Spread Plymouth, WI, Organic Provolone Slices Linwood, MI, Roasted Pineapple Habanero Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, New Slice A Shift, Bongards Premium Cheese, Bongards, Gourmet Spreadable Cheese...... 97.4 Holland, PA, Alouette Mediterranean Vegetable MN, Provolone Slice on Slice Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, Cheese Dip Team Schuman, Schuman Cheese, Fairfield, NJ, Bella New Holland, PA, Alouette Cucumber Ranch Alouette Cheese USA, Alouette Cheese USA, New Rosa Cracker cut sliced cheese Cheese Dip...... 97.1 Holland, PA, Alouette Onion Medley Cheese Dip Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Cheese Ladd Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Linwood, Specialities, Hurleyville, NY, Truffle Oil & Basil MI, Fire Roasted Pimento Spread Stuffed Mozzarella CLASS 104: CHEESE BASED SPREADS Blue Moose, Blue Moose of Boulder, Lafayette, CO, Kim Oglesby/John Johansen, YES I FOODS, Mt. Green Chile & Aged Cheddar Spread Pleasant, SC, Dill Pickle Cheese Spread BEST OF CLASS Ciolo, Ciolo Foods, Lafayette, CO, White Balsamic Fig Anthony Mongiello, Formaggio Italian Winona Foods, Winona Foods, Green Bay, WI, Sharp Spread Cheese Specialties, Hurleyville, NY, 2-Cheese Cheddar Cheese Spread Martha Davis Kipcak, Mighty Fine Food, Milwaukee, Stuffed Mozzarella...... 98.7 Martha Davis Kipcak, Mighty Fine Food, Milwaukee, WI, Martha’s Pimento Cheese with Chile de Árbol WI, Martha’s Pimento Cheese with Jalapeño SECOND AWARD Ciolo, Ciolo Foods, Lafayette, CO, Garlic Basil Spread Rising Sun Farms, Rising Sun Farms, Michael H. Williams, Williams Cheese Company, Team Bel Brands USA, Bel Brands USA, Little Chute, PHOENIX, OR, Pesto Dried Tomato Cheese Linwood, MI, Raspberry Pineapple Gourmet WI, Owl’s Nest Cheddary Cheese Spread Torta...... 98.35 Spreadable Cheese TEAM PINE RIVER, PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, INC, Blue Moose, Blue Moose of Boulder, Lafayette, CO, THIRD AWARD Newton, WI, PIMENTO COLD PACK CHEESE SPREAD Roasted Red Pepper & Aged Cheddar Spread Martha Davis Kipcak, Mighty Fine Food, Kim Oglesby/John Johansen, YES I FOODS, Mt. Milwaukee, WI, Martha’s Pimento Cheese Dustin Stark, Welcome Dairy, LLC, Colby, WI, Pasteurized Process Cheese Sauce w/Jalapeno Pleasant, SC, Scotch Bonnet Pepper Cheese Spread Mild...... 98.2 Peppers

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 43 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association wishes to recognize and 2017 CONTEST VOLUNTEERS thank everyone that participated in making the 19th Biennial We owe a great deal of gratitude to the volunteers that help the Contest run United States Championship Cheese Contest a record-breaking smoothly, efficiently, and successfully. Thank success. First, a sincere thank you to our judges: you to all the volunteers who spent many hours with us to ensure a well-run Contest. LITTLE CHUTE CHIEF JUDGE Samantha Erickson, Saputo, WI Robert Aschebrock, Stratford, WI Eric Goan, Mississippi State, MS CHECK-IN VOLUNTEERS Glenn Hatcher, Pacific Cheese, CA Robert Aschebrock CHIEF JUDGE, EMERITUS Kathy Howe, WI DATCP, WI Jim Mueller Bill Schlinsog, Middleton, WI John Jaeggi, Larry Bell Center for Dairy Research, WI Brian Eggebrecht Mark Johnson, Randy Swensen ASSISTANT CHIEF JUDGES Center for Dairy Research, WI Stan Dietsche, Oshkosh Cheese Mike Demuth, Agropur Kerry Kaylegian, Penn State, PA Sales & Storage, Oshkosh, WI Micah Klug, Agropur Greg Kinate, Winona Foods, WI Tim Czmowski, Agropur, Inc., Hull, IA Klay Konrad, Agropur Dan Konz, DairiConcepts, MN Jim Mueller, Mueller Consulting, Ram Kumar, Agropur Green Bay, WI Laura Laehn, Masters Gallery, WI Jake Wagner, Agropur