Specialist Cheesemakers Association

Patron's Award for Best Artisan Cheese

The SCA are pleased to announce a new Award - The Patron’s Award for the Best Artisan Cheese of the Year  which will give due recognition to the UK’s finest artisan cheeses and the cheesemakers that work hard to produce them.  The Award is kindly donated by our Patron His Majesty King Charles III and it is open to all SCA members.

The following terms and conditions apply:

  • The cheese must be an artisan cheese (not necessarily made with raw milk).

  • The cheese must be made in the UK or Ireland.

  • SCA members may only nominate one cheese and may not nominate their own cheeses.

A stack of cheeses

Patron's Award for the Best Artisan Cheese Winners:

Cheese: Cheshire

Cheesemaker: Applebys Dairy

Cheese: Sinodun Hill

Cheesemaker: Norton & Yarrow

Cheese: Brightwell Ash

Cheesemaker: Norton & Yarrow

Cheese: Ashcombe

Cheesemaker: David Jowett, Kingstone Dairy

Cheese: Cashel Blue

Cheesemaker: Sarah Forno, Cashel Farmhouse Cheesemakers

Cancelled due to Covid restrictions

Cheese: Tunworth

Cheesemaker: Stacey Hedges, Charlotte Spruce, Hampshire Cheese