Hungarian cheese amongst the world’s best

Another Hungarian town was put on the world’s great cheese map last weekend.

In the town of Etyek in Fejér County a soft cheese of such quality is made from goat milk that it not only stood its ground but ended up amongst the best at the world’s most prestigious cheese championship, the World Cheese Awards on the 18^th of October in Bergamo, Italy – HelloVidék found out.

The recently established Goat Cheese Manufactory of Etyek entered its first international cheese competition to have its cheese put to the test in an international setting and to have it qualified by the most prestigious key organization in the business. Its debut went well, since their soft cheese marketed by the name of Etyeki Hófehér (Etyek Snow White) which is made from goat milk and matured with white noble mold received a Super Gold Award as the winner of its category.

Therefore it is now amongst the world’s 84 best cheeses.

It was only the icing on the cake that they received the special award for “The Best Central & Eastern European Cheese of the Championship”. 3804 samples from 42 countries from the world’s 6 continents were registered to the most prestigious international assembly of the cheese business.

The winner cheese was made by one of the owners of the manufactory, Oktávia Vidáné Kondor who incidentally has a law degree. There is nearly a decade worth of developing behind the acknowledgment earned in Italy since besides learning from Hungarian cheese makers, Oktávia acquired the tricks of this business from masters in Switzerland and Austria over recent years.