Sandy Toney, Masters Gallery Foods, Terry Lensmire, Agropur, WI Plymouth, WI Charles Lindberg, Samantha Forster, Aladdin Label NY State Agriculture, NY David Wangerin, Bella Pak, LLC. CONTEST CHAIRMAN Michelle Malone, Schreiber Foods, WI Don Otter, Center for Dairy Research Brian Eggebrecht, Welcome Dairy, Mariana Marques de Almeida, Jon Krein, Cheese Consultant Colby, WI Ms. J & Co., WI Kim Schwartzmiller, Emmi Roth USA Max McCalman, maxvol, inc., NY Josh Henning, Henning Cheese EXPERT JUDGES Neville McNaughton, CheezSource, MO Eric Fedoravicius, Kelley Supply, Inc. Jill Allen, Tillamook Cheese, OR Christophe Megevand, Everett Lunn, Kelley Supply, Inc. Arthur Schuman, NJ Greg Anderson, Kroger Company, MN Kolinda Otten, Marieke Gouda Virgil Metzger, Consultant, IL Doug Anker, Consultant, WA Mary Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Inc. Gina Mode, Austin Asche, Agropur, IA Center for Dairy Research, WI Phil Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Inc. Kirk Baldwin, Valley Queen, SD Ken Neumeier, WI Aging and Grading, WI Ron Pagel, POWER Engineers, Inc Marc Bates, Bates Consulting, OR Ben Novak, Novak’s Cheese, WI Matt Zimbric, Saputo Cheese USA Larry Bell, Bell Consulting, WI Mike Pederson, WI DATCP, WI Joshua Vandenberg, Sargento Tonya Birkrem, Schreiber Foods, WI David Satterness, Chr. Hansen, SD Amanda Muehlbauer, Sargento Foods Inc. Tori Boomgaarden Gross, Kemps, MN John Simpson, USDA, IL Laura Spielvogel, Sargento Foods, Inc Robert Bradley, Marianne Smukowski, Michael Grailer, Sargento Goods Inc. University of Wisconsin, WI Center for Dairy Research, WI Bob Ehrenberg, Taylor Cheese Corp. Ted Brown, Cabot Creamery, VT Cathy Strange, Whole Foods, TX Mark Collins, Tetra Pak Filtration Solutions David Burk, Marathon Cheese, WI Don Tribby, Dupont, KS Lynn Thusius K.J. Burrington, Eric Vorpahl, Grassland, WI Center for Dairy Research, WI Michael Mann David Wentz, Sargento, WI Michael Comotto, DairiConcepts, MO Kirsten Otter Charles White, Benedicte Coude, Schuman Cheese, CA William Wangerin University of Tennessee, TN Richard Dargan, Dargan Consulting, FL Matt Zimbric, Saputo, WI Todd Druhot, Gourmet Foods Intl., GA Special thanks to Randy Swensen, Jim Mueller, Larry Bell and Bob Aschebrock who worked for several days prior to check-in, 44 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST hauling, sorting and re-boxing cheese. GREEN BAY CONTEST VOLUNTEERS Kolinda Otten, Marieke Gouda CONTEST COMMITTEE Cole Johnson, Agropur Marieke Penterman, Marieke Gouda Kevin Thome, The Cheese Reporter Roger Krohn, Agropur Kim Rabuck, Marieke Gouda Dan Stearns, Agropur Morgan Thomes, Agropur Kelsey Hau, Masters Gallery Foods, Inc. Craig Linz, Tetra Pak Dan Stearns, Agropur Jered Krueger, Masters Gallery Foods, Inc. Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Samantha Forster, Aladdin Label Joan Reneau, Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy Northern Wisconsin Produce Co. Jim Natzke, Alpine Slicing/ Randy Swensen, WI Aging & Grading Cheese Amber Devine, Northland Labs Maple Leaf Cheese Greg Alberts, Kelley Supply Kayla Simon, Northland Labs Ken Natzke Bruce Workman, Edelweiss Cheese Mary Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Inc. Cabrina Cramer, Avatar Corporation Gary Grossen, UW Babcock Hall Phil Lindemann, Pine River Pre-Pack, Inc. Corie Grossen, Babcock Hall Dairy Plant Bob Ehrenberg, Taylor Cheese Ron Pagel, POWER Engineers, Inc Gary Grossen, Babcock Hall Dairy Plant Steve Krause Richard (Whitie) Wold, Retired from AMPI Lee Ullmer, Belgioioso Cheese Richard Wold Andy Johnson, Center for Dairy Research Kent Erickson, Saputo Cheese USA Don Otter, Center for Dairy