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‘Three Cheeses on, We Could Still Taste It’: Swiss Gruyère Crowned the World’s Best Cheese
An aged Swiss Gruyère from Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen won after scoring highest among 5,244 cheeses judged by 265 experts in a blind tasting.
- On Thursday, the World Cheese Awards in Bern anointed an aged Swiss Gruyère as the best cheese for 2025, with Bergkäserei Vorderfultigen championed by Perry Wakeman of Rennet & Rind.
- Shortly before 10 a.m., blind tasting teams stripped cheeses of labels and awarded points for appearance, smell, taste, texture and mouthfeel, advancing 'super gold' selections to a final tasting.
- An army of 265 cheese experts judged 5,244 cheeses from 46 countries at Bern's Festhalle, arranged across 110 rows, with each judge tasting at least 40 cheeses in two- or three-person teams.
- Past winners' sales spikes aside, the dairy said production increases are unlikely to protect the Gruyère market, and organisers said leftover cheese would be recycled into energy.
- Amid health and import hurdles, judges signed waivers under the contest's special import license while many rivals navigated tricky import legislation and a US shutdown; organisers acknowledge a host-country 'home advantage' though locals do not always win, and the contest will move to Córdoba, Spain.
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On Thursday, Swiss cheese Gruyère, named after the town of Gruyères, was voted the world's best cheese for 2025, beating out more than 5,000 competitors from 46 countries.
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Among 5244 cheeses from 46 countries, the best cheese has been selected – and a Swiss cheese has been won.
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It is a Swiss cheese that received the highest prize at the last World Cheese Awards, held in Switzerland.
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InsideNoVA.comSwiss Gruyere crowned world cheese champ
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This cheese comes from the mountain cheese factory Vorderfultigen, in German-speaking Switzerland, specializing in the production of AOP gruyère.
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