Our 2023 Great Yorkshire Show
After sharing about the Great Yorkshire Show last week It occurred to me that you may want to find out a little more about the winners.
Our cheeses did brilliantly at the Great Yorkshire Cheese & Dairy Show this year, we were so delighted! 3 Trophies and 17 awards in total!
Trophy Wins
🏆 Mrs Bell's Blue - Champion Yorkshire Product
🏆 Mrs Bell's Blue - Champion Blue Cheese
🏆 Bluemin White - Champion Speciality Cheese
Class Wins
🧀 Yorkshire Blue - Gold, Silver (Consumer Choice)
🧀 Buffalo Blue - Gold, Gold and Silver
🧀 Mrs Bell's Blue - Gold, Silver and Bronze
🧀 Harrogate Blue - Gold, Silver & Bronze (Consumer Choice)
🧀 Bluemin White - Gold
🧀 Northern Blue - Silver
And below I’ve included all the award-winners, and a description of each cheese. If you usually tend to stick to one particular cheese of ours, this might be a good opportunity to go off piste and try something new!
To find your local stockist of our award-winning cheeses, please use our handy stockists finder by clicking here.
Creamy, sweet and mild, Yorkshire Blue is an ideal introduction to blue cheese. With age, the flavour deepens and becomes more complex without compromising the mild creaminess that’s helped make it a national favourite.
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This did brilliantly at the show winning CHAMPION BLUE CHEESE and CHAMPION YORKSHIRE PRODUCT too. 🌟🌟
Mrs Bell's Blue is made from the finest quality sheep milk. We produce in small vats and after the first 24 hours of turning and formation, we hand salt each cheese. Each batch is then matured for a minimum of 10 weeks. This achieves the complex blue flavour that’s comparable to Roquefort but creamier and mellower.
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This beauty won CHAMPION SPECIALITY CHEESE too at the show (along with a Gold Medal).🌟
Bluemin White is made in small truckles and ripened with great care in our carefully managed ripening stores. Importantly, they're not spiked so they have no blue vein, but they develop a velvety blue rind and ripens gently from the outside in. This breaks down the body of the cheese to an unctuous heaven.
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A powerhouse blue cheese with serious credentials. Deliciously creamy and luxuriously more-ish, this cheese is a strong arm to success. Northern Blue was launched in 2019 as the more powerful and more mature brother to Yorkshire Blue. Aged for a minimum of 10 weeks, we use a stronger strain of Penicillium Roquefort to achieve a more robust blue flavour.
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Buffalo Blue delivers a well-balanced blue flavour, which is complimented with a creamy yet light, nearing cleansing, effect on the palate. It's an extremely special cheese and best tasted yourself to understand its finest qualities. We are so glad to have this one back in the fold and sure you'll love it as much as we do.
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