There is no cheese grater than the cloth-bound farmhouse cheddar produced by Tullow’s big cheese Tom Burgess, which was declared Gouda-nuff to Brie the best at the Irish Cheese Awards which took place in Co Cork on Wednesday night.
Mr Burgess accepted the Supreme Champion award for his Mount Leinster Cheddar with some relish in Ballymaloe almost 10 years after he got into the business after growing frustrated with the EU’s dairy quota system.
Looking to use his degree in agricultural science (as well as the milk from his herd of 130 cows) in a different way, he decided to become a cheese maker. “I loved eating cheese so it seemed like the only route to take,” he told The Irish Times the morning after his big win.
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