Spain to host World Cheese Awards
The Guild of Fine Food has announced that the World Cheese Awards will be held in Oviedo, Spain, on Wednesday, 4 November, as part of the Asturias Paraíso Natural International Cheese Festival 2020. Run by the Instituto del Queso, the 33rd edition of the competition will headline a four-day festival dedicated to cheese at the city’s Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos.
Taking place on the first day of the International Cheese Festival, the WCA judging will signal the start of a packed program of events for consumers and trade visitors, including an exhibition, a cheese market, a scientific cheese congress, experimental tasting sessions, an Asturian Agriculture Forum, tours of the WCA judging area and a gastro cheese comedy line-up. The WCA will feature judges from over 30 different countries, cheese from six continents and attendees from all over the world.
“It gives me great pleasure to announce Oviedo as the host city for WCA 2020, following an extremely impressive bid from the Principality of Asturias, the City Council of Oviedo and the Instituto del Queso. We received interest from potential host cities across the world, but the opportunity to bring WCA to Asturias was too good to miss, not least due to the region’s whole-hearted commitment to its food culture. With up to 4000 cheeses from over 40 different countries expected at WCA 2020, the competition will be bringing a global celebration of cheese to Oviedo,” said John Farrand, Managing Director of the Guild of Fine Food.
The WCA will take place on Wednesday, 4 November 2020, as part of the International Cheese Festival, at the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos in Oviedo, Spain.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity to have a date set in the world calendar of gastronomy and cheese. It will be a meeting point to speak about science, health and the food of the future. Indeed, the festival wants to build a space where technology, traditional artisan cheesemakers and science-based novel biotechnological processes will align together to work towards new business models,” said Luisa Villegas, Managing Director of Instituto del Queso.
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