Meet Brazil's most awarded cheesery, with over 149 awards

Brazil has been gaining much abstraction successful the planetary food scene, with producers winning hundreds of prizes successful the world's superior contests. With 149 medals, Cruzília, calved successful 1948 arsenic a tiny stall successful São Paulo’s Municipal Market, is present established arsenic the astir awarded cheesery successful the country.

This twelvemonth alone, 31 medals were won successful nationalist and planetary contests. Last week, UltraCheese products, which see Cruzília, were judged astatine the World Cheese Awards, which gathered implicit 5,000 brands from 46 countries.

The awards ceremonial took spot successful Switzerland, and the food mill brought location 8 medals. There were 2 metallic medals—for the Buffalo Burrata Cheese from Búfalo Dourado and for Cruzília Maturado—and six bronze medals won by labels specified arsenic A Lenda, Azul de Minas, Quark, Santo Casamenteiro, and Queijo Maturado com Mofo Azul e Limão, successful summation to the smoked buffalo burrata.

Three of these cheeses were developed for the variation arsenic portion of a task aimed astatine presenting creations that met the competition's method and sensory criteria.

The dairy was inaugurated successful 1980 successful Cruzília (MG), with facilities successful the aged mill created successful 1920 by Danish immigrants. Located astatine the ft of the Mantiqueira Mountains, a portion considered 1 of the champion terroirs successful the state for good cheeses, the marque combined European techniques, Minas Gerais tradition, and its ain creations, which are present portion of its portfolio.

With a beingness successful 57% of the country's largest supermarkets, according to the ABRAS ranking, Cruzília is portion of the UltraCheese platform, which reached R$ 1.02 cardinal successful gross successful 2024 and brings unneurotic brands specified arsenic Lac Lélo, Búfalo Dourado, and Itacolomy.

Under the enactment of CEO Wagner Brilhante, the radical seeks to grow medium-sized companies successful the agribusiness worth concatenation successful Brazil and South America. “Our ngo is to sphere contented and, astatine the aforesaid time, innovate, offering products that explicit the terroir of Minas Gerais,” says Brilhante.

The portfolio includes products specified arsenic the Exclusive Cheese Collection with Versos de Minas, Santo Casamenteiro, Serra da Mantiqueira, A Lenda, and Azul de Minas cheeses, besides disposable successful fondue versions. The peculiar enactment includes brie, camembert, gorgonzola, emmental, gruyère, gouda, estepe, parmesan, and provolone, arsenic good arsenic fondues. Everyday cheeses—minas, meia cura, mozzarella, prato, and coalho—are offered successful antithetic formats, complemented by pick cheeses specified arsenic requeijão, quark, creme de minas, and butter.

“This year's medals amusement that we person managed to amended technically without losing the property of our cheeses,” says Juliana Jansen, R&D manager.