World Cheese Awards 2010

How to enter your cheese

Entry brochure | Class list | Submitting your entry

UK entries

UK entry form | Specialist Cheesemakers Association entry form

You can enter by downloading the entry form and class list above or by entering online. Please read the information about submitting your entry.

We have introduced a special class this year which is open to any member of the Specialist Cheesemakers Association. Members are restricted to enter only one cheese in this class at a discounted entry fee of £10.00.

Rest of World entries

Cheese companies outside of the UK must enter online. If for any reason you are unable to do this please contact us on + 44 (0) 1963 824464. Click the online entry button above. Download information about submitting your entry to get information on where and when to send your cheeses.

Europe we have three consolidation points, one in Ireland, France and Spain. Please download the information about submitting your entry.

We have agents in certain countries that will help you through the entry process:

USA & Canada enter online but you do not pay for your entry through World Pay. You will be contacted by Commodity Freight in New York about delivery and payment. Cost of entry US$42 per cheese.

For important shipping information from the USA click here.

South Africa enter online but you do not pay for your entry through World Pay. You will be contacted by Agri-Expo in South Africa about delivery and payment.

Australia information to follow. We can offer help and advice in submitting your cheeses from all corners of the globe. Please contact John Farrand or telephone 00 44 (0) 1963 824464 for more details

Please do not submit your cheese until you have received full delivery instructions from World Cheese Awards administration

The Awards

For over 20 years the World Cheese Awards has been bringing together buyers and sellers from the dairy industry worldwide. It's the largest cheese competition in the world, attracting over 2,500 entries in 2009 from 34 countries and judged by over 150 expert buyers from every corner of the globe. It takes an entire day to judge, with a trade lunch thrown in, making this a place to do real business too.

The 2010 Awards will take place at the UK's largest consumer food exhibition, the BBC Good Food Show, which will be held at the NEC Birmingham from November 24-28.

It promises to be the biggest and most cosmopolitan cheese festival ever staged in the UK, with almost 100,000 consumers tasting cheese after the international panel of experts have completed their judging.

How it works

The anticipated 3,000 cheese entries will be staged in a massive 1,000m² area within the main BBC Good Food Show and judging will take place on the opening day, November 24, in front of a live consumer audience. Our 150 experts from around the world will work in teams of four, identifying medal-winning cheeses through the morning. Each gold-winning cheese will then be judged a second time by a different jury and by the time the judges disappear for a well-earned lunch, we will know the top 40 cheeses in the world.

After lunch a Supreme Jury of 12 experts, representing the four corners of the globe, will assemble in front of a packed consumer and trade audience to choose the World Champion 2010. There’s even talk of national radio following the final stages.

Have a look at what happened in 2009 or browse the World Cheese Awards 2009 gallery

Ensure you are on our entry form mailing list. Contact Charlie Westcar.

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