 | 16/03/2006
Deeside cheese company scoops gold medal awards
The recently established Craigmyle Cheese Company of Torphins has scooped two gold awards at this year’s `foodie oscars’, the Grampian Food Forum Innovation Awards, announced to a 300 strong audience at The Marcliffe at Pitfodels last night.
The Craigmyle Cheese Company’s popular organic`Wummle’ camembert style cheese beat off stiff competition from a range of diverse quality products to achieve first place in both the retail product sector and the food service category for businesses with under 25 employees. Products were judged by a panel of food experts chaired by Bruno Deschamps, chairman of one the UK’s largest catering companies, Brakes and included Julian Hunt, editor of The Grocer magazine, Claire Smith, sales director of CJ Lang and Son Ltd and Ceri Ritchie, group marketing manager of the Scottish Agricultural College.
Owners of The Craigmyle Cheese Company, husband and wife team, Liz and Neil Marchant were thrilled with their success so early in the company’s life; Liz commented; “We are completely over the moon to have received not one but two gold awards in the first food awards that we have ever entered. There were some really wonderful products from all over Aberdeenshire showcased during the awards ceremony and the fact that the judges were unanimous in their decision to choose Wummle as the winner is simply fantastic! We have put passion and sheer hard work into creating and producing this cheese and this makes it all worthwhile. In addition we have just found out that we are a finalist in the Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise so it is an exciting time for the business right now”
Wummle is now being stocked by delicatessens, speciality food shops, restaurants and hotels all over Aberdeenshire and as far afield as Orkney, Edinburgh and England. The cheese is a soft, mould-ripened variety similar to a Camembert and is made from unpasteurised, organic milk from Aberdeenshire. The name is a Doric word meaning `to turn’ which is what cheesemakers do as they ripen this type of cheese. Wummle comes in two sizes Muckle Wummle and Wee Wummle.
From its small Creamery in Torphins, the Craigmyle Cheese Company also produces two other cheeses; Clachnaben which is a mild crumbly and Morven which is a Bel Paese texture. |  | |
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