Australian Specialist Cheesemakers' Association

Has anyone else noticed that Australian artisan cheesemakers have been kicking big goals and winning big awards in recent times! A big shout out to all the winners of the 2025 World Cheese Awards held recently in Switzerland. Prom Country Cheese won a Super Gold medal for their Inverloch Blue. Long Paddock Cheese won a silver medal for Driftwood. Woodside Cheese Wrights won three medals - a silver for Kris Lloyd Artisan Buffalo Marinated Cheese, and for Tom Tomme and a bronze for Kris Lloyd Artisan Flower Power. Bruny Island Cheese Co. & Bruny Island Beer Co. also won two bronze medals for 1792 and Raw Tom. Congratulations all!! You are all legends!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Huge congratulations to Prom Country Cheese for their big win at the Australian Grand Dairy Awards....AND for winning a Super Gold at the World Cheese Awards for Inverloch Blue. Congratulations to the whole team! Legends!!! 🏆🏆🥇

Andrew Miller from Stock & Land has written a great article about the Long Paddock Cheese big wins in France this week. Read all about it!

The Castlemaine producers whose cheese has been recognised on the world stage The company won the gold medal at the world's premier cheese event.

HUGE news in cheese world this week with the legends at Long Paddock Cheese winning some big awards in France. Long Paddock Cheese has won a GOLD medal at the prestigious Mondial du Fromage competition in Tours, France for their Banksia cheese! They have also earned a BRONZE medal for their Bluestone, a Stilton-style blue! They were the only Aussie cheesemaker to be recognized this year. CONGRATULATIONS!!!! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

So much goes in to making exceptional quality Australian artisan cheese. Our Australian producers are winning awards all over the place and producing fantastic cheeses...but they need support. The message ...."if you really love Australian cheese, buy Australian cheese. It’s the best – and most delicious – way you can help guarantee its survival".

Australia's best artisan cheeses are vanishing – here’s how we can save them In the wake of Section28’s shock closure, we take a look at the challenges currently being faced by the Australian cheese industry.

Congratulations to the talented team at Prom Country Cheese for your recent wins 🥇🥇🥇

In case you missed it...here is a summary of the winners from the 2025 Dairy Awards. Big congrats to Lilyarra Artisan Cheeses in SA, who impressed judges with their Goat Curd with Fresh Dill, winning the Real Dairy Australia Trophy, Champion Cheese from a Small-Scale Dairy Producer, and the Say Cheese Trophy for Champion SA Manufactured Cheese. The same product was also named Most Outstanding Non-Bovine Exhibit. 🏆🏆🏆🏆

Love cheese? Here's all the winners from the 2025 Dairy Awards The 2025 Dairy Awards celebrated Australia’s dairy industry, with standout wins for South Australian producers.