The Grand Cinchos de Oro, the most important award given by the Cincho Awards, was presented this year to “Carlos Navas 10 months”, of the company Quesos Navas SL in the town of Peñaranda de Bracamonte in Salamanca; ‘Pajarete Cheeses’, from Cadiz Lopicomo, and “Danibert”, by Daniberto SAT from Lugo.
Meanwhile, the Award for the best artisanal cheese of Castilla y León It was the Ahumado Campoveja de Herederos of Félix Sanz, a company from the town of Serrada in Valladolid, while the Best sheep cheese in Spain went to the Pata de Mulo Curado Los Payuelos, from Artesanos de Luna SL, located in the municipality of León, Benavides de Órbigo.
As a novelty for this edition, the prize for Best organic cheesewho finally came across the cheese ‘Jaspe’, from Quesos Lavega Eco, produced in Moslares de la Vega (Palencia). An international competition that aims to recognize the cheese. best cheeses in the world, which gathered in total 1,200 samples from 16 countries different and which this year included two new categories such as the Cinchos de Honor.
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In the case of the reward for Professional career The chosen one was Antonio Martín Castro, founder of the family business Entrepreneursdedicated to the manufacture of cheese and dairy products. And in the second, called Special Mention, the jury considered it appropriate to divide it into two people: José Luis Galván, Director of the Cincho Awards from its creation until 2022, and Luis Rodriguez, head of the ITACyL Milk Technology Station since 2010 and until his death in 2018.
The other new category was called Milk qualityin order to recognize the work of breeders. The winners were Juan and Félix Díaz Pérezin goats; the cooperative society Fersal, in beef, and Guzmán TCA, in sheep meat.
Finally, it should be noted that 104 gold and silver belts which are divided according to different presentation forms (fresh, soft, semi-hard or hard, blue and spreadable) or characteristics (milk-producing animal species, heat treatment, coagulation process or degree of maturation), Castilla y León won 37 percent of the gold and 13 percent silver.
The prices, which were determined by data provided by a jury of more than 60 people of ten nationalities to a computer application after the corresponding blind tastings, they recognize the two best in each of the categories stipulated in the regulations based on different forms of presentation or characteristics, reports Ical.
The Vice-Minister of Community Agrarian Policy and Rural DevelopmentJorge Llorenteaccompanied by the director of the Agrarian Technological Institute of Castilla y León (ITACyL), Rafael Sáez, and the technical director of the competition, David Delgado, were in charge of transmitting the list of winners to the Royal Monastery of San Zoilo, in Carrion de los Comtes.
