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U.S. Cheese Contest CHAMPIONS TEAM GUGGISBERG RANDY KRAHENBUHL GIANNI TOFFOLON Guggisberg Cheese Fair Oaks Dairy Products Belgioioso Cheese Millersburg, Ohio Fair Oaks, Indiana Denmark, Wisconsin 2019 2005 1991 MIKE MATUCHESKI MICHAEL GINGRICH LARRY MARTEN Sartori Company Uplands Cheese Company Cloverleaf Cheese Company Antigo, Wisconsin Dodgeville, Wisconsin Stanley, Wisconsin 2017 2003 1989 TEAM GUGGISBERG CHRISTINE FARRELL TODD JAKOBI Guggisberg Cheese Old Chatham Sheepherding Co. Sorrento Lactalis Old Chatham, New York Arpin, Wisconsin Millersburg, Ohio 2015 2001 1987 HOLLAND’S FAMILY CHEESE TEAM MILFRED SEVERSON FRITZ KOPP Klondike Cheese Company Deppeler Cheese Factory Holland’s Family Cheese Monroe, Wisconsin Monroe, Wisconsin Thorp, Wisconsin 2013 1999 1985 KATIE HEDRICH RICK RUFER JAMES MEIVES Kolb Lena Bresse Bleu Valley View Cheese Factory LaClare Farms Specialties Watertown, Wisconsin South Wayne, Wisconsin Chilton, Wisconsin 2011 1997 1983 JOHN GRIFFITHS CHARLES MALKASSIAN LOUIS LUYKX Vella Cheese Company of California Land O’ Lakes Sartori Foods Sonoma, California Kiel, Wisconsin Antigo, Wisconsin 2009 1995 1981 KEN ROOT MIKE BRENNENSTUHL Land O’ Lakes McCadam Cheese Company Denmark, Wisconsin Chateaugay, New York 2007 1993 2 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST WINNING RESULTS GUGGISBERG EYES SECOND SUCCESS A petite Baby Swiss wheel made by Guggisberg Cheese in 2019 UNITED STATES Millersburg, Ohio earned the title 2019 U.S. Champion Cheese in March, a mere four years after Guggisberg Premium Swiss GRAND CHAMPION topped the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest. Richard Guggisberg Marieke Gouda of Thorp, Wisconsin, also continued their winning ways, earning both & Team Guggisberg the First and Second Runner-Up positions this year, after besting the competition in Doughty Valley 2013.Yet, the frequency of their success had no tempering effect on cheesemakers Richard Guggisberg and Marieke Penterman, with both appearing awed and thrilled at Guggisberg Cheese the Contest’s crowning event, Cheese Champion. Millersburg, Ohio Perhaps that’s because they know exactly what a Championship Cheese Contest win can mean for a business. Guggisberg Cheese has enjoyed new national attention and Baby Swis Wheels strong sales since its 2015 win, enabling a major expansion of its operations. In the weeks since the 2019 competition, sales have jumped higher still. Champion Round Score: The spotlight has been good to Marieke Gouda, too. The company was featured on CBS 98.543 Sunday Morning as part of a Contest preview piece, and — in just the 48 hours after it aired — Marieke reported online sales greater than the total for all of 2018.We’re pleased to hear happy anecdotes like these from many Contest winners each year. 2019 FIRST RUNNER UP In 2019, dairy processors and manufacturers submitted a record 2,555 entries for Marieke Gouda Team Contest evaluation, and out of 116 classes, 72 different manufacturers and processors came away with gold. Winners include two-person operations and multi-national Marieke Gouda corporations. They hail from every part of the country, from New York to New Mexico. Some first-time competitors even earned gold. Thorp, WI That diversity of success speaks to the integrity of our judging panel, 60 of the Marieke Gouda Premium nation’s most respected cheese buyers, graders, and researchers. This group was led in 2019 by Chief Judge Jim Mueller, Chief Judge Emeriti Bill Schlinsog and Bob Champion Round Score: Aschebrock, and Assistant Chief Judges Tim Czmowski of Agropur, Inc., Stan Dietsche 98.419 of Oshkosh Cheese Sales & Storage, Josef Hubatschek of ALPMA, Mariana Marques de Almeida of Ms. J & Co., and Sandy Toney of Masters Gallery Foods. We thank them for sharing their expertise with us. 2019 SECOND RUNNER UP We also owe a debt of gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers who gave us their time and talent as part of the B-Team, led by Contest Chairperson Brian Eggebrecht Marieke Gouda Team of Welcome Dairy.We could not have stronger partners than our friends at WOW Marieke Gouda Logistics and Wisconsin Aging & Grading Cheese, who once again provided hundreds of hours of manpower and far more cubic feet of cold storage. Thorp, WI Klondike Cheese Company now houses the gold medal cheeses that will be auctioned Marieke Gouda Overjarige off at the 2019 Cheese Industry Conference, April 17–18 in Madison, Wisconsin, with proceeds to benefit industry educational programs. We appreciate this support. Champion Round Score: The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association is honored to host the U.S. Championship 98.39 Cheese Contest. Planning is already underway for our next competition, with a world of competitors coming to Wisconsin. Find out if you, too, can turn Contest gold into business success. Learn more at WorldChampionCheese.org. Complete Contest results are available at: JOHN UMHOEFER WCMA Executive Director WWW.USCHAMPIONCHEESE.ORG. UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 1 CONTEST RESULTS Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Team Wapsie, Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc., CLASS 1: CHEDDAR, MILD Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar ........... 