Britains Best Artisan Cheese
Hebden Goat from Tenacres Cheese
Hebden Goat from Tenacres Cheese has been crowned Supreme Champion at the prestigious Artisan Cheese Awards.
The Cheese was also Winner of the Best Soft Cheese Class and Winner of the Farmhouse Cheese Class.
The dairy is based in Hebden Bridge a market town in the Upper Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, Run by just Gillian Clough herself, the dairy consists of a small herd of 14 goats.
Hebden Goat is a lactic cheese made from raw goats milk which is aged for around 4 weeks. The small round ten cm high cylinders of cheese.
The cheese is made from unpasteurised goats milk which is aged for around 4 weeks and has a wrinkled creamy coloured appearance.
It has a melt in the mouth smoothness with a flavour that develops and then lingers, light earthy mushroomy flavours with no hint of bitterness.
Results – Main Awards
| Trophy | Cheese | Cheesemaker |
| Supreme Champion | Hebden Goat | Tenacres Cheese |
| Reserve Champion | Pevensey Blue | Pevensey Cheese Company |
| Best Small Producer | Cote Hill Snowdrop | Cote Hill Farm |
| Best Micro Producer | Sinodum Hill | Norton & Yarrow Cheese |
| Best English | Yorkshire Pecorino Fresco | Yorkshire Pecorino Cheese Ltd |
| Best Irish Cheese | Carrigaline Truffle Cheese | Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese |
| Best Scottish | Aged Gouda | Connage Highland Dairy |
| Best Welsh Cheese | Brefu Bach | Cosyn Cymru |
| Best Stilton | Stilton | Long Clawson |
Results – Classes
| Class | Class Description | Trophy | Cheese | Cheesemaker |
| 1 | Fresh | Class Winner | Glaston Tile | White Lake Cheese |
| 2 | Soft | Class Winner | Hebden Goat | Tenacres Cheese |
| 3 | Semi-Soft | Class Winner | Yorkshire Pecorino Fresco | Yorkshire Pecorino Cheese Ltd |
| 4 | Hard | Class Winner | Poacher 50 | Lincolnshire Poacher |
| 5 | Blue | Class Winner | Pevensey Blue | Pevensey Cheese Company |
| 6 | Cow | Class Winner | Mrs Kirkhams Mild Creamy Lancs | Mrs Kirkham’s Lancashire Cheese |
| 7 | Sheep | Class Winner | Seven Sisters w Hebridean seaweed | High Weald Dairy |
| 8 | Goat | Class Winner | Sinodun Hill | Norton & Yarrow Cheese |
| 9 | Vegetarian | Class Winner | Wild Garlic Yarg | Lynher Daries Cheese Company Ltd |
| 10 | Organic | Class Winner | Aged Gouda | Connage Highland Dairy |
| 11 | Raw Milk | Class Winner | Lincolnshire Poacher | Lincolnshire Poacher |
| 12 | Farmhouse | Class Winner | Hebden Goat | Tenacres Cheese |
| 13 | Raw Milk Farmhouse | Class Winner | Cote Hill Snowdrop | Cote Hill Farm |
| 14 | Territorial | Class Winner | Sparkenhoe Red Leicester | Leicestershire Handmade Cheese Co |
| 15 | PFN | Class Winner | Dovedale Blue PDO | Hartington Creamery |
| 16 | New Cheese | Class Winner | Cote Hill Snowdrop | Cote Hill Farm |
| 17 | Washed Rind | Class Winner | Carrig Bru | Sheridans Cheesemongers |
| 18 | Smoked | Class Winner | Lyburn Smoked | Lyburn Farmhouse Cheesemakers |
| 19 | Flavoured | Class Winner | Carrigaline Truffle Cheese | Carrigaline Farmhouse Cheese |
Dr Matthew O’Callaghan OBE
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