11th December 2023 Awards / CheeseThe New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards is calling for entries for 2024.
7th September 2023 Cheese / Plant-basedDr Debashree Roy from the Riddet Institute at Massey University has won the Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand competition.
25th July 2023 Awards / CheeseThe Supreme Winner of the third annual Vegan Society Vegan Cheese Awards was Sonntag’s Cumin Gouda Style.
19th July 2023 CheeseNew Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association is launching the fourth year of its Top NZ Cheese Store accreditation programme.
3rd July 2023 Cheese / Stats NZCheese exports rose $763m or 35% in the 12 months to May 2023, compared with the previous year reaching $3bn, according to Stats NZ.
30th June 2023 Awards / CheeseRegistrations are now open for the third annual Vegan Society Cheese Awards.
5th May 2023 Awards / CheeseCartwheel Creamery took home three coveted trophies from the 20th annual NZ Champion of Cheese Awards in Hamilton.
20th April 2023 Cheese / EventsNew Zealand Cheese Festival is returning to Blenheim to tie in with NZ Cheese Month.
28th March 2023 Awards / CheeseA total of 162 cheeses have received medals in this year’s NZ Champions of Cheese Awards.
1st March 2023 Awards / CheeseJudging will take place this weekend for the 20th annual NZ Champions of Cheese Awards.
16th December 2022 Awards / CheeseEntry is open for the 2023 NZ Champions of Cheese Awards, which will celebrate 20 years next year.
9th August 2022 Awards / CheeseStudents and hobby cheesemakers are invited to the revamped Curds & Whey Amateur Cheesemaker Award which is part of the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards.
5th July 2022 Awards / CheeseRegistrations are now open for the annual Vegan Society Cheese Awards.
1st July 2022 Awards / CheeseA total of 29 trophies were doled out at the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards in Hamilton last night.
21st June 2022 Cheese / TradeNew Zealand cheesemakers have called on the government not to give in to the “demands of Eurocrats” which would strip them of the right to use common description terms like Feta, Parmesan, and Gruyere, as part of EU-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement negotiations.
4th April 2022 Awards / CheeseThe New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association has announced 254 medal winners in the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards 2022.
11th February 2022 Awards / CheeseEntries close today for this year’s Champions of Cheese Awards.
7th December 2021 Awards / CheeseA new award recognising and promoting sustainability has been created as part of the 2022 New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards.
16th November 2021 Cheese / WaimataThe country’s largest independent cheese maker has been forced to end a retail product it has been making for 27 years.
29th October 2021 Angel Food / CheeseThe company is exploring a licensing deal as it looks to leverage New Zealand’s global reputation for dairy products.
3rd September 2021 Cheese / Covid-19Otago cheese producer Whitestone has made an offer to provide free cheese to healthcare professionals in a bid to encourage staff to man a proposed drive-through Covid-19 vaccination centre in Oamaru.
31st May 2021 CheeseOamaru’s Whitestone Cheese has opened its cheese bar in Auckland’s Viaduct.
25th May 2021 CheeseThe award-winning specialist cheese producer is looking to buy its own farm and factory.
20th May 2021 Cheese / RecallSurti Indian Samosa Limited is recalling a specific batch of Surti brand Paneer due to the possible presence of E. coli.
7th May 2021 CheeseAwards given after judging of more than 310 cheeses entered in annual competition.
5th May 2021 CheeseOamaru-based artisan cheese producer Whitestone Cheese is building on their domestic market, shifting efforts from export markets.
29th April 2021 CheeseNew Zealand cheesemakers are up in arms over the European Commission’s continuing campaign to restrict the use of common names in international cheesemaking, with halloumi the latest target.
16th March 2021 Awards / CheeseThe New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association has announced 265 medal winners in the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards 2021.
17th February 2021 Awards / CheeseJudging of the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards 2021 will go ahead in Hamilton this weekend after Auckland’s snap Covid-19 alert level 3 lockdown.
2nd December 2020 CheeseEntries are now open for the 19th annual New Zealand Champions of Cheese Awards.
3rd November 2020 Cheese / TeaZealong Tea Estate and Meyer Cheese have created a so-called world first tea-infused cheese.
1st October 2020 CheeseThe New Zealand cheese industry has seen record supermarket sales for much of 2020, despite the varying impacts of Covid-19.