97.80 Independence, IA, Cheddar Gomez Santiago, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, (0 TO 3 MONTHS) Falls, ID, Cheddar Mild Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, BEST OF CLASS Charles Henn, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar Cheddar Cheese David Lindgren, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Mild Cheddar ................................................................................ 98.55 Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Team 1, Agropur-Jerome, Jerome, ID, Mild Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Cheddar SECOND AWARD Team Meister 1, Meister Cheese Company, Dutt Zack, Glanbia Nutritionals, Twin Falls, Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, White Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar ID, Cheddar Mild Cheddar ............................................................................................................ 98.25 Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery DFA, Dairy Farmers of America, Chicago, IL, THIRD AWARD Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Mild Cheddar Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Le Sueur, Agropur, Le Sueur, MN, Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar .................................................. 98.20 NY, Cheddar Mild White Cheddar Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery AMPI-Blair Team 2, AMPI-Blair, Blair, WI, NY, Cheddar Mild Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Mild Cheddar ...................................................................................... 98.15 Bongards Perham A, Bongards, Perham, MN, Craythorn Whitney, Glanbia Nutritioanals, Richard Lechner, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Cheddar Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Mild Granton, WI, Mild Cheddar............................................ 98.15 Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar MD, Cheddar Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar ................................ 98.10 Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Rochester Team 1, AMPI, Rochester, MN, Mild Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cheese Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar ........... 98.10 David Meyer, Lynn Dairy, Inc, Granton, WI, Team SWC, Southwest Cheese LLC, Clovis, Team Jim Falls, AMPI, Jim Falls, WI, Mild Cheddar NY, Cheddar Mild Colored Cheddar ............................................................................. 98.05 Andy Follen, Lynn Dairy, Inc., Granton, WI, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Higgins Shawnie, Glanbia Nutritionals, Mild Cheddar Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Twin Falls, ID, Cheddar Mild ........................................ 98.00 AMPI-Blair Team 1, AMPI-Blair, Blair, WI, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Team Chateaugay, McCadam Cheese, Mild Cheddar Cabot, VT, Mild Cheddar Chateaugay, NY, Mild Cheddar ................................ 97.80 Partner Sponsors UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST 2 UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP CHEESE CONTEST Team Meister 3, Meister Cheese Company, Team Cabot, Cabot Creamery DFA, Dairy Farmers of America, Chicago, IL, Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Medium Medium Cheddar Cheese Team Meister 4, Meister Cheese Company, Cheddar .................................................................................................... 97.35 Kiel Production Team, Land O Lakes, Inc., Muscoda, WI, Mild Cheddar Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery kiel, WI, Medium Cheddar Matt Burrington, Associated Milk Producers, Cooperative, Cabot, VT, Medium Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook Inc, Sanborn, IA, Cheddar Cheddar .................................................................................................... 97.25 Chedda Terry Lensmire, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Team Meister 2, Meister Cheese Company, Team Middlebury, Cabot Creamery Cheddar Cheese Muscoda, WI, Medium Cheddar Cooperative, Middlebury, VT, Medium Bongards Perham B, Bongards, Perham, MN, Kiel Cheesemakers, Land O Lakes, Inc., Kiel, Cheddar Cheddar WI, Medium Cheddar Pennland Pure, Pennland Pure, Hancock, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Black Creek, Saputo Cheese USA Inc., MD, Cheddar Blackfoot, ID, Cheddar Milwaukee, WI, 6 Month Cheddar Bongards Perham A, Bongards, Perham, MN, Pineland Farms Dairy, Pineland Farms Dairy, Tillamook, TCCA, Tillamook, OR, Tillamook 40# Cheddar Bangor, ME, Cheddar Cheddar Dan Stearns, Agropur, Weyauwega, WI, Glanbia Blackfoot, Glanbia Foods Blackfoot, Maksoc Mirjana,