Australian Master Cheesemaker and Cheese Grader Neil Willman has been appointed Master Judge for the 2008 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards. Willman is Australia’s only fulltime cheese educator and trainer and has, for 26 years, been responsible for all the cheese education and training programmes at Gilbert Chandler College, Australia’s only dedicated dairy college. […]

A herd of just 20 goats has produced New Zealand’s finest cheese. Crescent Dairy Goats Old Gold was named Saint Clair Champion of Champions Cheese at the Cuisine NZ Champion Cheese Awards gala dinner held in Auckland this evening (March 6). Jan and John Walter’s goats in Albany, on Auckland’s North Shore, “keep city hours”, […]

The news that Frank Martley died suddenly on 11th January came as a great shock to all who knew and worked with him over the years. Frank was passionate about cheese, its microbiology and its manufacture. He was a tenacious problem-solver who never let an issue go unanswered. He inspired those he worked with and […]

The 2007 Cuisine NZ Champion Cheese Awards goes public with CheeseFest, an exciting new event held at The Floating Pavilion, Auckland from 5 – 7.30pm on Wednesday March 7th 2007. For a modest fee, CheeseFest attendees will be able to sample entries to the 2007 Cuisine NZ Champions of Cheese Awards accompanied by a glass […]

New Zealand’s Big Cheese hunt is on again, and this time the public will get a taste of the action. Entries are now open for the 2007 Cuisine NZ Champion Cheese Awards, which will be bigger, better and even earlier than ever before. Organisers are expecting more than 500 New Zealand cheeses to be entered […]