san-sebastian-world-cheese-awardA total of 48 Canarian cheeses of 97 participating in this year's contest are awarded in the contest held in San Sebastián.

The organizing committee of the World Cheese Awards 2016 He has published on its Web page the results of this edition of this event, held in San Sebastian and in which they have been awarded a total of 48 Canarian cheeses of 97 They are participating in this year's contest. These distinctions are divided into two superoros, 11 golds, 19 silvers, and 16 bronzes.

The cheeses awarded Superoro were Bodega Sheep Finca Uga, Lanzarote, and Selectum cured paprika, Cattlemen Group Fuerteventura.

Golds were awarded to Alegranza and dipped in paprika Finca de Uga (Lanzarote); the Tofio cured paprika Cattlemen Group Fuerteventura; Goat cheese cured stale crusted gofio Flor de Güímar (Tenerife); Cheese Lomo Gallego Fresh Cheese Lomo Gallego (Gran Canaria); cheese curds mixture of goat, cow and sheep Fresh Cheese Lomo Gallego (Gran Canaria); Hard cheese mix goat and sheep cheese factory Artisan Guedes (Gran Canaria); Hard cheese mix goat and sheep cheeses Roque Large (Gran Canaria); Maxorata cured paprika and Maxorata semicurado paprika Cattlemen Group Fuerteventura; and Cheese Caves (La Palma).

These awards you can sum the silver medals, who recognized the quality of fresh cheese Cooperative Society Cheese Guriamen (Fuerteventura), fresh Maxorata, the Maxorata semicurado paprika, Maxorata cured paprika and Tofio semicurado paprika, four of Ranchers Group Fuerteventura; Pink, Association Cheese Lanzarote; semicurado Pajonales Goat Cheese Bolaños (Gran Canaria); El Faro cured, Tinache curado, Guatisea cured and Granja San Roque Curado, Association Cheese Lanzarote; Sheep cheese artisanal cheese factory Guedes (Gran Canaria); Sheep cheese Hoya's Cavadero (Gran Canaria); Bodega goat and sheep Finca de Uga (Lanzarote); curing goat Caprican (Gran Canaria); Cheese cured Gambuesa (Fuerteventura); Cheese Caves (La Palma); Cheese aged mixture of goat and cow, and old cheese mixture Montesdeoca (Tenerife).

The bronzes went to semicurado Flower of Light, semicurado Mountain Haria and La Flor de Teguise cured, Association Cheese Lanzarote; Curds Goat Cheese Cave Step (Gran Canaria); cured goat cheese Roque Large (Gran Canaria); Cheese smoked curds goat Biogranja Montesdeoca (Tenerife); Hard cheese mixture Valsequillo (Gran Canaria); ripened cheese mix cow, Goat and sheep Finca Fuentemorales (Gran Canaria); hard Fagagesto Cheese Bolaños (Gran Canaria); curds sheep and goat Roque Large (Gran Canaria); curing mixture of goat and sheep cheeses Angelita (Gran Canaria), cheese farmhouse Caideros (Gran Canaria); almogrote The Queen of Distributions and almogrotes Queen( Tenerife); cream Tofio goat cheese, Cattlemen Group Fuerteventura; and the red and green almogrotes Montesdeoca (Tenerife).

The Cabildo de Gran Canaria sent contest 29 cheese, of those who 14 They have been recognized in the form of medals. In the previous edition, held in Birmingham, four cheeses of Gran Canaria got honorable mention, with a gold medal, two silver and one bronze, Meanwhile in 2014 medals obtained were six in 2013, seven.

The city of San Sebastián hosted the this year's edition of the international competition World Cheese Awards (WCA), in which the jury decided to award the prize for the best cheese in the world with a production of Norwegian origin.