Research Bryan Smith, Sargento SPECIAL THANKS TO: Joshua Vandenberg, Sargento Kevin Thome, Cheese Reporter Wisconsin Aging and Grading Cheese, Ken Jon Krein, Cheese Consultant Shawn Marcom, Sargento Foods and Cindy Neumeier, Randy Swensen, Kate Amanda Cherney Matczynski, Kyle Koll, Sargento Foods Inc. Neumeier Clarke, and Amanda Neumeier-Kist Cherney Microbiological Services, Ltd. Amanda Muehlbauer, Sargento Foods Inc. for accepting and sorting the contest entries Stefanie Rossner, Chr. Hansen Ken Kane, Sartori Company WOW Logistics, Howard Kamerer, Randy Gary Pieper, Chr. Hansen Inc. Pat Mugan, Sartori Company Radtke, Jamie Wally, and the warehouse Julie Winans, Chr. Hansen Inc. Kate Vergeront, Sartori Company team in Little Chute led by Jerry Wicker for Jeremy Huston, Chr. Hansen, Inc. Lisa Hall, Saxon Creamery storing the contest entries Tom Dahmen, Chula Vista Cheese Company Greg Delzer, Schreiber Foods - Green Bay Kim Wiesenberg and his team at Preferred Beth Crave, Bob Ehrenberg, Taylor Cheese Corp. Transit and Cold Storage for transporting the Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese Craig Linz, Tetra Pak Filtration Solutions entries for the Contest and the Conference. Steve Stettler, Decatur Dairy RJ Twiford, Tetra Pak Filtration Solutions Shaya Guilbault and George Stettler, Decatur George Stettler, Decatur Dairy Jessica Weber, Dairy and Kay Schmitz, Henning Cheese for Shaya Guilbault, Decatur Dairy Tillamook County Creamery Association Contest Headquarters assistance Ryan D. Slane, D&G Transportation, Inc. / Alan Hamann, V&V Supremo Foods Welcome Dairy for donating Contest supplies D&G Climate Control Warehousing Randy Swenson, Glenda Buholzer, Klondike Cheese; and Corie John Burger, DSM Food Specialties Wisconsin Aging and Grading Cheese Grossen for creating cheese sample displays Greg Juedes, Winona Foods Bruce Workman, Edelweiss Creamery at the contest Kim Schwartzmiller, Emmi Roth USA Kari Skibbie, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Matthew and Michael Czmowski for Contest Josh Hoesch, First Business Bank Katie Currier, filming and video production Jim Bleick, Graf Creamery Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Jeanne Carpenter, Wisconsin Cheese Pat Cardiff, Grande Cheese Company Matt Mathison, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Originals, for promoting and selling tickets to Drew Kordus, Great Lakes Cheese Ann Huenink Cheese Champion Por Vang, Great Lakes Cheese Craig Linz, Tetra Pak Inc. Sara Hill from Wisconsin Milk Marketing Wes Huibregtse, Board for coordinating the cheese and beer Great Lakes Cheese Plymouth (Retired) Michael Mann pairings at Cheese Champion David Johnson, Great Northern Corporation Kirsten Otter Kay Schmitz, Henning Cheese Steve Krause WMMB for providing the photographs of the winners at the U.S. Champions Banquet Steve Grams, Hilumz Lynn Thusius Peter Milfred, Hypred Tony Schulz Silver Lewis Cheese & Decatur Dairy for Richard Hallada, Hypred USA Anthony Seruis storing contest materials Jeff Klemp, International Machinery Exchange Laura Spielrogal Klondike Cheese for storing the winning Alberts Alberts, Kelley Supply, Inc. Gideon St. Aubin Contest cheeses Barb Wangerin Greg Alberts, Kelley Supply, Inc. Capital Equipment Handling, for donating two Daryl Spors, Kelley Supply, Inc. William Wangerin new pallet trucks used during the Contest Dan Posselt, Kickaas Cheese Bill Wendorff Hallie Wendorff Dave Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Company UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 453 Glenda Buholzer, Klondike Cheese Company 3HSSHUVDUHRXU 6SHFLDOW\

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