Sartori Cheese Presented Thirteen Medals At 2012 World Cheese Awards

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sartori Cheese was awarded thirteen medals at the 2012 World Cheese Awards held in the UK this week.  The World Cheese Awards is a premier and highly competitive worldwide competition – with cheese from 30 countries and a record 2,781 entries this year. 

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Sartori's top finish came from its Limited Edition Cognac BellaVitano ^® cheese which was awarded a Super Gold Medal – one of the select few cheeses advancing to the final round of judging.  In 2011 Cognac BellaVitano took 3 ^rd place overall – the highest ranking ever for a cheese from the United States.  In this year's competition, Sartori SarVecchio ^® Parmesan took home another first place gold medal, the 10 ^th internationally recognized accolade for this cheese in just the past two years and its 22 ^nd award in the past five years.  In addition to the Gold Medal finishes, Sartori was awarded six silver medals and five bronze medals.  "It is a tremendous honor to earn even one medal at an international competition like this and earning thirteen across a broad spectrum of our cheese is really something special," says third generation owner, Jim Sartori. 

"People often ask me what the secret is," continues Sartori. "The first thing I tell them is that it all starts on the farm; we are blessed to have wonderful family-owned patron dairy farms that provide us the highest quality supply of fresh rBST-free milk."  Many of Sartori's patron dairy farmers are also multi-generation operations and have been selling milk to Sartori since the beginning in 1939.  The farms are all within a close radius of the plant, enabling the company to convert the milk to cheese very quickly.

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