We are excited to announce that our newly released blended sheep & cow milk blue cheese was garnered a Bronze at the World Cheese Awards in the Canary Islands, last week. With more than 2400 entries, 150 judges and 34 countries having entered, it is an honor to receive an award from this most prestigious organization awarding cheese makers for over two decades.
Vaquero Blue was loosely modeled after a Spanish cheese made by a master cheese maker I met through the folks at VIAC. I discussed my recipe with him in private, as ironically it was very similar-except that it was solely sheep milk at that time- and then tweaked it a bit and made it a blend! Who knew it could award at WCA 2009?! Still a bit under development, what a great start.
This one gets its name to pay homage to the Vaqueros, Spanish cowboys, who migrated to our ranch over 160 years ago. Spanish style cheese. Spanish name. First award in Spain. Hola Vaqueros!
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